LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2750, 15 July 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

»~M [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. VOTING the SUPPLEMENTARY CREDIT FOR MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN EVENT OF NON-SETTLEMENT OF AFGHAN FRONTIER QUESTION. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. 3000 ADDITIONAL TROOPS FOR INDIA. THE RECIDIVISTS QUESTION AND THE COLONIES. (Received July 15, 1.30 a.m.) London, July 14. The House of Commons last night voted the supplementary credit asked for by Government, the Rt. Hon. the Minister for War, Mr W. H. Smith, urging that it was needed to complete the necessary preparations, pending a settlement with Russia. Mr Smith added that the present Government were not prepared to accede to the demands made by Russia to their predecessors in office. The Rt. Hon. Robl. Bonrke [Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs] informed the House that so far no arrangement had been completed for arbitration between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question, but that the state of the case put forward was still under discussion between the two countries. Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s steamship Arawa, from Lyttelton, June 6bh, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday evening. Her cargo of frozen meat is in good condition. The mails ex Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamship Clyde, from Melbourne, June 2nd, were delivered to-day via Brindisi. (Received July 15, 2.30 p.m.) July 13. In the House of Commons to-night, during a discussion on the vote credit, the Rt. Hon. W, H. Smith, Secretary for War, stated that the credit was for the purpose of despatahing 3000 additional troops to India, if required. July 14, Evening. The Hon. F. Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in an interview with the Colonial Agents-General, promised to ask Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador at Paris, to continue his efforts for the protection of Australian interests with regard to the recidiviste question. [special to press association.] London, July 10. Sir M, ETicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, does not intend to raise the limit on imported wines beyond thirty degrees. The Federation Enabling Bill will be considered in Committee on the 16th, and probably passed through withoutdebate.

The Opposition are unlikely to oppose the Budget.