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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 68, 18 September 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received September 18, 9.30 a.m.) JAPAN AND RUSSIA. TOKIO, 17th September. Japanese journals regret that Russia still discriminates pgainst tho Japanese in Northern Manchuria and Vladivostock. ' A NEW ZEALAND PEDESTRIAN. LONDON. 17th September. Mr. Carter, a New Zealander, is at present in Nigeria. He expects to reach England in December after completing a pedestrian tour of the world. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. LONDON, 17th September. The Durban correspondent of the Daily Mail states that Captain MacFarlane, who died in June last during the campaign against tho Nntal rebels, tvas accidentally killed by a bullet fired by a colonial on the other aido of^ the gorge which separated them. Lieutenant Marshen, of Royston'a Horso, who was mortally wounded on the some occasion, was shot daring a heavy injst,, being mistaken for a rebel In the semi-darkness. > OBITUARY. LONDON 17th September. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester is dead. [The deceased, who was fifty-seven years of age, was naval A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, and also to King Edward' from 1901 to 1902. , Ho served as chief naval transport officer in South Africa.] SWIMMING RECORD BEATEN. LONDON, j.7th September. . Healy won tho 100 nnd 220 yards Invitation Races at .Belfast, beating the Irish records. ANOTHER BANK FAILURE. NEW YOUR, 17th September. The Philadelphia. Trust and Safe Deposit Security Company has failed, with liubilities amounting to £120,000. Ths Public Prosecutor announces that there is evidence of criminal liability. FISHING BOATS, WRECKED. ST. JOHNS, 17tb September. Eleven Newfoundland fishing vessels, whilo homewnrd bound, were totally wrecked nt Belle Isle, off the north-east coast of Newfoundland. The crews landed flafely. GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA. BERLIN, 17th September. - Several German newspapers are publishing an urticle urging reprisals against tho Australian Commonwealth if the 10 p6r cent, preference to British imports is enforced. The article- states that ahippers and exporters expect the Government to apply an autonomous tariff to Australian, similarly to Canadian goods. TRADE WITH CANADA. LONDON, 17th September. The Morning Post states that Gorman | statistics show that German exports to Canada decreased from 38,750,000 marks in 1902 to 20,760,000 mftrke in 1905. During the sumo period exports from Canada to Germany increased from six millions to nine and three-quarter millions.