ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 22 April 1885, Page 3

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

MNULM.C; oFFi :AT. STATEMENTS AbOLT Till AaiEFT. ANOTHER ui. .-MAN ADVANCE OTTERED. Si 1 i... r-nrr.r., A pail 1-. It lias tianspUO-i tu.ll . d a ia.o dCSpIUCII to tic Government, Genera i Konjarci; anr.ounce! that when Poni-Dfh .md the p.;sts la me neighborhood vw-ie evacuated Lv the Afghans, and t;.e latter ikd to Herat, ],e Jccmc-d it expedient m place Fenj-Dch under temporary Russian Auudustraiicu. Loxnox, April ]'j. The Stand.a J yesterday states that the Ameer of AtjUanistau is indisposed to paeahis eiaim to Peiij-Deb, and expresses ids belief that everyming demanded by Hus.-da Las boon couecded, except the Zulfikar Pass, which remains Afghan teuitoiy. Sir Gladstone states that an honorable settlement of the Afghan difficulty is probable. General Komaroti admits having received the news of the agreement between England and Russia before the 28th March. It is officially asserted that tie Ameer of ARhanisuu would rather abandon PenjDeh to Russia than permit the Rritish Army to occupy Herat ; and yet the Amter stated on Friday that he would never surrender an inch. Troops from Candahar will reinforce Herat. Genera! Dondonkofi has been ordered to advance from Sarakhs and pursue his inarch dose to Herat. April -20. A number of torpedoes have been procured in Germany. Ine Admiralty i.avo encaged the Orient (Minpanyl stcamm Lusitania a? a cruiser. itiiILOOCEXE. Apid 20. The Governtncui are iu receipt of a telegraphic despatch from ti c Agent-General informing Em that things look more peaceful at Home, iat tint ILO Imperial Government ate not in ;.ny dk,-ue '.elaxiug the military preparations v.Lkh have been going on for tome time pi-;. < •