The Akaroa Mail TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1892.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1673, 26 July 1892, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1892.

Akaroa'and Wainui Road Board.— This Board will meet on Saturday next, at usual place and hour. English Election.—The following is the final result of the elections :—Conservatives and Unionists, 314; Liberals and Home Rulers, 356. Majority for Gladstone, 42. Celebration.—Mr Stephen Hunt intends to celebrate the coming of age of the triplets with whom his wife presented him on the 31st of July, 1871, by a ball in the French Farm schoolroom, to which he has issued many invitations. The actual day being on a Sunday, the festivities will be held on the following Monday, August Ist. Outside News.—Mγ Allen is pressing the Minister for Public Works if he will communicate with the Railway Commissioners urging upon them the necessity for a reduction in the haulage rates for cheese and on milk conveyed by rail to dairy factories.—The black swan has been declared native game in the Canterj bury acclimatisation district. Sparrow Poisoning Day. —It is announced elsewhere that owing to July 31st, the day fixed on, falling this year on a Sunday, that Monday, August Ist, shall be substituted. Poisoned wheat can be procured lrom sixpenny worth upwards, either at the County Council Chambers or Mr Joyce at Duvauchelle's store, or from Mr Dodds, Ghemist, Akaroa. It is hoped the movement will be a general one and the plague lessened. The New Government. — Sir W. V. Harcourt is consulting the Radicals as to the advisability of demanding that the House of Lords shall not be permitted to force a dis» solution over Home Rule. An amendment will be moved to the address in reply in the House of Commons, with a view of showing that the country will not trust Lord Salisbury. Sir Vernon Harcourt will lead the House of Commons. Sir C. Dilke is in favor of granting autonomy to Wales and Scotland as well as Ireland. The friends of Mr Gladstone, and also his medical advisers, are pressing him to accept a peerage. Football. — Arrangements having been made with the Christchurch Club for a visit of their representatives to try conclusions with the Akaroa Football Club on Thursday week, 4th of August (Arbor Day), it is imperative that all members turn up to practise on Saturday next, 30th of July, so that the best district team available can be picked. As the Christchurch Club play a thoroughly scientific game, it behoves our defenders to look to their laurels and quickly get themselves into form, for on this occasion they will have a much stronger combination to compete against than either of the previous matches this season afforded. The following have been chosen to play against all comers on next Saturday afternoon: — Bruce, Lee, Thomson, Mora, Tayler, Watkins (2), Narbey (2), Penlington, Scott, Shadbolt and Glynan.

The Sydenham Licensing Cases.—lt is understood says the •• Press,' , that a petition to the Governor, asking him to remove the present Sydenham Licensing Committee, on the grounds given in the judgment of his Honor Mr Justice Denniston, is about to be circulated. The Licensing Committee, on the other hand, have, it is stated, withdrawn their consent to the permit under which the hotel* keepers are now keeping open. The police, howevef, have not yet received any instructions to take actiom A meeting of the Sydenham Prohibition League was held, and it was de» cided to circulate a petition for signature by the male and female adults in the Borough, praying the Governor not to remove the four Prohibitionists, members of the Sydenham Licensing Committee.

Late (Jable News,—lt is announced .that Rear-Admiral Smith succeeds Admiral Lord C. Scott on the Australian station.—A severe

*eale in the Irish Channel has caused many Shipwrecks. The Liverpool lifeboat, while engaged in the work of rescue, was upset and three of the crew drowned. - A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire cotton trade owing to a reduction of wages and increase oI hnurs.-For the present Madame Melba has abandoned her intended visit to Australia.Two men belonging to the schooner Undine have been arrested at Ascension Island, ana sent to Manilla on a charge of rnvrdenng most of the crew and seizing the vessel during a voyage to the Pacific. - The Coun ess of Donoughmore has been fined £20 for re> moving her daughter in a cab while suffering from scarlet fever, and failing to notify the owner of a lodging house.-A ComrmtU* of Congress reports that since the McKmley tariff came into force articles of consumption in daily use have been sold over 3 per cent, lower, while products have averaged 18 per cent higher and wages are 77 P« cent '*°? ve a the British standard. - Lightning killed a family of five at Richmond. Kentucky, and fired a school in Georgia, killing two persons and injuring several others—lt is reported hat a plot has been discovered in Paris to destroy the Bourse, Palais de Bourbon and Palais ac Justice. Several arrests have been effected.— \ French mission will leave for Morocco in September for the purpose of arranging a treaty with the Sultan on much the same lines as that recently suggested by the British representatives and rejected. The " Journal dcs Debats" declares that the reason of the British treaty failing was owing to the violent attitude displayed by its Commissioner (Sir Charles Ewan Smith).—At the Chelmsford Athletic Meeting Mr L. A, Cuff won the hurdles and the third prize in the ?2O yards hurdles.-Eighty of the Idaho strikers will shortly be arrested on a chaige of conspiring to murder thirty-nine owners!,lt is reported that a number of free labourers who were captured were burned to death.—Commissioner Smith has arrived at Tangiers, where the Vizier of Morocco and a Minister from Fez, are shortly expected in order to resume negotiations. Stirring details have been published of Mr Smith's coolness and courage during the dispute with the Sultan. — Dr. Koch intends visiting Russia for the purpose of obtaining cholera bacillus.—A marriage,,is being arranged between the young King Alexander of Seivia and a Russian Grand Duchess.