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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5060, 1 April 1885, Page 3

Afghanistan, of which we are likely to hear a great deal before lodjj, is a country on the north-western frontier of India. It. is rough and billy, being as a rule 4Cooft above the sea. - Among its mountains are the great paises in the Hindu Kush xaonntains. from which India-has been at different times invaded. In 1838 the country was taken, by the British troops, which three years later left it to the native rulers. A second inrasion in 1879 "led to t our holdiDg for a short time Cabul and Candahar, and to our obtaining the chief passes between Afghanistan and India. The country is fertile, but its people like Highlanders, generally, are restlees and fined to control irksome. Its capital is Cabul. There is no central authority there. An Ameer is the ruler, but he can* not control or guide all the various sections of the tribe.—Exchange. Sicimjx Mwri—Welli* "Health Benewer" restores health and vigor, cures' Dytpvpcia, Impotence, Debility. At drugg»«s.—KempIboroe, ?rcner and Co., Agent», Auckland.