" AGE" SPECIALS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1342, 19 May 1885, Page 3

" AGE" SPECIALS.

London, May 9. i Colonel Kidgeway, of the Beugal army, succeeds Sir Peter Lumsden as British representative on the Afghan Boundary Commission on the Afghan frontier at present May 10. The report of the Anglo-German Commission, appointed to deal with the Eng-lish-German claims in the Western Pacific, has been submitted and confirmed by the Governments concerned. It is recommended that Germany and England shall mutually protect each others subjects in the various islands of the Western Pacific, and it condemns the imposition of differential Customs duties, also the sale of arms and alcohol to the natives. The report further contains a re-assertion of the neutrality of the New Hebrides, Friendly and Navigator Islands. Neither Power is to interfere with the independence of Samoa. It is stated that General Lumsden, the chief of the British section of the Afghan Delimitation Commission, has been recalled at the dictum of the Russian Cabinet. May 12. The settlement which has been arrived at between Great Britain and Russia and the consequent improved prospects of peace, have led to a diminution in the preparations for war which were being made by the British Government. Sotjakim, May 8. After General Lord Wolseley had reviewed the whole of the forces to-day, the Age correspondent had an interview with him and asked his opinion of the New South Wales Contigent. Ho stated that he had never inspected a finer body of men, and he only wished the Contigent was ten times as numerous, and added that he supposed the colonies could, if required, increase the strength of the Contingent to 10,000 men.