ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 131, 21 April 1885, Page 3

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

BCJMOUItS OF PEACEFUL SET TLEMENT.

(BBVTBB's TKLEOBIHS.) London, April IP. The Journal de St Petersburg containt a report that the Afghan* intend to revolt in favor of Russia. April 19. Rumours of a peace? A settlement ol th« existing difficulty between England and Russia continue to be rife, but so fai ■othing of a definite natare has traoi pired in regard to the aitaation. St. Pbtbbsbobq, April 17. In the late»t despatch to the Russian Government, Comaroff reports that the Afghans have evacuated all their poita on the frontier, and that the Russian treopfe remain stationer/. Mblbovbub, April 20. The Government are in receipt of a telwftaphie despatch from the Afent General uiforming them that things look Thore peaeefnl at home, but the Imperial Government are not in anj way rrlaiina; the military preparations which have be*n ,<oiag ea for some time past. [HI CITITBD PBBft AUOCIATIOM.J Wkllikotok April 18. The Government have cabled to the Af*.ni-Geieral to procure and at •nee forward 2.000 stand of the lateat military riiea (the Martini* Henry) to the colony, together with all necessary appointments. ■ .. ■ Dvnbdiv, April 18. ▲ crack four inches long was discovered in one of the peven ton gum recently sent liere for 1 defence purposes. '• ' Afckland. April 19. ' The Coptic has been chartered by the Imperial Governmsnt a* a fast cruiser for the New Zealand coasts.