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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 98, 19 October 1894, Page 2

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THE PAMIRS. THE NILE PROVINCES. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.. THE AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY. REPORTED DEATH op THE AMEER (PKR PBR8» ABBOCIATIONI St. Petersburg, October, 17. The recall of Colonel Yanoft from the Pamirs has been ordered by telegraph in order to avoid giving offence to England. Washington, Oct. 17. Senator Bayard, speaking at Wilmington, paid a remarkable tribute to the good qualities and friendliness of the English. London, October 18. The Ruapehu arrived at Plymouth today with her frozen meat in good order. The Government is reinforcing Colonel Colville, who is preparing for an effectual occupation of the Nile provinces. The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 98,100,000 bushels. At the meeting of Dalgety and Co., the Chairman slated the advances npon station property amounted to £4,260.000. It was intended in future to increase the •mount of invested r^serva. Business was increasing, Terminable debentures to the amount of £150,000 were created, it was intended not to issue stock except at 3g per cent. Mr Lees, Conservative, succeeds Viscount Bury, at Birkenhead, defeated Mr W. Lever, Liberal, by a majority of 106. Mr M. VV. McEwan, chairman of MeEwan and Co , Limited, speaking at the annual meeting, said he believed the bottom of the Australian crisis was touched and they might reasonably look for better times. Vienna, October 17. The Austrian Budget, including Hungar* , shows a surplus last year of nearly £5,000,000, an amount never yet equalled. It is intended to nationalise the southern railways and make the manufacture of spirits a Government monopoly. Rome, October 18. The Italian Premier has telegraphed that the honour bestowed on the composer Verdi by enrolling him in the French legion of Honour has opened up the way to a union of the hearts of the two nations. Calcutta. October 17. News from Simla does not confirm the reported death of the Ameer. A report is current among the natives at Lahore that the Ameer is dead, and that with his last words he exhorted his son Habibulla to remain friendly to the English.