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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1241, 8 January 1883, Page 2

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[reuter’s telegrams]. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) PARIS, Jan. 6. The funeral of Gambetta took plaee today. The cortege was attended by the members of the ministry, senate and chamber deputies, and by a deputation from all parts of the country. Business was entirely suspended, and the streets through which the funeral procession passed were lined with masses of people, and it is estimated that fully 250,000 people were assembled along the route, from the Palais Bourbon to Pere la Chaise. The spectacle has never been paralelled 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 promise of Alsace and Lorraine, and the affection and esteem in which the deceased statesman was held by the inhabitants of those districts. LONDON, Jan. 6. Sir F. D. Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, has invited tenders for a monthly steamship service between England and New Zealand. The outward route to be via the Cape of < tood Hope, and the homeward by the Straits of Magellan. The statement that was given that Mr Monigan had been appointed Under Secretary of Ireland has been authoritatively denied. Consols, 99£. Market rate rate of discount has declined to 311. The bank rate continues at 5 per cent. There are no changes to report in New Zealand securities, Colonial breadstuff’s, and tallow. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,230,000 quarters. The province of Whydah on the Giflf of Guinea, West Africa, has been ceded by Portugal to England. It has transpired that Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Celonics, will, at a date in the middle of this month to be hereafter fixed, accord a formal reception to the various Colonial Agents-General, at which it is understood the question of more formal recognition of the latters’ official status will be discussed.