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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 50, 9 January 1877, Page 2

Mr Montgomery requests us to correct an error in the report of his speech, at the Show dinner. He was reported as having said " the nature of the country was not suited for the production of first-class sheep," whereas what he stated was — " That however favourable to sheep, pf which there could be no doubt, the Peninsula was peculiarly well adapted for raising cattle; and owing to the number of industrious settlers engaged in cheesemaking, it was of great importance to encourage improvement in the quality of dairy cattle," &c, A horse, belonging to Mr. Ivess, advertised in the last issue of this paper as having, strayed or been stolen, was found on Friday morning last in the bush, a short distance from Mr. Fry's paddock. It seems that the animal had made his way out of the paddock, and, wandering in the bush, became entangled in the supplejacks, and remained in that position for eight days without food. He was in an extremely weak state, and with great difficulty was moved to the stable, where he was carefully treated by Mr. Fry, through whose exertions he is now in a fair way of recovery. The Akaroa Domain Board has received intimation from the Government that another £50 has been paid to its credit for the quarter ending December 31.

In consequence of the entertainment advertised to take place at the Town Hall this evening, the Akaroa Mutual Improvement Associations' meeting has been postponed till Tuesday next, January 16.

A northern, exchange (says the Rangiora Standard), states that a Mr. Garwood, not long since resident at Wanganui, and well known at" Akaroa, has come into a fortune of £170,000. Mr. Garwood is a compositor by trade,:and an adept at cricket. No Duck's eggs this time when bowled out by Dame Fortune! This is not the well-known Akaroa merchant who among his numerous friends, goes by the name of " Genial Jenning." [We are pleased to note this lucky windfall to a relative* of our fellow townsman, but cannot understand the meaning of the term " genial jenning."—Ed. A. M.]

A case illustrating the necessity of having the hospital now almost. completed, placed under the management of a committee in Akaroa, was painfully made apparent a few days ago. A man lately in the employment of Mr Leprou, blacksmith, was taken dangerously ill a fortnight ago at the; Criterion hotel, where he had been staying. The authorities.were appealed to, to secure the.attendance of a nurse, but they were unable to aid the unfortunate man, as the charitable grant from the Provincial Government which. they formerly had, no longer exists. Every exertion was made on behalf of. the, sufferer by Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and one or two good Samaritans in the town, who succeeded on Saturday last in securing the services of a man to-attend him, otherwise he might have been left without the slightest assistance.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, John Short was charged on the information of William Ashton, proprietor of the Pigeon Bay hotel, with obtaining money underfalse pretences. The prisbner ; who appeared before the Court in a most pitiable plight, verging on delirium, Was remanded for medical examination. It appears that prisoner borrowed £20 from prosecutor, which he knocked down in two, days in prosecutor's hotel. • :

It may not be generally known that Akaroa now rejoices ifi a daily mail service between Christchurch and this "town, ftn arrangement having been come to between the owners of the s.s. Akaroa and the Government to carry a mail every This boon was mainly brought about through Mr. Montgomery's exertions while in Wellington. We trust, that the next step made will be to secure for Akaro a daily service each way.

Mr. F. Murray, of Island Bay, writes to us, correcting an error which he states appeared in our report of the Pastoral Show, held at the Head of the Bay on the 28th ultimo. He contends that in class 25, for hackneys, we wrongly affixed the judge's commendation to Mr. Reed's Tibbie and Mr. Shadbolt's Banshee, and that the decisions should have read—Mr T. Murray's Lady of the Lake, and Mr. Dickens mare highly commended. Our notes have been destroyed, but we have to state our information was gained from the class steward.

We beg to direct attention to a varied and attractive entertainment advertised to take place at the Town Hall this evening, The programme consists of, songs, recitations, &c, by popular amateurs. The low charge: of admission, and the object for which ithe entertainment is held, should command a bumper houße.

The Literary Society Committee held its quarterly meeting last Friday evening— all the members of the committee present. The President, Mr. Aylmer, intimated to the meeting that £60 worth of books were on the way from England, and that the Government has advised a further grant of £20. A sub-committee was appointed to select books to the amount, and subscribers were requested so send in list of books for approval. It was also resolved that one of the side rooms be set aside for reference purposes. The balance of the goods left over from the Bazaar and Fancy Fair will be submitted to auction at 2 o'clock this afternoon, at the Town Hall. New York has 2,000 newsboys. It is stated that a railway tunnel can be put under Niagara Falls for £200,000. According to official statistics there were 5,275 suicides in France last year. Of every 1,000 soldiers in the British army 237 are Irish. The Government of Saxony has forbidden the practice of cremation. The American Government pay annually £5,000 to Chinese interpreters. The debt of New York City amounts to £3,000,000. • The cost of payment of members in Victoria is £28,000 a year. The Empress of Austria is said to be one of the handsomest women in Europe. Cremation is prospering in Germany; There are now 82 cities with cremation societies.. The Bible is now printed in no less than two hundred languages ; in 1854 it was only printed in fifty. A Strang exhibition has been held in the garden of the Tuileries, at Paris. It was of insects divided into two classes—those which are useful and those which are injurious. Dried oysters are among the imports into San Francisco from China. They are simply taken out of the shell, dried in the sun, and packed in wooden boxes. The Chinese are the principal consumers.

A Scotch collier has committed suicide by leaning over a parcel of dynamite, which he then exploded with a match. The man's name was Duncan, and Nitshill was the scene of the occurrence. The man was blown instantaneously to atoms, and a hole made in. the street three feet deep and two-and-a-half feet wide—big enough for a baby's grave. His motive appears to have been chagrin at ill-natured gossip, and perhaps a desire to connect his memory with some act which would fill the neighbourhood rather with drerd than contempt. Suicides often appear to take much account of the effect to be produced by the pity or the terror of their end.

An extraordinary fatality occurred during the voyage of jthe mail steamer Cimbria from New York to Plymouth. The Danish vice-consul at Dinamarca, Porto Rico, was reading in the deckhouse near an open door, and as the vessel was pitching in the heavy sea, he was recommended to exchange to do so. Almost directly aftewards the vessel lerched, and he was hurled head foremost through the doorway. Pitching against the iron bulwarks, he fractured his skull, and died shortly afterwards.