A PEACEFUL SOLUTION AGAIN PROBABLE. ENGLAND MAKING CONCESSIONS. Lord Dufferin at Lahore. CRUISERS FOR THE PACIFIC.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1994, 18 April 1885, Page 2

A PEACEFUL SOLUTION AGAIN PROBABLE. ENGLAND MAKING CONCESSIONS. Lord Dufferin at Lahore. CRUISERS FOR THE PACIFIC.

Offers of Volunteers. ASSISTANCE FROM PERSIA. [.SPKCIAL TO l"RI-->.s 1-.-.OCI \TlO\\] T.nvnoN. Ann] 1 .">.

Subject to Gener.il KomarofV not advancing, the b.isi-, of the Aflgh.in frontier delimitation will be agreed on, and Panjdeh vv ill be ceded to Russia — the Ameer consenting.

[hKUTKr's TKLKrtR VMS.] | Bomisvy, April 15. Earl Duff'erin, the; Viceroy, who is now returning fiom Kawul Pindi to Calcutta, -was to-day presented at Lahore with an address from the local Municipal Board. In replying to the same, His Excellency took occasion to say th.it the dominion* of the Ameer of Afghanistan h.i\e been the scene of an unpro\oked attack on the part of the Russian forces, and he rejoiced to find that the princes and people of India were rallying to the British standard. It was impossible, His Excellency added, to for-,ee the end of the present crisis, but if 'war icsulted, it would be in despite; of the efforts of modulation on the part of England.

London, March IG. The P. and 0. Company's steamer Valetta will also be equipped for service in Australian waters. It is expected that the Admiralty will charter one of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers, piobably the Rimutaka or Kaikoura, as a cruiser. It has been decided to equip fifteen fast cruisers, which are to be stationed at the most tioquented ports in the e\ent of an outbreak of hostilities \\ ith Russia. The Black Sea is choked with vessels. The Volunteer Reserve in India is .10,000 moil. The otter made by the Canadian (Government in March last, to send MOO men to the Soudan, has been lenewed, but this time the offer is for ser\ ice in Afghanistan. The Shah of Persia otters England the assistance of forty thousand t loops.

London, April IG. The Daily Telegraph's Vienna correspondent states tint the Russian reply to England .says that war would be deplorable, and hopes that prompt arrangements will be arrived at for the pacific solution ot the difficulty. Jt is .stated that in answering the Russian despatch, the British Cabinet gladly accepted the terms of communication. Stocks are rising.