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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1912, 22 July 1886, Page 2

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HOME AND FOREIGN THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. SALISBURY AND lIARTINGTON, HONORS FOR COLONISTS. DILKE DIVORCE CASE. EVIDENCE OF MRS CRAWFORD. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, July 20. In’elligenco is to lianl from Cential Asia that a difficulty has arisen between the British and llassian Commissioners for the delineation of the Afghan frontier, who are now at Khoja Saleh, on the Oxus. The Russian Commissioners claim a tract of fertile cmrPry extending twelve miles along the banks of that river. The demand is objected to by the Bri'ish representatives and the difficulty has been referred by the Commissioners to their respective Governments at St Pete sbuvg, and London

It is announced that Harlington has declined to j oin Salisbury in the formation of a coilition Ministry, but at the same time he intimated that he would accord his support in the House to the Conservative administration.

The Col nists who have received Knighthood and the Companionship of the Order of St Michxel and George will be invested by' the Queen at Osborne on the 22nd August. In the Crawford-Dilke divorce suit Mrs Crawford has testified she was seduced by Dilke, and has detai'ed her adulteries with the corespondent and Captain Forster.