Peninsula News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 666, 1 December 1882, Page 2

Peninsula News.

Bank Holiday.—Yesterday being St Andrew's Day was observed as a bank holiday.

Naturamsicd —Letters of naturalisation have been issued lo Peter Johnson, laborer, of Little Bivi r.

Farmers' Clvb —Special attention U \ u.dled to the fact that a meeting uf the , Farmers' Club will be held at tiie Odd-, fellows' Hall to-morrow. Comio Alhanvx'.—Mr J. C. Duncan, of' Ashburton, bus published acomicAlmanac, i which in addition to tho usu 11 useful in- * formation, contdns a number of humorou.-* j articles. Tho Almanac, as will be seen by ' advertisment, is to bo procured at Mr j Citron's.

Dramatic.—Atlention is called to an advertisement appearing in this issue, announcing that a drunaticpcforinar.ee will he <*i yon at the. 0 hlfeUow.i' Mai -mi ihc evening of the Regatta Day, in aid of tho Regatta funds. The pieces selected are very good ones, and as the Miss Parsons and Messrs Parsons, Granger, Honiberslcy and other Akaroa favorites are going to take part, wo predict a oxecellent performance and an overflowing house.

TiTrrom Fever.—Another passenger by the ship Taranaki, also suffering from typhoid fever, who came to his friends at Little Riv.r, lias been brought to Akaroa for medical treatment. His history is the same us that of the man Erikson, of whom he i-s a countryman. Leaving tho ship ill, the disease developed when he reached his destination, and he had to be sent here. Tho same precautions have been taken as in Eiikson's case, and both patients are doing well.

General News.-—Mr S. R. Webb has been elector! Mayor of Lyttelton. He polled 195 votes, his opponent, Weyburne, polling only 131.—1t has been decided to enlarge tho Suez Canal.—The Sorrento has now almost completed her loading, and will leave for England on Dec. G. The shipment of frozen meat preparod for her by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company consisted of 7260 carcases, but 1428 of these have unavoidably shut out, and will be shipped instead by the ship Dunedin, which leaves in about three weeks time. The total weight of the shipment is a little over 237 tons, or an average of 73lbs per sheep, The chamber for butter is also expected to bo well filled before the departure of the vessel.

Summer Excursions.—-Tho Union Steamship Company commence their annual excursion season to-day, granting passages at reduced rates over all the Company's lines, available until March 31 next. Special reductions are offered for tho intercolonial service, which will make the fares very reasonable, and permit return from Sydney or Melbourne as required. The coastal fares will be 30 per cent off the two singlo fares, equivalent to a reduction of 10 per cent off the ordinary return. Special excursions for the holidays are also provided, and by first class steamers. Tho Hawea will tako the place of the Taiaroa on the time-table for Dec. 16. (Anniversary Day,) and make an excursion to Akaroa, where she will meet tho Waitaki with excursionists from Timaru. The West Coast Sounds trip will be resumed this year, and the Company intend to send their new steamer Tarawera, now en route from the Clyde, and expected to arrive at Port Chalmers early in December. She will leave about ths New Year, andjn the course of an eight or nine days'trip will visit Mil ford, Dusky, Caswell and other principal Sounds on the West Coast. Intending passengers for this trip are requested to send in their names at as early a date as possible. The steamers going and coming from Melbourne will call atMilford Sound only, and are duly noted in the Company's time-table for D icember. Tho Rotomahana is due at Lyttelton on Boxina: Day, and it is not unlikely that she will run an excursion outside the Head 3. On New Year's Day, two of the Company's steamers are due in Port —the Wakntipu and Rotorua. The former has been aA<ed for by the Regatta Committee as flagship, and should they succeed in getting her, (he public may rely upon arrangements being satisfactory.

