EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10043, 11 January 1909, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

[Bv Elkctiuo TEi.EQßArn,—CoriniQitT.] (PUB PRBBB AsfIOCtATIOH.) Ueccived January 11, at 8.30 a.m. Homo, January 10. There are 11,500 troops at Messina an,i 70J0 at Hoggio, whore tho -publio moneys and uccuniontG are being recovered from the i mils. Stores aro boing withheld from the iiiliabi.'unlfi in order to compel then; to le.wc. Received January 11, at 8.45 a.m. London, January 11. Mr Warner, writing to the Westminster Gazette, says the leading Australian cricketers will bo understood to unduly flatter themselves if they bolicvo that th« (Marylebone Club will mot receive- a team from which they are excluded. He regrets the dispute between tho Hoard of Cricket Control ahd the players. Ho tocognises that the leading |xlayore are perfectly straight in thwir attitude, saying t[iat very probably £6OO would bo initutHdent for tho trip. There wu& liu ciiifiatidu of secret payments. Mexico, January 10: Tho eutiro west eoafit of Mexico wrij shaken by tho earthquake and tho daman* is severe: , ( ■ Jktftinj January 10. It is officially stated in Berlin that the Straits of Mui-.iiu aro again safo for the >iorddotitsohcr-lJoyds steamers which Into ly were ordered to steam west of Sicily. Homo, January 10. It, is probable tiiat Italy will call .-ill the poor orphans of the earthquake' "children of the nation," and that they will be provided for until they come, of ago. Paris, January 10, A bag containing fifteen parcels o( securities valued at £IO,OOO was stoAiii from u railway carriage in Paris.