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Southland Times, Issue 4187, 30 November 1881, Page 2

The Earthquake in Italy.— The destruction caused by the earthquake in the Abruzz' far exceeds auy thing that was indicated by the first news that reached Rome. The Archbishop of Chie'i, appealing in piteous terms for help, writes, says a Rome correspondent, that the disaster can only be compared to that of Cassaraicciola. More than a thousand houses have been pronounced uninhabitable, and the remainder are more or less fissured. The churches left standing are in a tottering condition, and the religious services have to b 3 celebrated in the open air. The Archpriest of Orsogua writes that the ruin is iudesciibable. It almost exceeds anything recorded in the annals of history; even the Cyclopean walls are in many cases fissured. The Commission of Sucuour reports that of the 1810 houses in the commune, seventy-nine must be entirely or in s;:eat part demolished, and CIS have been rendered uninhabitable, without taking into account the chinches, which are all in a condition unsafe for public worship. Consequently, four-fifths of the population, which numbers about 7000 souls, are without shelter. In the meantime, the commandant of the 37th and OSth Regiments has sent 300 tents to their assistance, and urgent appeals for help towards providing necessities for the wretched sufferers and repairing the Jess damaged houses as far as possible before the autumnal rains set in are being made. All this was anterior to the renewal of the shocks at Castel Frentano, followed by a serious landslip, the second that had takcu place there. Very little is known bore of the formation of the ground on which that village stands, or rather stood, but from the brief description received it appeared to have bceu a kind of shelf, a portion of which gave way .through a fissure made by the earthquake some seventy metres lower down on the hillside. The actual loss of life seems to have been comparatively small. Anr,iHCAS"WAr,TH am "VV"ATOHE.swerca warded the Onh Two First Prizes at the Melbourne Li tcruational Exhibition, 1880-1, being Higher A ivards ' thairauy other exhibitor's watches received,— AOVT