RISEN FROM THE RANKS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 November 1881, Page 2

RISEN FR OM THE RANKS.

■» Gambetta, the other day, visited 1»« father at Cabors, his birth plnce. Any* r>ne walking through Onbros spes, to this day a provincial shop resembling a country store in an Australian township, with crockeryware, sugar, and treacle, in the window, and a large hoard with the name of Qirabetfa, J*nnu. et Cie.' fastened over the door. This wag, not very long ng-o, the home vf r Gambef ta*« father, and it was amnnsr the brooms and bashes that stood in f mnt; of the donr, that the present President of the Chamber of Deputies, and 'he probable future President of the French Republic, played as a hny. Gambetta has ceded the apron of Office •o a successor, but he si ill lives at Cab ore. There was such a vast crowd C boush Cabors is but a poor place) an such an rffi^ious strusg'ins forward of mayor and prefect, council I ors- » neral, and soldiers that the old man had some ado to reach the spot; where the srvst man descended. G»mbetta •hrew himself on his father's n^t-k with effu*ivenPßs of a child of t he Soui h, and shed gpnuine tears of emotion as he embraced him. The shnp bearing his name wa< hung with flags ; tbe df putrttions read addresses of welcome all the way »o the hotel, and cries o r * Vve la France," Vive Gambetta,' 'Vive la Kepublique.' resounded ia every* direction.