The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2069, 10 July 1896, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896.

Akakoa County Council.—This Couoeil meets at usual place and hour on Saturday

next.

Akaroa ANti Wainujt Road Board.— This .Board give .notice that a meeting will be held on thelsth hist; at noon to confirm the Bads action in closing roada through Reserve 93G, Wainui. , , ~

Egypt.—The railway hss been co'mple'ed to Ferkeh. Nine deaths have occurred from. cholera among the troops at Wa*ji Haifa,. The Egyptian troops have advanced to Kosheh. Ibis reooi;ei that 20.000 Dervishes',/ who are resolved t<> light, are massing at Dungola. T-liers is svme tension between Osman Dfgiia and the Khalifa, owing to (he latter denuding the Suakim district of men and arjns/ , _ _ .',,.;„-.;..;...■ _

Domain Board.—We are informed, that an error crept into local furnished, us of Inst meeting of the Domain Boird, in which it was sta'eel Mr Munro of the Survey Depigment advocated survey of Domain. The correspondence from that eent'ennn was, we understand, of a technical character,.and was sent to Mr Combes, not the Domain Board.

Cricket. —In the.University Cricket match Oxford had to get 330 to win, and seo> ed the required runs for the loss of six .wickets only. The Australians won the match against Hampshire by an inning? and 125 runs.

Australian News.—A new gold field has bsen discovered in the Alexandra district. Two brother's raised five tens of stone, from which they got over twenty-nine ounces of gold.—A steamer has arrived at Townsvil'e from Japan with several hundred Japanese labourers for the plantations.

An Akaroa Boy in Wellington.—At the rehearsal of the Wellington Liederlafel on Friday night, the conductor (Mr Parker) welcomed Mr Lnurence Watkins to the Society, mid spoke in complimentary terms of Mr Watkins' counedion with the Christclnuch Liedertsfel. Mr Wstkins made a suitable response, and that Liedertafel wnrk gave him much plepsure.

The Pomahaka Incipknt.—The inquest on the body of Mary Matson, found in a lagoon on the banks of the Pomahaka river, was formally opened at Lawrence and adjournedto the Is'h inst. A post mortem examination was made by Drs. Sutherland and Nichol. The body was much decomposed, and it will be a difficult matter to identify it. Matson snd the woman Clark have admitted - that the body is that of Mrs Matson, and it is intended to take up a sisteiof Matson to Lawrence in the hope that she msy identify it. The post mortem examination revealed two wounds on the head, but the skull, was pot fractured. Probably a theory will have to be set up that the woman was first stunned, then tied up in two sacks, and thrown info ihe river. Carl Matson and Hannah Bertha Clark, the prisoners, were brought to Duoedin and locked in gaol. It is understood'that the evidence gathered so far is somewhat slender.

Outside News.—Three prisoners named Alky, Lukoshuski and Aikman escaped from tlie custody of a ward»r, while engaged in excavating at the back of the T-nan-ild gaol. Alley rushed a warder named O ! Reilly, and got possession of his rifie. While they were struggling Lukoshuski seized the warder; and Aikman struck him with a heavy stone, inflicting a nasty gash. The prisoners then made off, carrying the rifle with them. They are still at liberty, and have got into the back country.—The Salva'ion Array officers have been granted permission to visit the gaols in connection with prison rescue work, arid the Government has pl-iced the Immigration Barracks at Clnistchurch at the disposal of the Army. The Government has agieed that New Zea'and shall be represented at the Salvation Army exhibition, of products in London in August next.—Mr George Fisher, M>yor of Wellington, stated at the annual supper of Wellington Poultry Society that he had kindly recollections of poultry, as it was by the sale of pigeons in Melbourne, when he .'Was'a young man, lie raised enough money to bring him to New Zealand.—Miss Cunningham, sixteen, years of ag&, employed as' a mechinist at Mr M. O'Biien's boot fjctdry, Christchurch, met wi'h a serious accident,, .by which her sca'p was completely tom off.'\ A companion had dropped a scew , ; which Miss Cunningham ■ endeavoured (o find. In doing so she put her head over the boards which a.re placed .to prevent the mechinisfc's feet and dresses from coming in contact with the driving shaft. While looking over, her hair, which was hanging loose, was ciUglit by a nut on the sh ft, and her sca'p was almost immediately torn off— Intelligence has been received at Cambridge that a Native :at Mauugatautau h«d shot his wife. " The alleged cause was jealousy; A constable has left for the scene of the tragedy. |

J. S. Dqdds, Agent JJossby's " Wahoo." . Positive cure for heartburn, acidity, pains after eating.

;'--- , his patients to cill a? soon as convenient;as he wishes to" return to Chiistchurch on Saturday, 18bh, if possible.

S.M. Couih , .—At this Court yesterday, before A. H. Westenra,. E»q , and His Worship the Major, J Aldiidge was fined 5s and co?ts for kicking a dog. Mr Poita appeared for complainant, Mr J. Rod'igues.

Crktk —The Cretans elected a temporary G6vcrnrnent and proclaimed,a union, wiih Greece,-The Christian delegiteto-'tho A;s?embly rVas resigned.. The Powers are. urging Greece to prevent shipment of arms to Crete, and to advise the innabitahts to desist froniMefiance of Turkey. \\ A: numberofithe leading; rehels:are disposed to discuss, a rnbdification of the H-ilepp , ! Convention.

South Africa.—Sir H. R"bin«on has been elevated to th.3 peeraEe. He returns lo the Cape in the middle of August. The Afrikander Corps: declined to be enrolled fS troops at five shillings per day,- and petitioned Pres'dnit Kmper for aid to enable them to leave Rhodesia The Transvaal Government is ordering six thousand rifles from •'Germany. Colonel Plummer, after a sharp contest, captured Tessa's stronghold, with a nurnb?r of women, cattle and sheep; The Matabele lost one hundred arid the troops twenty-three.

Late Cable.—The .'Times' states tint the Government decision to make India pay a portion of the cost of the Suakirri B-igade Causes indignation and surp'ise in India. Many members of the House of Commons condemn.the action.—Eu=s'a is reported to b=: s , eking to es'abHsh a Bank at Prldn to collect a revenue nod canducfc all tie Chinese Government business —The termory between Uganda vnd. the. Congo Fiee State has'been gazet'ed as w'tiuti the-protectorate of Ug-.nda. —L-uly Ma'vßliyh ws drowned in a pond at Oobnam Hall. Her elotlr s were found on the hank. The ve'<iict was •' SivcHe while in a sate of insanity " It i- - rnmou'od that love was th° cu'6 of the deed. ' Time' , ■states that ifiJv othe , a>l >nies ir itod with Vict'-ria in creat : ng a r<-*gn! r -s'anWd for Australia" produce, the aeti n woul! con-■a-i'ute a feeler-' tion of t* c Aiis f ra T ian 'Xijort wh'clt, w'th fe'er t ; on-for defence purp<'s?s, wou'd be a valuable of politic-il federation liundrvd am) fifty members o( the Honourable Artillery of Boston visiting London have been permitted to march in the streets with their arms and carrying flags. They are being largely feted in the town, (and her Majesty has consented tq receive them.—Tbeearthquake wave which devastated the coast of Japan rose thirty-five feet in tbe Hawaiian Islands.