CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 35, 6 January 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

COMMODORE ERSKINE.

GAMBETTA LYING Iff STATE.

FATAL AFFRAY WITH BAI* LIFFS.

(BY EIiECTBIC TELEQBA.PH.-rrCOPS'RIQHT.) (united' peess association.) London, Jan. 3. Commodore Erskiue, commanding the Australian station, has been appointed a naval aide-de-camp to Her Majesty. Gfambetla's remains were removed to the Palais Bourbon, whera they lie m state. They will be interred at Pere La Chaise on Friday. The grief throughout the provinces is profound. The Royalist Press are, however, jubilant at his death. The Earl of Stamford is dead. Three bailiffs who were attacked m Tipperary succeeded m killing one of their assailants. A rising is feared m Armenia. January 4. In the vicinity of Worms, a city of Germany m. Hesse* Darmstadt, most severe floods have occurred, and upwards of 10,000 families have been rendered homeless. Other cities adjoining the unfortunate country have been crowded with refugees who fled to save their lives and thos9 of their families. The Danube threatens to inundate the lower portions of Vienna, Bad it is feared that the consequences m*y be of a serious nature. Niueof the Ulemas of Egypt have been publically degradad by the Khedire. M. Gambet'a was, it appears, wounded m his attempt to prevent his mistress shooting herself, m consequence of his refusal to recognise their natural son as his legitimate heir. His death, however, resulted from an old intestinal complaint. The Peterborough Cathedral has been tound to be subsiding on its foundations, and the central tower is consequently being removed. The (Standard publishes what purports to ba a despatch from |Ear] Spencer, negotiating for the appointment of a British Minister at the Vatican. Mr Gladstone, however, denies tbe authenticity of the document.