CABLEGRAMS. ENGLAND & RUSSIA. FRESH RUSSIAN DEMANDS ENGLISH MILITARY PRECAUTIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS. ENGLAND & RUSSIA. FRESH RUSSIAN DEMANDS ENGLISH MILITARY PRECAUTIONS.

MUSCOVITE CLAIMS. London, May 21. The Standard stat.es that Russia claims Geruk, a town about 110 miles from Penjdeb, in a northerly direction. Slig also objects to England fortifying Herat, and requires that the Afghan frontier shall remain unfortified. TROOPS TO BE SENT TO HERAT. The Ameer hn9 sent a heavy battery of artillery t© Herat. LoxDOti, May 21. It is believed that the detention of the Guards for orders at Alexandria, is \n some way connected with the negotiations now in progress between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question. It is understood that the New South Wales contingent will not proceed direefc to Australia, but that the transport will call at Alien to receive any further orders that may be necessary. London, M.-iy 21. In the House of Commons to-day the Marquis o-f Hartington, Secretary of War Departmeut, announced, in rej/y to a question, that Her Mnjeety's Government did not deem it fit, at the present juncture, to explain the reasons why the Guards had been detained at Alexandria to await orders, MASSING OF BRITISH TRO< PS Lord Harrington added that the mas . sing of the troops recently employed m ! the Soudan, with a view to theii being available for service elsewhere, was being continued. (jHadstoae informed the House that - negotiations had been carried on with the Sublime Porte for a Turkish occupation of Souakim, but that no other power haH been invited to ocoupy thafc place. Frozen moafc-, ex steamer Potftsi, is aellihg at 5 1 per lb. Liout. Brown, of the N.S.W,. Con r ! tingent, had dieJ from fever.