SERIOUS EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

Evening Star, Issue 7387, 6 December 1887, Page 2

SERIOUS EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

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NAPLES, DypEAIBER 4. (Received December .Q, 1887, at 1 ,ff> a hi,)

l report has been received in this city that the town of Bipjgpapp, ip Calabria, has been destroyed by earthquake. The rescue party have up to the present twenty dead bodies, and fears arc pptertaipcd fojr the safety of a number of the inhabitants wh,o are still missing. flip villages in the yicipity have been jijorp pp Ipap damaged by earthquake. fpisigpan.o is an ioyu'with between 4,000 ap.d 0.f10.0 inhabitants, bpdfc on a }ifgb hill near the junction of the Miicoiie biv.er \vjth %<? Crati (ancient Crathjs) |n Cajabria Citra.j THE WaEotAMELECTIOM.

At yesterday's sitting pi the Court, Wsdfey Symes, J.P., said that he was pbahpw of respondent’s committee at Waverley. tin w#s chairman at the meeting addressed by respou, rit at Waverley. After the meeting he went ppe hotpl and shouted for several friends. He plight have treated people who were not intimate friend?. He yas ap Waverley on polling day, and hoi no doubt spoufed for perhaps halfr»rdogen people fo $9 ftfternflon. He knew the man Gibson who was sprntineer for respondent at Waverley, On the morning after the poll he gave Gibson a cheque for LI, a,s Gibson said he was “ flyblown " over the election, Witness owed Gibson Is for stabling. Gibson repaid tho LI borrowed about the beginning of Isovember. Gibson neyer w&P jn respondent’s employ. Cross-examined i Gibson returned the LI borrowed without being asked for it. When Gibson was appointed scrutineer ho distinctly told him that he was not to get the slightest remuneration. George Gibson, trainer, gave eorroborativo evidence with respect to borrowing LI from last witness and its repayment. George Francis Sherwood, aged twenty, said he did not s'gn a claim to vote. The claim to vote produced was not signed by him. A. H. Levien said he signed the claim to vote produced, but had not been six months in the district, Thomas Armitage, under twenty-one, said he had liis name placed on the roll at his own request, Peter Gowlaud said ho signed an application to register before attaining the age of twentyone, though he was twenty-one previous to polling day. Harris, who was secretary to the Committee at Patea, produced a letter from respondent, in which respondent asked if Mr Ballance’s meeting at Patea had been advertised; if not, he instructed witness to advertise Mr Ballance’s meeting at respondent's expense. After producing two unimportant witnesses thip moraiuj fcfje petitioners closed their case, Jjfr Trovers asjkbd tkc jv'ourt to decide whether it was ppepas^ry ‘tjnn,t Jae should call rebutting evidence o$ fiejrfajn’p,pints which, fie submitted, were not corrupt prftpimes yiihjn the leaning of the Statute, such as treating ftftey tne'boj.fr ( of polling, etc, Mr Bell intimated that he would probably abandon the charge of conveying voters to the poll, paying the station-hand LI for expense incurred in recording his vote, and promising to reinstate Mr Baldwin as custodian of the Patea Hospital. - - Mr Travers intimated that be would put the respondent in the box, and examined hjm as to pertain other alleged charges of bribery, etc. The iGqqrt dopided ■ to> hear argument on the. legal points at the close'bf respondent’s case. Gporg/e JJntohjson, thp rpsporqjiput'fitting' member for Waitotara), was then .called. 11 (Special to toe Star.) WANGANUI, December 6, Tfic case for the petitioner was concluded this morning, and Mr Hutchison is now (2 p.m.) being examined. It is probable that the whole case will conclude to-night or to-morrow morning. The petitioners have abandoned several of the charges entirely, and seem ,to be relying almost wholly on the charges of general treating and treating by agents. The general opinion is that the petition will not be sustained.

Excess of 'Ceremony shows want of bleeding. • ■ That civility is best. which excludes all Superfluous formality.