ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1670, 17 April 1885, Page 2

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

FURTHER RUSSIAN HOSTILITIES EXPECTED.

TROOPS TO BE RECALLED To EGYPT.

IjONl'iO.’, . 1111 ii j 1 It is feared that the llm.-d ms v.ill attack Maruchak and Zulliknr. Tbe European I'ri hj i urge lliat !‘rii Bis- _ raarck should im di.-ae in the k-U'uu at of the Russian difficulty.

The Russian squadron statione 1 at Kap’os lias broil ordered to proceed to the Gallic. lu the engagement between tin- Jiii.-shus and Afghans, on the MOlli March, the has of the latter was '.GO killed ifU •! W- 'il'llU'il.

It is currently reported th.d a: agiu meat has been arrived at between the l’o ■q,,i i a q Italian Governments, by which tiic laim country agrees to occupy the u , m i; : .. event of the .British troops in that locality being drafted to India.

In the House of Commons G-diy li <■ bi.'bt Hon \V. E. Gladstone made n shilciacoi p, the effect that the Russian !'’■ i m uile-,. !, ,q renewed its recent assuiancc-; as to the policy of the Government in regard to tim Afghan frontier, and had st led tiiat anv change made by the Russian commander, m the position of the troops near I’enj ihh, would bo contrary to ihe inti ntim-s and orders of ti;o Govemmio-l.

I'he Ameer of Afghanis m v. it! |, u;: l, lb,ndahar on buturda.V next, naca ala dmlan wh it action he iulcudß taking, wit;, 10-g.ct to the Russian encroachment. ihavy hoods in Afghanistan have rendered the un-v, lucnt M troops most difficult. It is announced tiiat the Ih nin?u! ir and Oriental Company's new stenn.-inp M m bii, and another vessel biloii;;i; to one it tic large ocean lines, aro being cquipp.-d to mtvm as tinned cruisers o.i Uiu Australian naval station.

Mri.ii rsNo, April 1 l

The Government 10-day m* m-.i a k-.n.-mu from MrMuir.iy Smith, the Vici-iiau uei.cral, in which he slates that the pros, peels of a peaceful settlement of the Afghan question are very gloomy.