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Waikato Argus, Volume XIX, Issue 2979, 12 September 1905, Page 2

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EARTHQUAKE. Rome, September 11. There are 100,000 roofless at Calabria. Correction: The Government grant to the sufferers was £IO,OOO, not £10,000,000. King Emmanuel has given £4OOO. It is feared that 2000 were killed. King Emmanuel and his Ministers have gone to Calabria. IMPERIAL POLITICS. London, September 11. Mr Gerald Balfour’s action in appointing a committee to obtain information for the guidance in the Government in framing the Redistribution Bill is interpreted to mean that there will be no General Election in 1905. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS. Paris, September 11 The 12 kilometres swimming race was won by Paulus, with Burgess second, Holbein third, and Kellerman next. Billington, while leading, retired with cramp. Cold affected all the English swimmers. DISCOVERY OP CARBINES. St. Petersburg, September II The Customs officials have discovered GCO carbines of Swedish manufacture, with bayonets and 120,000 cartridges, on Barren Island, near Kemi, in the Gulf of Bothnia. BARON KOMURA ILL. Washington, September 11 Baron Komura has been taken suddenly ill with an intestinal complaint, but the doctor hopes that an operation will be unnecessary. ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY. London, September 11 The Morquis of Londonderry, speaking at Stockton-on-Tees, announced the details of the Anglo-Japanese treaty, which will be published shortly, CRUISER AGROUND. Singapore, September 11. The German cruiser Seeadler grounded on the Kent rocks near here.