RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS.
AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES
SENDING SUPPLIES
A CANADIAN VOTE
THE STATE OF
ST. VINCENT
(Received 8.59 a.m.)
LONDON, May 15
At Mr Chamberlain's request the Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund in aid of the St. Vincent sufferers.
Mr Vanderbilt, Mr Gould, and other millionaires, are sending their steam yachts to the West Indies with provisions for the sufferers.
The Paris newspaper "Temps" states that a hundred thousand people in Martinique need help.
The American Congress vote includes help for the sufferers in St, Vincent. '
The Canadian Parliament has voted £10,000 towards a relief fund for the benefit of the distressed people in Martinique and St. Vincent. *»- The whole of the northern part of the island of St. Vincent is described as a mass of travelling fire.
It is impossible to reach that part of the coast by land or sea.
The Soufriere volcano is invisible
Immense balls of coloured fires -were seen recently to issue from the
crater,
The Kingston town clock stopped at 7.50 on the evening of the disastei.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 115, 16 May 1902, Page 5
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