HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12602, 19 September 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

A LONG TRAMP. LONDON, September 17. Carter, the New Zealander, is at present in Nigeria. He expects to reach Englanel in December, after completing a pedestrian tour of the world.

SWIMMING. Healy won the 100 yds and 220 yds Invitation Swimming Races at Belfast beating the Irish records.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL CHICHESTER Tho'death is announced of Rear-Ad-miral Sir Edward Chichester. [Rear-Admiral Sir Eelward Chichester was bom in 1849, and was made C.M.G. in ISill), and CB. in 1900. Ho was Naval A.D.C. to tho late Queen Igoo. 1901, and to tho King from 11)01-02, when he was m~.de a rear-admiral. He was chief transport officer during the South African war.]

GANG OF COINERS BROKEN UP

PARIS, September 17. Tho police havo broken up a gang of a hundred international coiners in Paris, arresting fifty-five of them. Documents found showed that their ramifications extended to Dresden, London, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Chicago, and the Argentina. Many young students were employed to pass the coins.

RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA. TOKIO, September 17. Japanese journals regret that Russia still discriminates against the Japanese in Northern Manchuria and Vladivostok.

EARTHQUAKES IN SICILY. (Received September 18th, 10.1(3 p.m.) ROME, September 18. Earthquakes occurred in tho province of Palermo Many walls cracked. A panic occurred at Termini Imcreso (a coastal town twenty miles from Palermo) owing to fears of an eruption of Stromboli.

GERMANY IN PERSIA. TEHERAN, September 18. Tho Shah has sanctioned tho opening of a German bank at Teheran. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, September 18. Germany will shortly launch a 656----ton thirty-knot turbine destroyer, equipped with one twenty-pounder and three six-pounder guns.

[Thero aro already in the German Navy three destroyers with a speed of thirty knots. Tlie significance of the message is the adoption of the turbine engines for destroyers. Germany only recently decided to introduce turbines into the Navy, her policy being to wait until England had experimented with them. England has over sixty destroyers with a sneed of thirty knots, while a class of 800 tons and a speed of thirty-three knots, and one vessel of thirty-six knots are now building. The twenty-pounder of the new German vessel as the largest gun to bo placed on a destroyer, the largest British gun being a twelve-pounder.]

THE FRENCH NAVY. PARIS, September 18. M. Thomson, French Minister of Marine, has ordered tho sale, or placing in a special reserve of all warships of insufficient fighting value.

THE ARMY REDUCTIONS. LONDON, September 18. The War Office, with a view to reducing the Royal Engineers, has suppressed the continuance of service beyond the period of twenty-ono years. Those who have already completed that period will receive five months' notice.

DEATH OF "A MAGISTRATE. The death is announced of Mr Carew, Magistrate, of Fiji. THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS.

(Received September 18th, 11.35 p.m.) ROME, September 18. A feature of the International Peace Congress at Milan is tho representation of tho Berlin Work mens' Syndicate, comprising 125,000 members. The French delegates will hold a demonstration in honour of the event.