ANGLO-RUSSIAN DIFFICULTY.
Loudon, May 14. Negotiations are still proceeding in regard to the Afghan frontier question. It is proposed that the Russian boundary shall be fixed at Penjdeh, while the frontier of Afghanistan shall not extend "northward of Zulfikar Pass, leaving a ueutral zone between the two territories. May 15. The Standard states that the Hussian Government will not sanction the dralt agreement as drawn up for the settlement of the Russo-Afghan question, and states that parleying has been resumed. Mr Gladstone informed the House that Government was awaiting a reply from Russia in regard to a portion of the Afghan frontier line, which has not yet been delineated. May 16. The Daily News to-day states that the point of difference between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question does not involve an essential portion of the agreement recently come to by the two countries. ! St Petersburg, May 16. It is announced that His Imperial Majesty the Czar has despatched a letter ' of thanks to General Komaroff, together [ with a diatnond-hilted sword.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1342, 19 May 1885, Page 1
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