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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7162, 30 October 1884, Page 4

O.NE of our cable messages to-day contains the intelligence that the members of the Afghan Frontier Commission have reached the Helmund where they were met by the native escort provided by the Ameer of Afghanistan, Abdurrahman Khan. The object of the commission of which General Sir Pecer Lumsden is the chief, is, in conjunction with a Russian commission, to mark out and define the boundaries of Afghanistan on the north and As long ago as 1573 the boundaries of Afghanistan were settled by the British Government with Russia, when the Afghan territory between the Oxus to the Heri-Rud was defined as follows : "This internal district of Akoha, Sir-i-Pul, Mairoena, Shibergan, and Andkbj, the latter of which would be the extreme Afghan frontier possession to the north-west, the desert beyond belonging to independent tribes of Turcomans." This boondary baa, however, never been laid down accurately on any map, and the country has not . been examined on the spot with that,viow. This work will now be accomplished by

the Delimitation on ita way to the little known rp £ esent question. Accompanying the 7< mn "> sion are several Bcientific°exDeri-» ?* duty it will be to study the 7& Ose country through which the Comn,^ 9 will pass. _It was originally intSfc the Commisaioners should proceed k! at of Candahar and Giriakh, but the A l * felt diffident about providing for safety by that route, and itV 2s V eir quently abandoned in favour of the 3e " from Quetta via Jluskhi, and the TT»i r ° ate to Herat, and thence to Sarakhf n ? d addition to the native escort i the Ameer the Commissioners V. J" English escort of 400 man, and camp " followers." ***