CENTRAL ASIA—THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION—MR. STEPHEN AND SIR PETER LUMSDEN'S DESPATCH.

HC Deb 28 April 1885 vol 297 c970

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, When Mr. Stephen, who had been sent by Sir Peter Lumsden with despatches to the Foreign Secretary, was likely to arrive in this country?

MR. GLADSTONE,

in reply, said, that he was informed that he was expected in about three weeks from the date of starting. He was presumed to have started on Friday last.