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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3150, 30 March 1909, Page 5

Probably the largest load of woo ever carried by a wagon team ! oh eight horses in Otago passed througa Cromwell recently from Mount Pise Station. It consisted, says tnd "Argus," of sixty bales of scour© wool weighing 7 tons 4 cwt. At the present time (says a London paper), considerable speculation is rife as to the amount of the bill Italy will have to pay for the earthquake disasters. A probable estimate of the capital loss caused by the destruction of buildings is something over £4,000,000. So far,as personal property is concerned, it should be borne in mind that Messina and Reggio were not conspicuous in the matter of funded or movable proparty. Messina held the twentieth and lieggio the fifty-ninth place in the scale of funded wealth. But more than half these securities are registered, and so their disappearance means no loss. Furthermore, the State i& arranging to apply the value of the lost bearer securities whose ownership cannot be established, together with the property devolving upon the State by the death of all the heirs of a*'patrimony to the for .nation of a fund for the aid of the children orphaned by the disaster.