MEXICAN EARTHQUAKES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 6

MEXICAN EARTHQUAKES.

HEAVY’ LOSS OK LIKE; (Received 8, 1.1 > p.m.) Mexico, .Jlino 7. i*'«»ilovriii*JC one cm; Mjquako 2d() bodies. have ah Cady been taken Iron; tl>o ruins. The damage is heavy in t! • o city and the wires arc down. The c.itv was crowded with people who lin’d gathered to witness the celebration of Madcro’s entry. There wore several seismic shocks. Madero was visibly affected when proelaimod the new 'Liberator amid the Haines resulting from the earthquake. His arrival stilled the panic that followed the first shocks. * LAT EST TELS Gfl AS. .. ~ MEAT EXPORT. (Per Press .Association ) Gisborne. .Line 8. Tiie steamer Onawa leaves TokoiiKiru Bay to-day for London, being the first vessel to leave that port direct for Homo. The meat shipment from Tokomarn for the initial season closing next month is expected to reach LI-2,000 carcases. PROPOSED NAPIER LOAN. (Per Press Association.) Napier, .Line 8. The, Enroll'd'- Conned has resolved to ar.de the ratepayers to sanction a further loan of ultpOOU for tramways, it being l found that the first loan of 1‘35,1100 is insufficient to provide additional power for necessary electric lighting. WAIHi MINERS' DISPUTE. ! (Per Press Association.) ' • • Wailii, June 8. A special general meeting of the .Miners’ and Workers’ Union to consider delegates’ report in connection with, the recent conference between the- mining companies and union, was held last night. The president statue, that the whole question would lie dealt with by the executive of the Uederatkm, and that by the companies not meeting the union in their demands might mean a trouble that would affect tiie whole of the fedora toc. workers of New Zealand. A resolution was carried to the effect that the question be referred to the executive. AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, Juno 8. At a meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce the question, of tho mail connection between Australia and New Zealand was considered. Tlio consensus of Opinion, was that the needs of tho Dominion as a whole would he best, served if the inward European mails, which now leave Sydney for Auckland on Wednesdays, were to leave Sydney for Wellington direct on Mondays. The mails would then in the ordinary course roach Wellington on Friday forenoon, Auckland on Saturday morning, anad Dunedin on Saturday evening, which; would he a' great convenience in every diiection. The Council felt that if such a change in the intor-eolojiial steamer timetables involved any extra expense, tho cost might fairly he met by a subsidy, and to effect this it was decided to ’approach the Government and steamship companies concerned. THE COMMANDANT. (Per Press Association.) , Auckland, Juno 8. Major-General Godley, interviewed, said he had toured pretty well every part of the Dominion and bad bad ample opportunity to judge the physique of tho youth of the country. Ho was very favourably impressed indeed and saw no reason at all for concern about tho physical development of young New Zealanders. Generally speaking they compared very favourably with those of any other country in the world from the point of view of physique.