VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8007, 19 December 1905, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

KAIHKH AM) JAPS. '■" BBRLIN. Dec. 17. On thousand] seven liundml and eighty-.seven Japanese prisoners, many of them wounded, arc passmg through Berlin en route from Russia to Japan- The Kpixcr sent General Ton Piesscn with gift* of chocolates for the men end -bouquets of chryaautheums for the officers. THE BAMEROOXS. I BERLLS\Sx-c. 17. i It was dteitvil in a debute in the XBeichstag that! Captaiji Bcsscr had (allowed 60 native carriers in the Ctoncroona to die of hunger, and orowred any Becking loud in the wood to *i> shot. Beaser was «entcnced to •oven "months' imprisonment, but the lentenceVwas remitted *and Besser reinstated,' . TOWKSVItiLE, Dec. 17. Tte wUamer Taanan. from China, proceeded direct to .Sydney. There is A case of stnaH-pox aJioard.

VICTORU RIVER ' FULLER PARTICI'LAFtS ' PORT DARWIN, Dec. VIS. The cither whiles strongly objectotl to Bradshaw knocking the irons off the blacks. , After some altercation Bradshaw 'got his own way. The party then went to sleep, and apparently no watch was kept. Late in the \cvening "BoWfoy." a Mack boy, who escaped, saw the prisoners kill Skeahan ami Dannock, and almost simultaneously KggerofTo oinl a native hi ehc engine-room were killed. }Vadshaw, awakened by the noise, iras struck down by a tomahawk. "Bohby" was twelve nights reaching the station, which places the date of the.tn»iwly approxinral.'l.v as Not. 26.