FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3605, 20 April 1886, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH ABTD PJREIOW CABLE.

(Per Klkotbio Tklegbaph— Copybiqht.) (Special to the Press Association.) [Received 11 a.m., April 19th.] THE PARCELS POST. London, April 18. Sir Saul Samuel is parleying "with, the Orient Companjr m reference to the establishment of" a parcels post -with Australia. - • -■ ■- Lord Wolverton will probably agree io a tentative acceptance of ■ Victoria's^ terms regarding the pa^cete;poßt.., r -. ;',;■ ' OPENING OFTHE TIiiBTJRX * DOCK. ' The large dock at Tilburyv<which has been m course of construction for Borne time past, has been, opened. THE CHOLERA AND THE MAIL „ ■•.■. STEAMERS.;^ / -<; -..^ In consequence of tßa'choleßS^afit, Brindisi, the mail BteamerHr^rill J^b'Be " permitted to touch 7 at Alexandria or other Egyptian'pbrte. '•• - ; • r '-' '■'' i: i_ MR PARNELL ON IRISH QUESTIONS. ;, ! v .., „, Mr Parnell m a speech the Irish landlords that the offer now made for the purchase of "their lands wflnTot"' be repeated. • He regards lain's scheme as dangerous, deßpitetill' that may be done towards modifying it. - /T [Received 10 p.m., April Utth.<J-'i«iS':oT :. GREECE DEFIANT^ . . ; Tm ,, oA Greece has refused to comply with; the request of the Powers '{o dika'iini s A large force of Greeks to evacuate' Zarkos heights, on the frontier. • • ■'■■■■ ■'- -■•■■■ ' - '" '-> r| -\ ' THE AC* OF A CO WAfepL T' ,^ Intelligence from Madrid states that ' a priest, who had been dismissed'the '•" Order, odt of revenge mortally wotapdtiS 1 "? the Bishop of that city. . r •'. V ; ; ; : v' iX DISASTROUS FIRE. tNews is to hand of a terribte"* conflagration at' Stry,--*"' ' town -of thirteen, thousand inhabitants, situated T on the river of the same name, m the province of : . Galioia, ; , Austria^ Hungary. The greater portion^ of tnei town was destroyed, and fully ,one thousand of the inhabitants jrendereot perfectly homeless. t .;■""'