THE EARTHQUAKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2402, 18 January 1909, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE.

PROPERTY RECOVERED AT MESSINA. THE MANSION HOUSE FUND. United Fxiess Association. Copyiughi ROME, Jan. 15. Troops at Messina' fruitlessly woi’kthree days at a place where cries for help were heard, and then were silont. 'Three million pounds sterling worth .. of property lias been recovered, also Greek sculpture and pictures .from the . museum, and duplicates'of the Civil Register. LONDON, Jan. 15. The Mansion House Fund has reached £IOO,OOO. THREE MORE RESCUES. ALIVE AFTER NINETEEN DAYS’ BURIAL. (Received Jan. 17, 4.30 p.m.) ROME, Jan. 17. Rescuers at Mess-ilia found under the ruins yesterday a boy, who told them that his sisters, twenty and twelve years old, were also alive. Both were forthwith extricated. All had subsisted for nineteen days .on onions, wine, oil, dried figs, and water. Their mother had been crushed to death, and the father is in America. Many bodies are still lying unburied in the streets, and the odour is terrible, though immense quantities of disinfectants are arriving daily and are actively used. GISBORNE RELIEF FUND. The following subscriptions for the relief of sufferers by the Italian earthquake have been received by Messrs Vita Bros., who, acting under the Italian Consul at Wellington, have had charge of the local list:— Vita Bros. £2 2s, Sympathiser 10s 6d, Sympathiser 2s, Sympathiser 10s 6d. F. Harris £1 Is, T. C. Cox 2s 6d, J. Martin 10s, A. Zachariah TOs, A. C. Neill ss, Sympathiser 2s 6d, J. McKee 10s, R.T.S. 2s 6d, H. 2s 6d, B.S.C. 2s 6d. C.E.C. 4s, E. F. Stucky ss, Sympathiser ss, E.H. 2s 6d, A.W. 4s, S.M. 2s 6d L.A.E. 2s 6d, G.H. 2s 6d, Robb Bros. ss, Friend ss, W. Taylor 2s Gd T.H.G. 2s 6d, Sympathy 2s 6d, I 2s 6d, E.C. and Son ss, D. Robb ss, Friend 2s 6d, J.H.M. ss, A.T.R. ss, G.D.R. 2s.