CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5328, 5 August 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

♦ [B 7 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPTRIQHT.-] [Special to Press Association.] CHITRAL. LONDON, August 3. The Government will abandon the Chitral country west of Panjokora. ' Seven thousand troops hold the route from Peshawur through to Dir, pend- ; ing a final settlement. GOLDSBROUGH AND CO. Messrs Goldsbrougb, Mort and i Co.'s committee proposed that unpaid I calls should carry 4 per cent instead j of 8 per cent. Mr Alex. Young con- ' aiders that the company may rely on an income of £100,000 yearly. QUEENSLAND GOVERNORSHIP. Sir Frederick Napier Broome is mentioned as likely to succeed Sir > H. Norman as Governor of Queensland. THE MAHDI. August 4. Baron D. Laws, military comj mander in Congo, states that Great I Britain and France combined could easily dislodge the Mahdi and free the European prisoners he now has. EGYPT. The Conslantinople correspondent, of the Pall Mall Oazetie states that it is currently reported there that the Knedive has presented the Sultan with half a million sterling in order to enlist the sympathy of Turkey iv the Egyptian question. GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS. The Geographical Congress will hold its next meeting at Berlin in 1899. H.M.S. ORLANDO. Captain Charles E. Enson has been appointed commander of H.M.S. Orlando. OBITUARY. Joseph Thompson, the explorer, is dead, CRICKET. The United Counties Cricket Council has approved of the visit of an Australian eleven next year. The number of test matches is to be limited to three. NEW GRAVING DOCK. The Prince of Wales yesterday opened at Southampton a new graving dock which is the largest in the world. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN , GOVERNOR. The Queen invested Sir T. Fowell Buxton, the new Governor of South Australia, with the Order of St Michael and St George, at Windsor. A NEW ZEALAND PROBATE CASE. The Court of Queen's Bench has decided that the executors of Mrs Francis Tollemache are not liable for probate duty in England on £112,000 invested in New Zealand, upon which duty was paid in that colony. . MURDER. SOFIA, August 3. M. Matakieff, an intimate friend of M. Stambouloff, has been murdered in East Roumelia. CHOLERA. ST PETERSBURG, August 3. Cholera is prevalent in Southern Russia, and upwards of a hundred deaths have been recorded. REFORM IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 3. The Turkish Government has decided to apply its own Armenian scheme of reform to the whole of the Empire. A NEWFOUNDLAND SENSATION. ST JOHNS, August 4. Intense excitement has been caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that four directors of the Union Bank overdrew two millions and a half dollars, representing nearly the whole amount overdrawn. A BANK FAILURE. SOME, August 4. Birged Bros., bankers, Genoa, have failed for twenty million lires. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the principals. AN ANARCHIST BLOWN TO ATOMS. PARIS, August 4. During festivities atDouai in honour of M. Venillemin, manager of the mines, an anarchist wounded him with a revolver, and prepared to throw a bomb. The explosion was fortunately premature, and the assassin himself was blown. to atoms. Ten other persons were wounded. - : . BREAD RIOTS IN PERSIA. . TEHERAN, August 4. Bread riots have taken place at Tabriz, in Persia. The bazaars were closed and troops dispersed the mob, twenty of whom were killed. Their bodies were taken to the Russian Consul, whose protection was invoked.