The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1892.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 1669, 12 July 1892, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1892.

Rangitikei Election. — Mr Bruce has been returned by a majority of 61, he polled 1094 votes against Mr Stevens 1033. The New Taxation.—Mr Crombie estimates the amount yielded by the new taxation will be as follows : — Land Tax £ Graduated Land Tax £67,307 ; Income TaxCompanies, £47,000 ; business, employment, and emolument, £45,000. Total, £378,915. Salvation Army.—The Salvation Army intend holding a series of special meetings from Friday the 15th to Monday 18th; to commemorate the second anniversary of the Army in Akaroa. Major Vince and five special officers are coming to take part in the proceedings, which conclude with the anniversary tea on Monday night. Lake Ellesmere.—Mr Joyce presented a petition on Friday from seven Ellesmere settlers, Messrs Parlane, Cross, Corrigan, Neill, Jephson, Horgan, and Stalker, praying for an inquiry into the best means ot draining' their lands, or for compensation, they having been induced to take up Grown lands by representations that they could be drained into Lake Ellesmere, which they find impossible, as the lands are under the level of the lake. Funeral of Mr Bruce. — There has seldom been a larger gathering at an Akaroa funeral than that on Friday when Mr Bruce was buried. The number present from Akaroa and the Bays shows the universal respect and esteem felt for Mr Bruce and his family. The Borough Council acted as pall bearers. The afternoon was windy and unpleasant, and the long procession took some time to reach the grave. The Rev. Mr Finlay officiated, assisted by the Rev. Mr Simpson, of Sydenham. Both made long addresses, the former dwelling much on his personal knowledge and respect and esteem for the deceased.

Duvauchelle's Racing Club.—A public meeting to consider tho advisableness of form-* ing a race course in Mrs Shadbolt's paddock will on Saturday next at 8 p.m., at the Somerset Hotel. Deaths.—lt is with great regret we record ? the death of the youngest "daughter of Mr and Mrs Penlington, which took place yesterday. The funeral takes place to-morrow at 2 p.m. We also note the death of the third daughter of.Mr F. Cross, which took place on Sunday. The deceased young lady was formerly a pupil at the Akaroa High School, and was a sister of the Head Master. Late Cable News.—ln consequence of the objections raised by the French, the Berlin Exhibition will probably be held in 1898 instead of 1900. The municipality has been in«= vited to guarantee feu millions.—A meeting will take place between the Emperors of Germany, Austiia, and Russia next month at Polo, on the Adriatic. — D. Wood and J. Hempton, two of the New Zealand athletic team, have broken down, and will not run again in England.—Count Yon Caprivi, the German Chancellor, announces that before Prince Bismarck made his visit to Vienna he (Count yon Caprivi) a circular hoping that the Great Powers would not attach any importance or weight to the ex-Chancellor's utterances-in the Press regarding Germany's foreign policy.—At the enquiry into the Lambeth poisoning case, the Countess of Russell deposed to receiving a letter alleging that her husbaud, from whom she recently unsuccessfully sought a divorce, had poisoned the girl Clover with strychnine. —Mr Gladstone is being severely heckled by his opponents in the course of his election campaign, and he is reported to be greatly irritated at the persist tent attacks levelled against him. He is also suffering from a cold. — The returns so far give the Conservatives 124, Unionists 19, Liberals 91, Labour members 3, Nationalists 4. The net gain of the Gladstone party is 7. —A body of three hundred police tried to protect the Unionists at Pittsburg, but the strikers opened fire on them with revolvers. The police replied with volleys from their Winchester rifles. The strikers then hastily erected a fort of steel bars, and garrisoned it with a thousand men. They also procured cannon, with which a fire was opened on the police who tried to land from the river. After a brisk fight, the police were ultimately obliged to surrender, and were then allowed to depart., Thirty .eight men were killed, but the loss was mostly on the side of the strikers, only a few policemen being included. Hundreds of strikers are still concealed ready to shoot the police if they attempt to land again.—From Bordeaux reinforcements have been shipped to Dahomey, the Dahomeyans having captured Bagray and destroyed the Catholic, missions. They have also burnt three priests and three nuns. The French troops eventually defeated the natives. — A large fire is raging in St. John's, New Bruns-* wick. Government offices, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Methodist churches, colleges, Masonic Temple and hundreds of factories and houses have gone. Patliament buildings and Government house are threatened—in fact the whole city is endangered and 3000 people have been rendered homeless.—ln the elections the total Liberal gains are fifty, and Government gain twenty. The returns at present are Tories 191, Unionists 24, Gladstonians 163, Nationalists 24, Parnellites4.—At the Athletic Meeting in Paris, Harold Batger won the too metres hurdles handicap, with L. Cuff second. Bredin won the 400 metres flat, with P. Wood second. In the 400 m.tres hurdles Batger, who finished second, beat the French record. —Lord Sheffield has cabled stating that he has abandoned the project of bringing out another cricket team next summer owing to an unexpected difficulty in getting a good team together.