EUROPEAN ITEMS.
(“Age" Special.)
(By Txleoraph.) London, May 6,
Colonel Ridgeway, of the Bengal army, succeeds Sir Peter Lnmsden as British representative on the Afghan Boundary Commission at present on the Afghan frontier.
Suakim, May 8
After General |Lord Wolaeley had reviewed the whole of the forces to-day, the Age correspondent had an interview with him, and asked his opinion of the New South Wales Contingent. He stated that he had never inspected a liner body of men, and he only wished the Contingent was ten times as numerous, and added
that he supposed the colonies could, if required, increase the strength of the Contingent to 10,000 men. London, May 10.
The report of the Anglo-German Commission, appointed to deal with the Eng-lish-German claims in the Western Pacific, has been submitted and confirmed by the Governments concerned. It is recommended that Germany and England shall mutually protect each others subjects in the various islands of the Western Pacific, and it condemns the imposition of differential Customs duties, also the sale of arms and alcohol to the natives. The report further contains a re-assertion of the neutrality of the New Hebrides, Friendly and Navigator Islands. Neither Power is to interfere with the independence of Samoa.
It is stated that General Lumsden, the chief of the British section of the Afghan i ejimitation Commission, has been recalled at the dictum of the Russian Cabinet.'
Suakim, May 11. Tlje New South Wales Contingent propose that 100 of their number shall be formed into a Mounted Infantry Corps, fo apt as scouts and do other advance work. Sir Gerald Graham has expressed binnlf M delighted with the proposal*
. . London, May 12. The British Government have now determined to abandon the proposed farther expedition to Khar team. The settlement which has been arrived at between Great Britain and Russia and the consequent improved prospects of peace, have led to a diminution in the preparations for war which, were being made by the British Govetrftnant *
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 18 May 1885, Page 2
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329EUROPEAN ITEMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 18 May 1885, Page 2
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