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Melbourne, May 4.
Government are m receipt of a teleg .am from the Victorian Agent General, Mr Murray Smith, to the effect that there are indications of a slightly more peaceful nature observable at Home.
CONITANTINtfPLE, April 29.
The European Powers are urging upon the Porte the desirability of maintaining strict neutrality in the event of the outbreak of war between England and Russia. The Turkish Government,, however, are increasing defensive works on the Dardanelles and at the Rapea on the Bosphorous.
London, May 2.
The 44 Daily News " to-day states that the prospects of peace are improving, and that the Government has learned that the Czar is eauestly desirous of peace. Jt lurther states that the Czar has expressed his willing less to submit to arbitration the question, whether the despatch sent to him by the British Government on March 17th has been miseonstiued by him or not.
Suakim, May 3. General YVolseley arrived here to-day from Dongola.
London, May 5.
During the course of a long and animated debate in the House of Commons to-day on the vote for a credit of i 11,000,000 for military purposes intreduced by Gladstone, Lord Randolph Churehill characterised the agreement come to with Russia in the strongest tarras, as a cowardly surrender of Englands rights.
The vote was finally adopted by the House, Gladstone consenting to a discussion of the policy of the Gove.jment being fixed for Thursday next.
May 4.
In the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, announced that England and Russia had come to a mutual agreement to submit to arbitration the reeent Peajdeh incident, and to eonduct negotiations for the delimitation of the Afghan frontier line in London. Lord Granville further added that the oasis of Penjdeh would meanwhile be considered as neutral territory.
Lord Granville, speaking at the annual banquet at the opening of the Royal Academy Exhibition, expressed a confidant hope that peaee would be maintained between England and Russia.
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 221, 9 May 1885, Page 2
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