NEWFOUNDLAND CRISIS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 31, 5 August 1895, Page 2

NEWFOUNDLAND CRISIS.

GEOGRAPHICAL CONGBES. (Per Press Association). \ London. Augu>t 4. The Government abandon the Chitral country west of Panjakakora. Eleven thousand troops hold the route from Pe--1 shawur through to Dir, pending final settlement. The prospectus of the Taitapu Gold Company of New Zealand has been issued wtth a capital of L 170,000. Shares : amounting to 1.125,000 are offered to the public, and this sum has been subscribed. The Geographical Congress will hold its nest meeting at Berlin in 1899. The Prince of Wales yesterday opened at Southampton a new graving dock, whicb is the largest in the world. The Queen invested Sir T. Foweb Buxton, the new Governor of South Australia, with the order of St. Michael and St. George, at Windsor. The Court of Queen's Bench decided the executors of Mrs Francis Tollemacbe were not liable for probate duty in England on £112,000 invested in New Zealand, upon which duty had been paid in that colony. Charles Enson has been appointed commander of the Orlando. Obituary — Joseph Thompson, the explorer. 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. St. John's, August 4 Intense excitement was caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that the Directors of the Union Bank overdrew two and a half million dollars, representing nearly the whole amount overdrawn. Sofia, August 3. M, Matakieff, an intimate firend of M. Stambouloff, has been murdered iv East Roumania.