The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-04-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE EARTHQUAKE AT CHIO.  The people are b•aviuz tTie island as rapidly as possible. The distress is terrible among those reit aiinv. The despatch bat Antelope has let the Berphariss with siu'cie aul flour. A meeting has been held here of the leading merchants to form a Ohio r dief committee. £6.000 was sub.ierihod in the room. The effects of the earthquake were t nfold mnre disastrous than was at first Lelieved. There has bean enormous loss of life. The capital suffered m Thirt., villages are entirely destroyed; 40,000 prople are destitute. They urgently need fool and clothing. The earthquake shocks continue. Fears ere entert lined of the outbreak of epidemics in consequerce of the number of the unburipd dead. The Greek Governmett and citizens are straining every ne rye tt send relief. Ste imers front Greece. Smyrna, and Cnstantinaple with doctsre and various requisites have arrived.  --4rnai activity is dianlayed at Sy la and Athens in sending relief to the sufferers, and large quantities of hlankels. food, and medicine are being chirped from Svra by each simmer. Two hood ed sappers and miners have left the Pii WU in a gunboat in order to bury the dead, as unless this is speedily clone an epidemic is much feared. The les of life by the eavthquake of S inday last is variously estimated at hem 4,000 to 6.000, while more than double that 'lumbar have been injured. Hunilie is of families ars daily leaving the island. _  Mr. (.oschen h•s directed 11I,jor Trotter t 3 proceed to Chic, digtrihute reli4 in sixty villages oil the island. The accounts received here mtimate the number of perscn4 killed by the earthquake at 8.000. At Tchi sine a large number of houses are in ruins, hut only a few pertons have been killed.  The serious illness of Dr. Punshon, the eminent Methodist divine is report .d. One hundred kilogrammes of nitro-glycerine intended for the S. Gothlrd tunnel works have bet n st,len from the stores of Herr R idolf Fecini at Lugane. The Duke of A.,•otyll has resigned the office of L-r 1 Privy Seal. The can e has blen a difference with his colleagues on fp-me of the proviiions of the Irish Laud  John Macdonald, of Edinburgh, has been fined one guinea for altively supp nting his theory that the enumerator had "no right to take the census." The ails On which he relied ecniiyt dot "oaths and curses." Friday night's London Gaz^tte officially annetmes the appointment of Sir He*cu'ei 11,1hinsoti, Sir Evelyn Wood, and Ct-if Justice de Viilar, as the It ,yal Cimuntssionei to inquire into an 1 report upon the affairs of the Transvaal territory.  --W2-e king of Groccr. has appointed Mr, J. W. Benson, of Luigateshill and Old Bond.atreet. Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Itgyal Cceirt. Mr. J, W. Hermon has just completed a Medal of Honour, bearing a most striking head of his Majesty. The shiprm Joh of who tt from Am^ric t ,E•irope doling the oast week amounted t 297,590 qnartrs, rf which 177,500 were for the Unit,rl Kingdom. The isihle anntilv of wheat is now 21,400,000 bushels, and of maze 14,300,000 bushels.  - ALLEGED WIFE MURDER —An inquest was held On Friday, at Liverpool, on the body of Eden McEntee, who was found dead in her room in a stet) of utility with seven incised wounds on the head, eight ribs broken, and her chest injured. Elec husband was committed for trial for wilful murder, . .  Tag