Peninsula News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XIX, Issue 1457, 4 July 1890, Page 2

Peninsula News.

The Jubilee. — All our readers are reminded of the importance of attending the Jubilee meeting, which will be held in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next. County Council.—This Council meet on the 12th inst, when we understand that Mr Baker will resign the Chairmanship having let French Farm.

and Wainui Road Board.— The annual and ordinary meetings will be held on Saturday, 12th inst. A notification of tenders required for several works appears elsewhere.

Cheese —Notice is sent us Mr Sawyer, the Government cheese expert, will be in Akaroa in a day or two. The Bishop of Christchurch.—Attention is called to the advertisements respecting services to be held by His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch at Duvauchelle's, Wainui, and Akaroa, and also the social gathering on Saturday evening in the Oddfellows' Hall.

Early SpringJ — Owing to the exceptionally mild weather the crocus is already in bloom at Mr Garwood's, Green Point. .'Two kinds ot narcissus are also out and have been so for more than a week past. Flowers generally are quite a month ahead of their usual time.

St. Peter's Vestry.—A meeting of this vestry took place last night. Present—Messrs Penlington, Potls, Clarke, Bicknell, T. E. Taylor, Mr Westenra presiding. The address to be presented to the Bishop was tead and approved, and final arrangements made for the social gathering. Mr Nicholls handed in his resignation as lay reader.

The " Prohibitionist."—We have received a copy ot the " Prohibitionist," the organ of the Sydenham Prohibition League. It will be published fortnightly, and delivered regularly at every house in the model borough free of charge. The paper appears to be a very able advocate of the views it is intended to spread, is nicely printed and well read.

Baldwin and Corlev.—Special attention is called to the new advertisement of this firm, appearing elsewhere. The business it is prepared to undertake is of a most varied and important character, including buying, selling, and letting of farms and other pioperties, and valuations of all kinds, Mr Baldwin being specially skilled in furniture. Money is to be lent on all kinds of securities, and bills are to be discounted and renewed. Besides this there is a registry office for male and female servants. Absolute privacy is guaranteed in all financial and other dealings with clients. We wish the new firm continued prosperity.

Akaroa School Committee.—A meeting of this Committee took place on Tuesday in the schoolroom. Present—Messrs Dodds, (chairman), Noonan, Penrose, Staples, and Wright. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The following accounts were passed for payment: —Place and Wheeler, £7 18s ; P. Brown, cleaning, £ 2 ios; H. C. Jacobson, advertising, 10s 6d ; G. F. Dodds, stationery, 13s rod ; R. M. Spurr, secretary, ,£ I ios ; Thomas and Goodwin, repairs to gymnasium, £1 12s 6d. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Education Board for half of Place and Wheeler's account as promised, also to state that a colonial oven had been in the master's house for over eight yeats and was quite worn out, and that the committee repeat their request that a range be got at once. It was resolved to have two cart loads of shingle put in the girls' playground. The meeting then adjourned.

Outside Nbws.—The rowing match be-, tween Stanbury and O'Connor, which was rowed over again on Monday in consequence ot the protest of the latter, was again won by Stansbury, and puts his sup?riority beyond all doubt.—The receipts of the concert in Christchurch in aid ot the Balaclava fund were '£27 ss, expenses £24 ios sd, balance £2 14s 7d. The fund has reached to nearly £70. —A boy in Wellington, 14 years of age has sued the late master of the Te Aro school for £505 damages for breaking his thumb with a cane in March last year.

Laic Cable News.—Archbishop Walsh recently censured the Irish members for being absent from a " snatch " division. Mr Parnell, who was included, made a protest.— Seventy members banqueted Mr Parnell on the occasion of his birthday.—An imposing Unionist demonstration has been held at the Crystal Palace. Mr Balfour, Irish Secretary, ridiculed the idea that Government was tottering. The Temperance Party would regret their fanaticism, though they had sue* ceeded in destroying the licensing clauses of the Local Taxation Bill, because their action would prevent efforts being made in future to legislate in the interests of temperance.—The East African agreement has been ratified. In addition: o Heligoland, England cedes Maria Island to Germany.—Mr D. Hean's

report on the Bank of New Zealand has created a most favorable impression on the London Directors—Mr Gladstone is supporting Mr Duncan, the RadicaUcandidate lor Barrow, against Mr S. Came, who resigned to test the feeling of the electors on the compensation question. Lord R. Churchill is working for Mr Wainwright, the Unionist candidate.—Two peasants belonging to Epinal, while gathering firewood, crossed the German frontier. When retiring they were challenged, and not answering the guard fired and wounded one. — Hundreds ot deaths are reported in the United States from sunstroke. —Sullivan refuses to fight Jackson, owing to tbe recent police restrictions.—A tornado has swept over Kentucky and Tennessee. A church at Gnlatin was wrecked during service, and many people were injured.—Diplomatists consider Prince Ferdinand's departure from Sofia is connected with the impending declaration of the independence of Bulgaria.— Major Panitza was stripped of his uniform when led out to execution, %'ijle preserved an undaunted front to the end.—Captain Jorgensen, in his patent life boat "The Stoma King," is off Breaksea Island at the of King George's Sound.—A man named William Ewatt nwas charged at London with repeated bigamy. He declared himself to be really Pierce Egan, and said he had never been out of Australian waters from 1877 to 1889, when ! ,he shipped -as assistant engineer on the Ruapehu.—The judgment of the Court of Enquiry into the loss of the steamer Dacca was thatlthe chief officer alone was to blame for not altering the course enough to clear the Daedalus reef. His certificate was ordered to be suspended for a year. The Court awarded great credit to the captain and crew of the Dacca for the discipline and rapid landing of the passengers, but regretted the absence of the captain from the deck at the time of the catastrophe.—The gasmen out on strike at Leeds defeated the police, and prevented five hundred blacklegs from entering the works. — Government are disposed to increase the pay of the police if the excessive demands for pensions are abandoned, and the police are inclined to agree to this compromise.—The Russian Press regard the agreement entered into between England and Germany over the East African question as only part of the secret Anglo-German Alliance, and urge the formation of a counter alliance between France and Russia. —The East African agreement between Germany and England has been signed.—The wife and four daughters of Mr James O'Connor, of " United Ireland," died from eating poisonous mussels. —The Turks killed fifty Christians at Erzeroum, the capital of Armenia.—There is a panic about the cholera, which is spreading both in Spain and France. — An engagement took place at Wallafox between Mexican ban lits and soldiers, seven ot the latter being killed and twenty wounded,—lt is asserted that a Unionist member of the House of Commons will be offered the Governorship of New South Wales if the Marquis uf Lothian and Lord Balfour of Burleigh persist in refusing.—A railway traveller, named King, while looking out of a window, near Melbourne, was decapitated by an open carrhge door of a passiug train.—Arrived at Adelaide —H.M.S. CuraSoa. She relieves the Opal.