HOME AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 981, 8 January 1883, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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(Received Jan. G, 2.40 a.ra.) ' t ■'« LONDON, Jan. 6. •» Sir P, D, Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, invited tenders for a monthly steamship service between England and New Zealand.. Outward route to bo via Capo ot Good Hope and homeward by Straits of Magellan. e The statement that Mr Givan, M.P. for Monaghan, had been appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland, is authoritatively denied. The province of Whydah on the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, has been ceded by Portugal to England. It has transpired that Earl Derby, secretary of State for the colonies will at a date in the middle of this month to bo hereafter fixed accord a formal reception to the various colonial AgentsGeneral, at which it is understood the question of the more formal recognition of the latter’s official status will be discussed. (Received Jan 8, noon.) LONDON, Jau 6. Consols The market rate of discount has declined to S§ the bank rate continues at 5 per cent. There are no changes to report in New Zealand securities, colonial breadstuffs and tallow. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2-280,000 quarters, ; : ? PARIS, Jau. 6. The funeral of M. Gambettw itook place to-day. The cortege was attended by members of the Ministry, Senate, and Chamber of Deputies, and by deputations from all parts of the country. Business was entirely sus- ' pended, and the streets through which the funeral procession passed were lined with masses of people. It is estimated that fully 250,000 persons were assembled along the from Palais Bourbon to Perc La, Chaise. The spectacle lias .never boon paralleled since the funeral’ of the great Napoleon. In the panegyrical orations which were delivered on the occasion, special reference was made to the former French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and to the affection, and esteem in which the deceased statesman was held by the inhabitants of those districts.