FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3377, 24 July 1885, Page 3

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOBEIGW CABLE.

(PerElectbicTblegbaph.— Copybioht. ) (Rbomb's Agency.) (Beceived 2.50 p.m., July 23rd.J London, July 22. Sir Sanl Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has taken the initiative towards establishing an Australian Parcels Post, and a Conference has been arranged to take place next week between the , Australian Agents-General and Lord John Manners, the British Postmaster-General, when the subject will be fully considered. Cairo, July 22. A messenger arrived at Assouan to-day from Gal Ra, bringing new 3 that the Mahdi died of smallpox on 29th June last. (Special to the Pebss Association.) (Beceived S p.m., July 23rd.) Losdon, July 22. Lord Rosebery has decided to retire from the turf, and is selling his whole stud. The Prince of Wales will nominate some of his horses for the Derby and the Oaks, 1887- ' Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has written to the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant 1 of Ireland, approving of hia Irish policy, i At the English Wesleyan Conference at preaent sitting here the Rev. Richard Roberts was appointed President for the ensuing year. The lifeboat belouging to EM.S. Castor, stationed at North {Shields, has been wrecked, and eight of the crew drowned. [Beceived 1 a.m., Jnly 24th. | London, July 23. Mr H. M. Stanley, the explorer, speaking before the Anti-Slavery Society, advocated General Gordon's plan for : reaching the Upper Nile via the Congo. Dr Ferran of Valencia, who was re- [ cently prohibited by the Spanish Government from continuing inoculation with cholera virus as a preventative against cholera until the Board of Health had expressed its opinion on the subject, has now resumed it m the Province of Aragon.