Akaroa Hospital—At a -r.eeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, held on Wednesday, the following report from Mr J. E. March was read:—"l have the honour to report that I inspected the Hospital at Akaroa on Thursday last. The buildings are in very fair order, a few slight repairs to the plaster in the wards is necessary, the corrugated iron roof over the verandah requires painting as well as the fence round the building. The total expenditure will not exceed £15. At present six patients are in the wards, and on the Tuesday previous to my visit a case of typhoid fever was sent from Pigeon Bay. This case could not be admitted into the wards, the patient was therefore placed in one of the compartments of the Immigration Depot, and is being kept entirely isolated. I thought it necessary to make some enquiries respesting this case, and obtained the following information from the medical officer and from the brother of the patient. Wilhelm Ereckson, aged twenty five, a native of Finland, arrived at Port Chalmers from London in the ship Taranaki on the 14th inst. The ship had forty-one passengers but carried no surgeon. Ereckson states he was ill on arrival ; he came to Christchurch on the 17th inst., where his brother mot him, and seeing he was ill, he consulted a medical man, who prescribed for him. Ereckson and his brother stayed at. one of the hotels in Christchurch till the following Monday, the 20th inst, when they proceeded to Pigeon Bay, where the brother resides ; on arrival thero Dr Gulhrb was consulted, and ho at once pronounced tho case lo be one of typhoid fever, and gave an order for his admission to the Hospital. In the '' Otago Daily Times " of November 15th, the arrival of the shipT.iranaki is reported. I give tho following extract from tho report:—" The clipper t:liip Paranaki arrived off Otago Heads on the night of November 13th, and was towed into Port Chalmcni on tho following morning by the s.s. Plucky, anchoring in Mansford's Bay at 8.15 a.m. She was met in the lower harbor by tho Cnstoms' officials, and all being reported well, was at once cleared in." Tho medical officer a; the Hospital, Akaroa, assuroj me that when he first saw Ereckson on November 2isi, ho ha I then been under tiie intliience of fjver for at least ten days. My reason for bringing this, case before the Bo o'd is to show the necessity of a medical officer inspecting all passenger ships on arrival, and this is specially more requisite when foreigners are on board. 1 find that Mrs Smart, tho matron at t-.o Ilospita 1 , in addition to the cooking and nursing, has also very frequently to wash for the patients ; her htHoaud is able to do any necessary repairs required to the building:-!, and also cny p-.inting. in consideration of their performing these duties—which they are willing to do—l beg to reecomend i.iuL ihey receive at tho rate of Ji 100 per airmm.— J. E. March." The [j-j'i ':•]. (J. J. Stevens moved — " 'That the portion of the report referring to Ereckson's ease be 1 or warded to tho Government." The motion was agreed to. h was also decided dial the proposed increase of Mr and iUrs Smart's salary be recommended Lo tho Government for adoption. There is no doubt that when tho :Jo:.rd hear of the second case ; ! urthe;: I T'lnrf'Ji.'ot'.'.ious wiil be m;<de. !

Akaroa and Wainui Road Board. -A meeting of this Board took place yesterday afternoon, when a good deal of business was transacted. A full report will be published in Tuesday's issue.

The Auckland Cricketers at Oamaru akd Timaru.—ln the match against Oamaru the Aucklanders won by an innings and 77 runs, scoring 232 against O.maru's 88 and 67. In the match with Timaru, the visitors made 141 in their first' innings against Titnaru's 51. The Christchurch match takes place to-morrow —Monday and Tuesday.

Cricket.—The following are the names of the eleven selected to represent the A.CO. in the match with the Barry's Bay Club on Saturday :—Messrs V. Masefield, W. B. Tosswill, A. Tosswill, Keats, A. Munro, G. Taylor, W, H. Hargreaves, W. G yuan, 0. Watkins, A. G. Hamilton, and G. Fluerty. Emergencies—A. Spurr, 11. Billens. The Secretary requests that all the above named gentlemen will be on the ground tit 10 a.m. sharp.

Regatta News.— Tho Hon. Sec. has received the following letter:—" Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Dunedin, Nov. 28. 1882. Dear Sir, —I duly received your favor of 20th inst. Tho Timaru people promising to give fair support to an excursion to the Akaroa Regatta, we have decided to let the Waitaki run from there on Friday night, 15th Dec, returning on Saturday night, after the regatta is over, and hope that the experiment will bo attended with success. I have pleasure also in advising you that the Directors have voted a subscription of £5 5s towards the prize fund, a cheque for which amount will be handed you by Mr Henning. Wishing the Regatta evory success.—Yours, etc., D. Mills, Acting General Manager."

Canterbury Wool Sales.—The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows : — We held our opening sale of the season at the Christchurch Wool and Grain Ware • houses on Wednesday, when the attendance of buyers was good and the compe tition spirited. We catalogued 876 bales out of which 185 bales were withdrawn, biddings not coming up to owners' reserves. The balance—69l bales—passed the hammer at figures particularised below, from which it will be aeen that a distinct advance on the prices obtained at Tuesday's sales was realised. Greasy crossbred brought 6d to 9j, greasy halfbred B|d to 9jd, greasy merino 7|:l to 9|d, Lincoln 6%d, Leicester 7|d, Romney Marsh, 6|d to B|d, scoured merino Is 6£d, scoured crossbred Is and scoured halfbred Is 2jd. Hospital News.—-Edward Chapman a man 45 years of age, was cutting timber in the 'Western Valley, Little River, on Monday last, when a tree he was falling caught as it came down, turned round, and in reaching the ground struck the unlucky man's leg bre dung it between the knee and ancle. The sufferer was carried into Little River, and then a cart was procured from Mr G. Smith. It was midnight when begot to the Akaroa Hospital, but Dr White was speedily in attendance, and the leg was set, and we sire glad to hear, is doing well, One is glad to record that Mr W. Smith, of Pigeon Bay, who, it will be remembered, sustained a compound fracture of the leg some time ago, is doing very well, and the other puients are progressing satisfactorily.