The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1892.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1675, 2 August 1892, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1892.

Ourselves. —In consequence of the Government appointing Thursday, as : Arbor Day, the AKAROA Mail will be published ou Saturday next, August 6th, in> stead of. Friday, August sth. St.''Peter's Young Men's Association. —This Association give an entertainment to-

night, to conclude with an-hour's dancing

Duvauchelle's Racing Club.—A public meeting will be held at Mrs Chamberlain's on Saturday next, at 8 p.m., io!;consider advisablehess of construtftrrig- 'a* race course in Mrs Shadbolt's paddocks. •!

Big Parsnips. — Messrs-Rhodes. Bros., have grown sortie enormous parsnips this Autumn. Some of the specimens are at least ten inches in diameter and are the largest ever seen by our agricultural reporter. Arbor Day.—The programme for Thursday appears elsewhere. A meeting of Committee, at which all are requested to attend, as matters of special importance will be brought forward, will be held this, Tuesday evening at the Oddfellows' Hall, side room, at

7.30 p.m. .; ONUku School.—At the Btiard of Educa* (fan, a memorandum wa_ received from the

Department, offering to transter to the Board ; the school at Onuku, which was about to b'e'j closed, as a Native school. It was resolved to I make enquiiyas to the number of European! children* that would attend the school, unci to 'consider ;the matter at the next meeting..

Mr Easton's Mission. —It is notified elsewhere, Mr Easton will conduct a week's mission in Akaroa and Robinson's Bay, at dates appearing elsewhere. Mr Easton by his earnest appeals and lucid arguments has attracted many and created the desire to hear him again in a great many instances. Naval and Military Settlers'.Claim. A number of replies in conaection with these claims have recently been received-by'tha applicants in this district from the Chief Comrriissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch, generally of antunsalisfactory nature. The objections urged by the Commissioner in his replies being usually of a techincal nature and not such as are. considered to be in the spirit of the Acts regulating:the matter. Mr Mc Gregor, who has we understand all along taken an interest in the subject, it will be seen by advertisement asks applicants to meet him at hishouse.on Friday evening. A Parliamentary Committee was appointed the other day in connection with the matter of which bythe way the member fof'the district is one to invistigate claim's, and as it is understood their report will be a final one, it is of; importance that immediate and joint action shall be taken at once. We can pnly say it is surely better to give land;to old ! and settlers than to hand it over to the submerged tenth. J

Late Cable News.—"The Times" contends it is impossible for Mr Gladstone to devise a policy that will enable him to retain his majority.—The "Vossische Zeitung "describes English missionaries in German Africa as setting about their work with the Bible io one hand and a rifle in the other, and demands their expulsion.—A gang of robbers in Warsaw murdered a famity of six, stabbing the parents with knives, and dashing the children's heads against a wall.—The British Medical Associa* tion has decided to,admit women. — H. M. Stanley considers that concerted action of the nations is the only way to suppress slavery, and condemns the AntUSlavery Society.—MiGladstone will mpve a vote of• .want of confidence on August tjth. Mr Chamberlain", in" the course of a speech, said the Unionist party will have no share in the shameful surrender of Ireland; to anarchy and disorder.—lntense heat is being experienced throughout America. Fifty deaths are reported from sunstroke at Chicago.—Dr. Collins, formerly attached to the Horse Guards, was convicted of forging promissory notes for £1500,, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.—A Dundee whaling expedition will cruise in the vicinity of the Falkland Islands, but will make no attempt to explore the Antarctic ocean.— An article in " Blackwood's Magazine " says that New Zealand, Australian, and American meat forms one-third of the total consumption of London.—The death is announced of Viscount Sherbrooke, (Hon. Robert Lowe), a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and distinguished politician, aged 81.^—Mr Chamberlain, addressing a meeting in Birmingham, ridiculed Mr Gladstone making overtures to the Liberal Unionist party, unless based on the condition of his abandoning Home Rule.— Gholera has appeared at Kharkoff arid Trebizond. In consequence of the epidemic the lair at Nijni-Novogorod will be closed at an early date.—A futile attempt has been made to assassinate Count Oakuma, the leader of the Japanese progressist party, and Viscount Kuo, Minister of Justice. —Mr Gladstone is confined to his bed with a cold. It is reported that he had. .3' slight fjt at Harwarden early in the week. ... It is intended that the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament shall be a-hundred deaths from sunstroke are reported ; in New York. Trains have stopped running and the severe heat has decimated horses. Business is at a standstill.