RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
(SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSSOCL4TION.) (ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — CDPYHI OUT) London, March 29. The Channel Fleet has returned sud- v denly to' Sheerness. In ignoring (?answering) Earl Granville's despatch on March 16th on the Afghan frontier question, the Bussian Government makes counter proposals. The Novoe Yremva considers that Australia will form an imDortant sphere for Russian cruisers. . The same paper also advocates the establishment of Russian Consuls m ' the Paoific. Nine ironclads, 24 gunboats, and 36 torpedo boats, are being equipped m the English dockyards. They are intended for service m the Baltic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 101, 1 April 1885, Page 3
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