CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1691, 22 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, — COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, April 18. Sir Saul Samuel is parleying with the Orient Company m reference to the establishment of a parcels post with Australia. Lord Wolverton will probably agree to a tentative acceptance of Victoria's terms regarding the parcels post. , ,Th_e large dock at Tilbury, which has been m course of construction lor Boine time past, has been opened. Id consequence of the cholera at Brindisi the mail steamer will not be permitted to- touch at Alexandria or other Egyptian ports. v ' - , April 19.; Greece has refused to comply with the request of the Powers to disarm. 1 A large force of lurks hare ordered the Greeks to evacuate Larkos {heights on the frontier. • Intelligence from Madrid: states that a priest who bad been dismissed the order has, out of revenge, mortally wounded the Bishop of that city. ". -News is to hand of a terrible conflagration at Stry, a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants situated on the river of the same name, m the province of i Galicia, Austria-Hungary . , The. greater portion of the town was destroyed, and fully one thousand of the inhabitants were rendered entirely home Bishop Moorhouse has arrived, and will be installed immediately. Ho will cousult with Bishop Perry,! formerly of' Melbourne, regarding the immediate up point men t of his successor. The Rev Josiah B. Pearson, Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, is mentioned as a probable successor to Bishop Moor* honso. It is officially announced that the deportation of recidivistes will be suspended pending the reply trom Australia regarding the New Hebrides. / . ; The Prince of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, and the Duke of Counoughc have paid a visit to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. They expressed themselves much pleased with the Australasian Courts, and especially with the paintings exhibited m the ''Victorian Court. r , ■' ■■. :• ..•■•-. April 20. The Prince of Wales will officially inspect the Indian and Colonial Exhibition on May "lst; ' -> ' ; ' t The Bishop of Madrid', who was wounded by a priest, is dead. .. •; ; ■ Her Majesty'sG-qvernment has assented to a proposal put forward . by ( the Khedive that; he shpuld dispatch' delegates to 1 Wady Half a, m order to treat with the rebel Arabs for the cessation hostilities. ■'•'■■■ ! Athens, April 20. > The troops comprising tho garrison 1 of this city, have been ordered to proceed to the frontier. • , < -San Francisco, April 20; The^ Alainedaarrived here from Auckland bu the 18th mat., and the Mara roa loft for New Zealand on the 17th mat at 8 p.ui. ; ' (AGB SPECIALS. ) ' ' • »j- •■•: ■ l . ■ i London, April. 11. The prosecution of the Rev Mr Dyson, the-: Wesley an clergyman- 'who was placed on trial .with Mrs Adelaide Bartlott for the' alleged murderT on NewYear's Eve by chloroform df hfsr husband m Pimlico, has been abondonsd. '