ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 6 January 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

I P^i^j^auuary^.; The date upon which the fuueral of the late M| GambetWs remains f will'- tako'' place has been;clianged^ r It s ,isj now ,an; ( nouncen that the' funeral rites' Will" be ' performed at Paris on the 6th inst., and that the interment will' take" plade 1 sub- ' sequeutly at Nice. , ;,, > „ , A special to the Press Association^re-, * ceived at 7.361 p.!n^yesterda^,.and fla\ted f 3 London 8 January 3rd, says^-rM. Gambetla was, it appears, .wounded in his attempt to prevent 1 his mistress l) 'shob'ting ! > : herself in consequence of his refusal to recognise their natural son as his legitimate heir, rt Death, .however, resulted from an old complaint: <•»•'•* *r u i^i'4 'vJ ' M. Gamfcetta's remains rwere removed to the Palace Bourbon, where they lie in state. "Tffir~gHM provinces is profound., JThe -Royalist Press are, however, jubilaut. 1 < > f , LQNiioNj [January 3. j The man Delaney, who was arrested on the 12th Novemberilast,lor attempted j assassination of Judge Lawson in Dublin, has been found guilty '6f ' conspiracy ix> murder, and been sentenced to penal servitude for ten years. ' ' It has transpired that the Egyptian Government' has proposed to the ' Powers that the present mixed international tribunals in Egypt should only lb&l b& longed for another year instead of , for f (/ an indefinite^term., , „ ' ' Berlisv January 3. ' ' ! ! Further heavy .rain l^as fallen in the Southern provinces, j iind ; the floods' in^the A Rhine "Valley have extended; ), A number of towns and villages are inundated, .and several persons have b'e'en'drbwned. '" ! ! ViEpA? 'January 3 Severe storms of rain haVe been experienced in the Northern,, .districts r of Austria, and disastrous floods "Have ocenred, resulting in much destruction of property and loss of life.