The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1538, 22 April 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1885.

The prosp«*ct,9 of a peawfni H«ttlenn»nt of the Ant»lo- Russian difficulty have again become clonderl, aad it really begins to look as if there is no escape from war It appears that within th" last Any or fw«» tbf Ei ijHsh G >Vfin»nvnt; have »fte«*iv*»<l h eommnniration ft'Oin the British Commissioner in Afghanistan, tli»- purport of which Mr GlaHstoTjH felt it itienmbent to wifcliold frnm Pa -liament T»«* ex<nse offered 1»y th^Premi-r to tV H >us- of Commons for thf suppression of its co.iteiit* was that the coiniininicafcinii was not a reply to the n'.rthorainlom afldr»-»sed to Sir Pinter Lnmm) n by the Cabinet. It wa« hardly to !«• in th« present »en»itive condition of pnUic feeling at Home on the subject that this explanntion -would be accepted ag suffi.-innt. and Mr Gladstone ha« therefore just said enough to 10 kin 1 public alarm. The information a!so comeg that the Oovernment will ask Parliament for a credit of aix millions to defray the military expenditure now in |iro<srresß. and flrtW th*t the Orient uteamcv Rf»«p*.t,ft. has l>«^j as an rt"-'n'<! «vnispv for the China station; a::H the laisitani'i for siinilni 1 service it. Au^tralinii wateis. N-^otiatio.is are also in pioij! «s forfliff'UioltHseoi'rharter oft.heN»-'v Z^ilai'd stoamer Rotomohana for a lik- purpose. Further than this we have the significant announcement that the Russian Baltic fleet ig now retidezvousing at Constadt and making active preparations for s>a. All tin* looks eminently war like, and conpleil with the statement i«st mft.le to Par liament by Mr Gladstone may be taken to provide ample food for the tlarmist.