ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1692, 10 June 1885, Page 3

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

GENERAL LUMSDEN ARRIVES IN LONDON. REPORTED MURDER OP THE AMEER OF AFGHANISTAN. RUSSIA YIELDS THE ZULFIKAR PASS. THE MURDER OF THE AMEER DISBELIEVED. London - , June 6. In the House ol Commons last night, Mr Gla istone stated that England and Russia had come to terms with regard to arbitration ou the Afghan Rentier question, and that both countries wore agreed as to who was to bs appointed arbitrator. June 8. I. i-, curii-ntly reported that an agreement on tlie Russo Afghan frontier question has been virtually arrived at between Great Brit da and Russia, the latter Power having yielded iu her demands for the Zultlkar Pass” lue statement published in a Russian journal to the fdject that the Ameer of Afghani.-tan had been murdered by some oismbei,-. id his suite, has not been endorsed from anv other source, and the news is disbelieved by the authorities here. June?. Major-General Sir Peter Lnmsdcu arrived here to-day from India. He met with an enthusiastic rcoptiou, being warmly chewed by a large crowd assembled to welcome him. Sr Pr-TEttsBUKo, June 0. The Novoc Vremva newspaper publishes a telegram to-day stating that Abdur Rahman Klnn, Ameer of Afghanistan, has been murdered by his suite.