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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2360, 9 October 1880, Page 4

: Gambetta, in responding to tbe toast of his health at the Cherbourg banquet, is reported to have said :—“ I have never forgotten who I am, where I came from, and where lam going. I sprang from the most humble ranks of the democracy, and to that democracy I still belong, body and soul. I never aspired to be a dictator; I never wished, and never shall wish, to be other than a servant of the democracy in the rank and place which are mine.” John Cahill, a|married man, residing with his family in San Francisco, and in a good social position, called at the house of a Mrs Sheelin, with whom he and his wife had been on visiting terms, deliberately drew a revolver, and shot at her, and then blew his brains out. The woman’s life was saved by a steel corset which turned the bullet aside. The Irish-American athletes have beaten the Scotch Canadians in trials of strength and speed by three points. The contest was for 1,000 dol and the championship of the world. H P 3 P H O <J § « P W < p s « n Ph o & § g JOURNALS. LEDGERS. CASH BOOKS. SALE BOOKS, ETC. Ruled & Bound to Order. W O O - « S PS H. EX LEY, M ENEEAL CAEEIEE, FORWARDING JT and RECEIVING AGENT, TIMAEU. Ixpresses meet all Trains North and South. All orders promptly attended to.