VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[1-UEBS ASSOCIATION. I (Received December 18, 8.24 a.m.) JAPANESE PRISONERS. BERLIN, 17th December. Ono thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Japanese prisoners, many of whom are wounded, are passing through Berlin en route from Russia to Japan. Tho Kaiser sent General yon Plessen with gifts of chocolate and cigarettes for the men and chrysanthemums for the officers. ACCIDENT TO THE KING. LONDON, i7th December. While King Edward was shooting at Welbeck, Earl do Grey shot a pheasant, which struck Ilk 'Majesty, stunning him for a uhort time. No ill effects followed. TEXTILE INDUSTRIES. LONDON, 16th December. The Tariff Commission has issued a report on the textile industries. In regard to hosiery, practically all the witnesses dwell on tho serious' restriction to trade caused by the loss of foreign markets. Manufacturers of fancy hosiery and underclothing state that they are holding their own in Australia. THE PRIVY COUNCIL. LONDON; 16lh December. The Times, in emphasising tho need for roforming the Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council, says :— Tho bulk of the appeals oinunato from self-governing communities. They often involve settlement of disputes of profound interest locally -and mostly from decisions given by judges trained as efliciently as those of tho Motherland. THE PRICE OF COPPER. NEW YORK, 16th December. Mr. Lawson, a, Boston financier, has lost £680,000 in an attempt to reduce the price of copper, Ho intends to ; stake his fortune in the effort to bring the price to the metal's normal value CANADA AND JAPAN. OTTAWA, 16th December. Early inclusion within the Anglo-Jnp-aneso commercial treaty of 1894 will give Canada most 'favoured treatment in Japanese- markets. Japan secures corresponding benefits, notably cessation of tho .harassing nnti-Japaneso legislation passed in British Columbia. AN OVERLOADED STEAMER. SYDNEY, 16th December. Tho uteamer Libertus, flying the German flag, was yesterday ordered not to sail, as she was loaded to ovor tho rogulation load-line. The captain, however, put out to sea early this morning without tho services of a pilot. CASE OF SUPPOSED SMALLPOX. MELBOURNE, This Day. Tho steamer Asinan, from China, proceeded direct' to Sydney. She lias a case of supposed smallpox on board. In addition to several puro-brod sheep, tho steamer Tongnriro brought from London a largo consignment of Hungarian partridges and a. number of ducks, pigeous, and fowls. Tho putridgos, which total about 150, are consigned to Mej,sis. Pino and Co., of Christchurch. About 80 or 90 died 'on the voyage outj.