BRITISH AND FOREIGN
IBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] (Special to Press Association-! BANK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. LONDON, July 10. The shareholders in the Bank of South Australia have paid ,£270,000 out of the <£330,000 due for the last call. AN AUSTRALIAN AUTHORESS. Miss Agnes Murphy, of Melbourne, has sold to Routledges her Australian novel on high terms. MILITARY APPOINTMENT. Major Wiison, of the Argyle Highlanders, has been appointed Commandant in West Australia. ITALIAN OFFICERS ENTERTAINED. The officers of the Italian squadron, on returning from Kiel, were entertained at Plymouth. THE RAILWAYS CONGRESS. At the general request of the Railways Congress, Mr Eddy will ascertain the experience of light railways with regard to the carriage of produce. Mr Eddy daily met numerous American experts, and discussed with them all the latest inventions, not only in railway matters, but those including grain elevators, in respect of which Odessa, in Russia, is said to be beat supplied. LORD BRASSEY. July 11. Lord Brassey, Governor of . Victoria, in replying to the toast of his health at a iarewell banquet, said, in referring to the colonies, that it was always the essential duty of the Mother Country to give colonial products free and full access. OHITRAL. The Morning Post states that the Government has decided to retain control of Chitral, in deference to the advice of the Viceroy and other officials in India. LORD HOPETOUN.
Lord Hopetoun, late Governor of Victoria, haa had conferred on him the freedom off the city of Edinburgh; At the ceremony to-day, in reply to the honour done him, Lord Hopetoun congratulated Lord Rosebery on his action in ceasing to make Governorships party appointments, and in that direction he thought he had displayed great strength, and shown an example to his successors. A GERMAN DEMAND. BERLIN, July 11.
The German fleet is assembling off Tangier to enforce a German demand for compensation for the murder of a German subject.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10703, 12 July 1895, Page 5
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