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POSTAL DEMANDS. THE BANK OP SOUTH AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND HEMP. ABEEST OF RUSSIAN STUDENTS. [united press association.] Received October 17, 1 a.m. London, October 16. A commission consisting of delegates from the four countries interested m Pamir Plateau, Central Asia, will probably proceed thsre for the purpose of delineating the various spheres. If the Salonica route is adopted as an alternative route for the Indian and Australian mails,- the English Postal Department will insist on a saving of time and cost m transit, and expects the service to carry mails at cost price. Ben Tillet expresses approval of the employers' scheme with regard to labor, provided that the suggested pensions are made retrospective. The meeting of shareholders of tha Bank of South Australia was very animated. Hr Babbage declared that the local directors were useless, and he characterised the whole management as thoroughly bad. Another shareholder complained that four of the directors of the Bank only held fifty shares each. Mrs Bernard Beera proposes to make a theatrical tour of Australia m the spring. For Now Zealand hemp there is a weak demand. Fine dressed is quoted at £24 10s per ton ; fair quality £21 103. St Petersburg, October 15. Five hundred students, who took part m the recent outbreak against the Czar at Kiev have been arrested.