THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 27 April 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER.

CITIZENS WORKING LIKE NAVVIES.

Receired Apri 25, 9.28 a.m. NEW YORK, April 28. I The Mayor of San Francisco pro • tests agaiust the military compelling the citizeus to labour like navvies iu the streets. The relief fund amounts to £3,oo'\ooU sterling. THE SONOMA'S MAILS. Received April <56, 9.29 a.m. SAN- FRANUISOO, April 25. The Sonoma's mailu have been diverted to the Vancouver route. The sailing of the sonoma has been indefinitely postponed. GIFT FROM THE EMPRESS DOWAGER. Received April 26, 20.30 a.m. PEKJLN, April 25. The Dowager Empress of* China has forwarded £30,000 sterling to the sufferers by the disaster in i San Francisco, in addition to a large sum for the Chinese victims. ' PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIAL MELBOURNE', April 26. , . A cable message from New York advises an advance of all building material, owing to the re-building in San Francisco. ' ! (i " REPORT FROM NEW ZE ALAND AGENT. WELLINGTON, April 26. Mr Stevenson Smith, the New Zealand Government aeent at Sao Franoicso, oafcles to the Premier as follows:—"Oakland, Wednesday ril ft h,t. —Three-quarters of- San Frnneisoo hns been destroyed; many lives lost; two hun'dred million dollars' worth ' of property'was destroyed. All our Government records have been' burned."

AUOKLANQ RELIEF COMMITTEE, • ■ AUCKLAND, April 26. 1 At a meeting of the Sah Franoisco Relief Committee it was resolved—"TJtjat, in view of President Rooae- . velt's declaration that outside help ' ,was not required, the Committee express profound regret that the op> portunity of exprWing practical sympathy, with the sufferers by the disaster has not been afforded us, and, that the subscriptions be, as far as possible, > returned to the subsori-, •bers." i • THE DESPATCH'OF MAILS.' Received April 27, 12.22 a^ro, SYDNEY, April 26, Sp'reokles has cabled that all-the officials connected with the Ooeanic Company' in 'Frisco are safe, and ' that the States railways are intact, There will be no difficulty in the despatch of the [mails. INSURANCE LOSSES. k. •' . ' » .» i i i "ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN £30,000,000 AND £40,000,000. Received April 27, 12.18 a.m. NEW YORK, April 26, , The insurance losses at San Francisoo are estimated at' between t thirty and forty million sterling, falling upon one hundred and seven companies. > New wharves depots and water front have been planned, costing five million sterling, ,: -