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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 96, 19 June 1877, Page 2

The Borough Council meet to-morrow evening, in their offices, at the usual hour. An adjourned meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board will be held today, at 11 oclock, in their office for the passing of accounts and opening tenders. To morrow evening, from an advertisement in this issue, it will be seen the Good Templars of the Local Lodge proposed holding one of these pleasant evenings of singing, Reading and Ricitation, that have done so much to popularize this body here. In addition to the ordinary bill of fare Bro. Harlock, will give an address on "The Spirit of the Order" An important item in the evening doings is. that the admission is free. From some unexplained cause no mail arrived here last evening from Lyttelton The postmaster here has telegraphed in reference to non-receipt to head-quarters, but up to time of going to press had received no leply. The inward San Francisco mail arrived at Nelson yesterday, and may be expected on Friday evening, about 4 o'clock, via Bay.

'The usual weekly meeting of the Mutual J Improvement Society, will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock in the school room. The question for discussion is the much vexed one of Capital Punishment- In addition to the debate Mi\ McGregor will move his motion,. 6f which he has given previous notice regarding the membership of ladies. Now that ladies take the highest honors in all departments of knowledge, we think the proposed addition to the roll of this useful body a most remarkable one. Our advertising 'columns teem this morning with drapers advertisements, and every opportunity is given to purchasers to have all their wants supplied on the best terms. Messrs. Ballantyn'e and Co., of Dunstable House, Christchurch, offer some very special inducements in every department of the trade. Messrs. Paul and Co., from Wellington, with a bankrupt stock invite public attention to tbe very great bargains they propose to offer to the residents in this district. Our local friend, Messrs. Wood Bros., not to be behind call attention to a large and varied stock of useful goods, which they offer very cheap. We should say that if people have the wherewithal there will be no difficulty about being clothed.

One of these painful cases, degrading to our common humanity, which it is the duty of the journalist from time to time to record, has occurred in Le Bon's Bay" It appears that a girl, nine years of age, Petra Petersein, who is at present living with Mrs. Macarthy, Le Bon's Bay HiU was sent the bush last Friday week to gather firewood along with a little boy, a son of Mrs. Macarthy's, five years old. After the children had been gone some time, the little boy returned, saying that one of t4ie bushmen had struck him with a supple-jack and sent him home. Shortly afterwards the girl returned home, when it was found that an outrage of the foulest description had been perpetrated upon her. On the police being communicated with, Sergeant Ramsay immediately went to Le Bons to make the necessary inquiries. It turns out that the perpetrator of the gross outrage is the George Woods, whose name figures in our police reports of Saturday and } r esterday, .for drunkenness. Woods will be brought up at the Police Court, on Tuesday next, charged with the crime of rape. From the small experience we have hitherto had of the calograms that come to us from the seat of war via London, it would seem that the information conveyed by this means is likely to be of a confusing and distracting nature. This is the opinion of " E," in the Nelson Mail, and he thinks that, judging by the past, what we may f ,expect Hi theiutureis something in this style : —" London, 31st June, 10 a.m. A terrific engagement took place yesterday at Suratchempolepol between the Russians and Turks, when the latter were disgracefully defeated with the loss of 10.350 men.' " Noon.— Re war telegram, for ' latter' read ' former.' " " 2.30 p.m.—Knock off the old 50. Not sure about them." " 4 p.m.—Mistake in telegram. Only 10,300 killed and wounded on both sides." " Later.—Accounts re battle of Scratchempolepol exaggerated. Only 9,000 engaged altogether." "The very latest.—There was no engagement at all, but battle expected next week."