ITALY'S VISITATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 318, 8 January 1909, Page 2

ITALY'S VISITATION.

i 1 SHOCKS CONTINUE. AN AHUimsHOr JIESCUIiD. Jiome, January 0. .Ml tin- lliili-hllls |,cii(li«l. 'i.uipiirury/ expedients lire being employed In repine liio lighthouses ami »ij{iiil stations in the Strait* of Alc<sw.i. Kiirlhi|iiiiki< shock, continue. 'l'lii' Willie unci lYucess of t'atellacci, who were buried in the mills at Ales..mi in,- still alive. Tim Archbishop of .Messina, who was rcpnricd to lie dead, has been rescued Horn llie ruins. ll.' mounted the roof oi ,i building to give Ilia benediction to lln dying and dead still under the ruins.

•MUHJi KKSCUI& , uisuvkmhxt ok puhlic skjiviujs TUJi i'liOl'l.E CALMKIi. lieccived 7, 11.110 p.m. Koine, January 7. 'J'e.i .persons ivere rescued from the niiis ol Messina on Tuesday. Several business tirms liavu recovered heir securities uiul moneys from the u ins. The public services are improving and he people are calmer. Til K IIKIJKK ITXDS. Brisbane, January 7. The (loveninienl has cabled JCIOOO to the Italian fiirthijuiike fund. lieceived 8, 0.50 u.iii. London, January 7. The Mansion House fund is now £06,1)00. The American fund amounts to XSOO.OOU, including New York's contribution of £50,000. The citizens of Tokio Bubscribvd £BOOO.

THE CO.\L\fUXWEALTH GRANx'. 1 - 4 • JtiLlJulJ Itcccvcd 8, 0.20 a.m. Melbourne, November 7, Tlic Inderal Government aus granted .1:10,000 to the Italian earthquake fund. NEW ZEALAND'S CONTUIBUXION. ACKNOWLEDGED 11Y ITALY. By Telegraph.—Press Association* Wellington, Last Night. New Zealand's contribution of £SOOO to the relief fund in connection with the Italian cartiupiake has bceu ueknowlodged iu the following terms by the Italian Government to the High Commissioners: "In the name of the Italian Government a<ut the nation I convey our lively thanks to the Government of i New Zealand for their prompt sympathy | in the calamity of Italy and for their conspicuous bounty on behalf or the vie* iims of the disaster.—M. Giolitti (President of the Council of Ministers), Rome.