AFFAIRS IN AFGANISTAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3241, 9 December 1880, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN AFGANISTAN.

The news from this quarter is not bo assuring as could be wished, ar there are fears that Ayub Khan may again prove troublesome. That worthy is now at Hciat. lustead of being refused admission to that city, aud conipeiled to take refuge iv Persia, his old subjects have welcomed him hct.3, and Southern Afghanistan is in a stat«-of nervous expectation that he may return again. This feeling appears to have taken such deep root that many of the pople around Kandahar have refraiued from sowiug their laud, and weare told the Sirdars iv Zemindawar have forbidden the despatch of supplies to the southern capital. Then, again, it is thought that Ayub's nomination of His him Khan ns Governor of Farrali and of Mohammed Husaum as Governor of Subzawar bodes no good to either the British or to Abdul Rahman, The last-named Sirdar was once Governor of Jellalubad, and lio leader ever displayed bo much inveterate aniniosity as he towards the invader. Hashitn \ H han is a disappointed man. When General ltoberts was in Kabul, considering which of the Afghan Princes might be deemed a suitable candidate for the throne, Hashim was a prominent aspirant for that positioil, Immediately all prospect of his selection vanished he disappeared from the capital, and openly ranged himself against us. Ho is now safely out of arm's length of tho small force that has boon left at Kandahar; lie possesees great wealth, and from Farrali he will be ablo to intiigue not only in Kandahar, but among the chrouic malcontents at Ghuzni, and probably likewise at Kabul. It is, therefore, thought that beyond the Hclmund there are elements of great danger to the future peaco of Afghanistan. The snake which General Roberts caut-ht at Alazra has only been scotched, not killed. It ia contended that, though tho English forces won a great victory, it did not wipe out the memory of Ayub's brilliant success tit Kushk-i-Nakhud. Even the Wali is said to have lost confidence, and it is doubted whether under any pressure ho would resume his functions.