The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2072, 24 July 1896, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896.

Opbselvbs.-Owing to the impossibility of the regular despatch of mails yesterday, we go to press without our report of Wednesday's Adding: on Market and other interesting matte r s, and we fire farther "fchre-'Aened by the fact that this i-sue can hardly reach some of our readers at tbe usual time.

Nobth Steamer.—Attention is direct?d to the fact as adve'tiseii in this issue, that the s.s. Omapete will not ldave th* wharf here for Lyttel'.on uutii Tuesday morn- ■ ing the 28tli met.

Football.—At the last meeting of the OnterDury Rugby Union on Tuesday hsfc, an application from the Le Bon's Club to play E. Cu'ry and L. Ditely, of the Akaroa Club, was -referred to the latter club.

Mr Cattlix, surgeon dentist, will be leaving Aka'oa on. Wednesday monting next.

Rainfall for June. — During the last month rain fell at Akaroa on eleven days. The highest fa!l was 1.34 on 27th, and the total fall in inches for the titoiath was 4.83.

Football.—The matches Akaroa v. Le Bon's and Akaroa Second v German Bay had to be postponed owing to the bad weather. The tua! match has also been postponed for a week, as even if the weather were fine, the ground will be unfit to play on.

The Christchtjbch November Show.— Mr M. Mu'phy ieceived by the late mail from Home a handsome gold nieda', forwarded by the Shropshire Sheep Breeders' Assoc'ation for compe'ition at the November Show of the Canterbury A. and P. Association for the best Shropshire ram of any age. The " Lyttleton Timrs " Company gives a prize of £5 for the best pea of five bacon pigs the property of a bona fide farmer.

Borough School.—The tender of Mr J. J. Walker has,-we learn. be»-n accepttd by the Board of Education for the erection an-i repai'S to the out-biiildines of th's school. Ow'ng to natu c of the alterations the work will not be commenced until the midwinter holidays. wh ; ch cover the last week of Aueust, and first of September. The Committee are to b? commended in at last getting a defiuite result fiom the Board iv tbis muck wanted improvemenL

Vaccination.—For some considerable time past the Registrar of B'rt'js, &". hue bad frequent occasion to issue notices t> patents who either neglect or refuse to coii.ply with the provisions of the law in tlds co'ony making vaccinations compul sory. A few days ago » iarge batch of what the depaitmer t call fi.ial m t<ces wore issued frooi the office herp, and it is quit-i understood tliftt these ere realy final. If the law is not complied with at once, the Regutrar-Genera l inlends taking proceedings against deftiu'ters. Aβ tie legal penalties are eeriou?, not to mention natural consequences of neglect, we should fidviKO all those to whom notices have been nerved to at once put themselves in orde" , by seeing that the law is complied w^th.

.'•? PIKBTa " V. Baeby"s Bay ' Cracks.' —These two teams having met on thieedifFe"eat occasions, playing seveity-two games in ell. resulted in a win for the foimer by fo'ty-seven eeines to tweutjf.five. Refreshments of the bfst quality being provided for the visiticg team, three moss enjoyable even : ngs we c spent.

Personal—lt will no douht interest some of our reaiie's to hear that Mr Cam. Biown and Mis Biown of the Canterbu'y Hotel, Lyltelton,%ropose giving themsf-lves a holiday to fhe snnny is'ets of the Pacific and Oiient, They propose leaving Auckland in the Corinna fir.-t week in August for Ra"atonga and Tahiti, and will be absent for about ten weeks. The primary cause of- the trip is, we regret to say, tjaeetaJeof Misßrown's health. We are sure Mr %id Mrs Brown's fiiends wish them a very pleas; nt time, and that they will return jvith the object of their voyage fully accomplished.

Old Identities.—\Ve hear that Mr Burke of the Post and Telfgragh Department, Chiistchutch, is at present ha Aka'oa, on his annual holiday. Mr Buke is well and widely known as the chief of amateur and he is rilling up his time .in what will in the future be recognised as- a very important work, -viz. that of-caichinet the fleetme shadow ere they fly of several c/f our old identifies. Mr Burke in addition to his skill as a photog'apher adds the pen of a clever water, and as 'he sketches are intended for fhe coJumrjs ('J an illust'ated contemporary, little df>ubta welc.'ifne addition will bs made to wliat is new rpidly becoming anicent history, the story and thp stugglo of the first settlers on Banks. PeoinsuJ^.

Obituary.—The olier settle s and business men of a'l closes *'i ; l learn with the deepest regret nf the death ot Mr Heter Ouiitiinj.li;in, of <O-ristc l U'ch. 3 for nuny vows has been a household word, an I is synonymous with al that is .straight an i upright* in .poVic anfl priv.ae "life. Hi' end vas not ..lfcoge her nuexpec'ed, having suff r ; ng sone ri n» from a diseas' 'frurVi which his medic:«l aivisete gave no ho|*e of u'tiniato His many fiien 's a ' l d udmn-e , * ca "«t but le«rn «ith freliiga ' f ihe k en s syinp thy that his last dnys we ; e clouded with financial troubles. "He goee to liia ros as 'lie 'who bore witlinui abu-.e the grand old name of gentleman."

Sheep Returns—From a return jus' p'esented to Patliatnent we notice that ihe number of sheep in the col ny as at 30th Apiil last are less by 844 524 than at the same dte in 1895. The total ■nnmber in the Canterbury district last Apil was 5,080,625, th- hi»h'«t in a r .y district in the colony, but is 476.365 short of 'last year's number. The on'y district which ,ehoivs a substantial incieise is Wellington, <with 101,486 to its credit. The decrease in ihe South Island is chiefly account-d 'for by the losses sustained during the severe winter of 1895, the excess of deaths "over average being estimated at 700,000.

Queensland Ttck. —An Order in Council appears in the Gazette of 16th iußt. declaring the disease cffecing caitle known as the ' t'ck' is a disease und*r fhe Stock Act, 1893. This prohibits the'landing of-either ca'tle or hides in New Zealand from the colony ol Queensland ~The herds of that cilony are at present beine decimated by the te'rible pe*t. which b s i's original home in Te> a?. The animal aM it eggs possess an extraordinary vitali'y, the eega germinating in hides af'er being B^lfc , d for months. The pastpral'sts of New Ze lm*i are indebted to the Hon. Mr O mond for drawing attntionto the seriousness of the plagu* , , .and to the Govemineni for the prompt manner in which they have take.n the matter up.

Late Gable.—Tße Venezuelan c=>se presented by 'the Amevican Commission denies the Eug'liab version of the history of the sett'etnont. — " The Times" suggests that the drctruvs put forward, if allowed, will endanger laree.r infcetests than are "involved in a trivial dispute such as thafcfh quesfc'on.— The Queen will arbitrate in the frontier dispute between Chili and Argentine — Dr. Jimee n and his 'five as c oci»tes are being died before the Lord Chief Justice, Buon Pollock, and Sir Hemy Hawkins.—ln i'he cou'seofau interview Mr James Bryce savd he thought »that Lo*d Salisbury w.is overcautious and almost' Eimonrous in framing the prop-sals for arbitration wi'h Ame'ica. He declares that nine-tenths of the best Americana approve of the treaty.—Among the passengers by the mail at amer is B-jnzon the "Jubilee Plunger" who has gone to to letrieve his fortunes. —The mail steamer bungs a few additional particulars of the earthquake in Japin. Over seventy-three thousand Kves were lost.—One hundred and fifty miles of coast line were affected by the wave, and the whole of one town disappeared two thousand nine hunched and seventy-thi.ee houses being engulfed.