The Akaroa Mail FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1892.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1668, 8 July 1892, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1892.

Farmers' and Settlers' League. — Attention is called to advertisement elsewhere.

Farmers' Association.—All members are reminded that this Association meet on Saturday, at Duvauchelle's, at i p.m. The HishoP-—We regret to hear through the Rev. Jasper Smyth that the Bishop has been unwell for some time, and has been ordered by his medical adviser to take a sea trip and mental rest for a month. He purposes leaving for Sydney, and will be away till the middle of August. This necessitates his postponing his visit to Akaroa till the 28th of August, when, health permitting, he hopes to be here and preach in the Parish church and Bays. Akaroa Borough Council.—A meeting ol this Council was opened on Wednesday evening. Present—His Worship the Mayor, and Councillors Chappell, Checldey, Munro, Noonan, Watkins, Taylor. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, after which His Worship the Mayor said that out of respect to the memory of their brother Councillor, Mr Bruce, the Council would adjourn to Friday evening next at 7 p.m. He noted to the Councillors the fact that the funeral took place on Friday afternoon. The Council then rose. REVIEW.—" Austin's Indispensable Hands book and general Educator." This is a book of useful and practical knowledge of the " Enquhe Within " species—only more so— It is a perfect Olla Podrida of knowledge. As in the noted Spanish stew, you dip in your fork or open by chance, and there appears be« fore you some quaint piece of information, that to use a phrase of the country from which the book emanates, " tickles you all over.' . When one has had the book in the house for a week your wife says," However did we get on before we had the general Educator?" and you reply feebly, " I don't know," and you don't. As before noted it is an American production, and it is really wonderful what a great amount of useful knowledge the compiler has crammed into a comparatively limited space. Amongst other things, it teaches how to avoid or remedy all common diseases, to treat accidents till the doctor comes, how to furnish your house, or to cook anything from a lark pie to elephant's ( foot, to truss, to carve, to garden, to set a dinner table and ask the guests, to protect clothes from moths, make candles, pack china, clean kid gloves, grow grapes, do auy kind of gardening, make any kind of beverage, keep horses, dogs, cats, or" any other animal, to kill rats and mice, and to keep bees. It also treats of social deportment and etiquette. Like some of the old colonial stores, you find anything in it from a needle to an anchor. The agent is Mr J. R. Brunt of the "Press" Office, and no doubt he will be glad to answer any communication.

Oddfellows' Ball. — The Oddfellows notify/elsewhere that a district ball will be held on Thursday next in their hall, Akaroa. Arbor Day.—All friends interested in the beauty of Akaroa are reminded that the meeting to appoint a Committee to arrange regarding Arbor Day will be held in the Town Hall at 7 p.m. on Saturday. At-Home Society.—There was a good attendance at this Society's meeting last night, when Miss Henderson advocated the right of workmen to strike, under certain circumstances. Mr James Piper argued in the negative. There was an excellent debate, much interest being taken, the result being that Miss Henderson had 24 votes recorded in favor of her argument, only 6 voting on the other side.

Late Cable News.—lt was through the coolness displayed by Captain Redfern that the passengers on board the s.s. City of Chicago were saved. A panic occurred among the passengers after the vessel had struck and the Captain ordered the lifeboats to be launched and in them two hundred persons were landed. The cliffs were scaled in the darkness by means of a rope ladder. — H.M.S. Orlando sails for Wellington on the 15th inst.—The cricket match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was won by Oxford by five wickets.—lncreasing anxiety is felt about the attitude of the Ameer, and troubles appear to be looming ahead from several directions. The British have warned him not to interfere in the Bajour, a mountainous district in the north-western frontier of India.—So far, the Tories have won twenty seats, the Liberals eight, and the Unionists five.—" The Times " asserts that Mr Gladstone's view that the peace of Ireland rests ou the hope ot his return to power would send an inmate of Bedlam into convulsions. The " Daily News "on the other hand contends that the Edinburgh speech has burst the Ulster bubble. Sir J. Lubbock insists that this is the last desperate struggle of the Home Rulers, conscious of a coining defeat. —It is reported that Lord Knutsford has promised a delegate from Natal that separation from the Cape will be granted conditionally on the Government providing safeguard for the welfare of the natives. —The editor of " Friesevnege Zeitung " has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months for saying that the Emperor William shot a deer out of season.—At Baku the bodies of those who have died of cholera have been left unburied. The scare is so great that the authorities are leaving the town, and the doctors being unable to cope with the disease are characterised as cowards. The epidemic has obtained a firm hold in Astrakan, and is still spreading.—The Anarchists in Paris are plotting the rescue of Ravachol, and they threaten to resort to the use of explosives un>> less he is released.—The French Press believe that Mr Gladstone's return to power will do much to neutralise the triple alliance, as his sympathies are with France.—lt has been decided to hold an Exhibition in Paris in 1900. —The German Press desire the projected Berlin Exhibition in 1900 to be abandoned.— Hempton and Batger leave for New Zealand on July 23, Cuff and the two Woods a month later. — Returns to hand show that the Liberals have 42, the Tories 62, and the Unionists 8 seats. Fleet street is continuously blocked by crowds awaiting the posting of returns in front of the newspaper offices, and the cheering of excited partisans is deafening. At Troyne, on Sunday, the Hon. Plunkett was assaulted in church by a priest, the excited audience crying out, •' Don't kill him." Fifty*, six Boroughs have polled liberal majorities.— The " Times," commenting on the result so far as recorded, states it is evident that Mr Gladstone will sweep neither London nor the provincial boroughs.—M. Ribot, the Foreign Minister, has requested the English Societies to withdraw their missionaries from Algiers in order to prevent the necessity of their ex* pulsion owing to the proselytism of Musselmen.