THE 'FRISCO DISASTER.
AN INSURANCE COMPANY COLLAPSES. Received Slay 8, 12.20 a.m. LONDON, May 7. The New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that as a result of the San Francisco disaster the Trades Insurance Company has collapsed. All the assets are required to meet claims amounting to £750,00.0. WELLINGTON, May 7. The Premier, to-day, received the following cablegram from Mr Hugh Craig, an ex-Mayor of San Francisco, in reply to a cabled inquiry addressed to him:—Mr Spreckles is providiug for *;he transportation of all New Zealanders to Auokland. I am un«ware of injury to any New Zealanders. Six square miles of San Francisco is in ruins. It will take four months for the railroad to bo completed, and ten thousand men to remove the debrh. A new city will bo ereated immediately.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8134, 8 May 1906, Page 5
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134THE 'FRISCO DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8134, 8 May 1906, Page 5
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