The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1896.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2081, 25 August 1896, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1896.

Left Out.—Much interesting matter i< anavoidab'y beld over.

County Council.-T >is O'linci' meets. at usual place and houi' cv S (unlay next.

Okaik's Dairy Factory. — Tne annua 1 meeting takes plac- on Satudy v x . August 29'hEolip.se—The eelip-e of the m on. o•Sunday w->* seen to meat ;>■ l Vintage n Akaroa.

Messrs Tribe and'Co—This firm announce that they close their dr<p«ry bu*' ness in Akaroa on Saturday next

Akaroa County Farmers' Association. —Tnis Association meets at 'Du'vauchell-'s on Saturday afternoon next. The business includes the consideration of the report of the Horse Parade and Show Committee and the making of final arrangements for same.

The Australian Cricketers. — The 'Chronicle,' referring to the Aus'ralian cricketers, considers that their s'urdy and even play proves them to be superior >o the English eleven. The Australians won the match against Gloucestershire by an inniugs and 54 runs.

New Zealand Cheese.—A private letter received in Wellington states that a sample of New Zealand cheese, of cubical shape with upright edges rounded off, which arrived in I>ndon rby tbe Kaikoura, attracted much favourable attention among experts, who suggested that alight bulge given to the sides •would be an improvement. The shape is the invention of Mr J. T. Lang, Government Dairy Inspector, and gi v es greiter weight per ton measurement than the ordinary circular shapes. Christchurch Supreme Court—ln the further cases of v Reidiugton, for forgery, the jury returned a verdict «f ' Not guilty.' The Crown Prosecutor entered a • nolle prosequi' in the remaining charges. In the case of Eegiua v A..G, Jagp, for perjury, the jury returned a verdict of ' Not guilty.' Frederick Boyd and Walter Johnston.'two old offenders, were found guilty of 1 re-king and entering, and each sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Accident —Constable Thomas Ward fell off the train in the Lyttelton tunnel on Thursday night. He was on the 5.30 p.m. train going to catch the steamer to Wellington. Several people saw th? man fall but said nothing about ifc, and he laid iv the tunnel all night. Laborers in the tunnel found him on Friday morning and took him to the casual ward where he di-d. His skull -was fractured by the fall. At the inquest the jury in a rider censured the unknown person wh« had seen Ihe accident and not reported it, aud the railway authorities for not providing better sitting accommodation.

South Africa.—President Kmqer told an interviewer that the hostile intentions attributed to the Boers were an absolute invention. Captain Barnes was killed in a skirmish with at Manquende's Kraal. Secombe and Mnjunda desire to surrender. They have been granted an armistice to enable them to consult their followers, who number some 2000.

Outside News.—A telegram from New Plymouth says :—Petroleum is flowing gently from the well at Moturoa, at the rate of about four barrels a day. Operations were suspended yesterday, on account of the absence of the directors Shares in the company are changing bands at a premium.-— An expiosion lias retarded work.—lt is expected that negotiations for the purchase of the Glennurk Estate by the Government will shortly be completed on terms mutually satisfactory:

Cattle Trespass. —At Auckland the other day a man charged under the Police Offence Act with having permitted hia cattle to be at largf, pleaded uot guilty, on tbe ground that as the animals were at large without h.U knowledge he could not be said to have permit'ed them to stray. His Worship considered the word ' permit' in the section rendered it essential for the police to prove that the defendant's cattle wandered with his knowledge. It was certainly an offence for -cattle to be at large, but under the sectoin knowledge would have to be proved. The case was dismissed. In two other cases, in which the defendants simply pleaded guilty L fines were imposed. Late Cable. —Two thousand troops have been sent to Dongola to reinforce tho3e already there —There was an enormous attendance at Sir J. E. Millais' funeral.— Professor Hilprechb4 of .Pennsylvania, ha* discovered in a cave at Nippur, Babylonian vases, on which are inscribed dates extending back ten thousand years.—The Prince of Naples will be married to tbe Princess Helene, ot Montenegro, in November.— Wilson. Til'ett, and Mann are carrying on a vigorous propaganda among seamen m the western ports of Europe. It is expected that there will be a general strike when a million men are enrolled by the Unions.—During artillery practice at Toulon several shots struck the warship Brennus, nearly "killing' Admiral Gervais.—A plot has been discovered to dynamite the Castle of Grandja. the residence of the Infanta Isabella. Many Anarchists bave been arretted at Barcelona. The Kansu rebels the Chinese and dispersed ,4* samps. The Chinese General, Lung,-' *&/f escaped by means of a disguise.—Li ffong Chang' refeniog to the double foreign tax, says that China is quite willing to open the Whole of ncr seaboard trade, but will not consent to the removal of the Likin, or inland tax. He consider it probable, in the event of the concession of theinceased duties, that China will borrow fifty millions- sterling for-the impose ol constructing railways and to increase the fleet.—lt ia rumoured that t'e Marquis of Duffe'iu is likely to succeed Lord Cadogan aa Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.— Autocais are now running about like cab*. —After being warned of his expulsion from Antwerp on a chaige of inciting men lo strike, Ben Ti'dett was arrested.

vßabthquakß.t-A sbarp shock of earthquake waa felt at 4.45 a.m. on Sunday.

BoBOtT&H 'C.OtTircit.-rr-The annual election takerplaceon September 10th. Nominations close at noon on Sepi ember 2nd.

•The Arctic Expedition.—Dr. Nans-ni •states that he-wijl. repeat the experiment of trying to drift across the Pole. His expedience on the expedition shows him it will be easier to accomplish the journey in sledges from Franz Josef Land. 'The Times' suggests that Norway, England and Australia should subsidise an Antarctic expedition to be commanded by Dr. Nan sen-. Dr. Nansen's vessel,the Fram, has arrived atTromsae, the most Northern province of Norway. Those of the crew who we*e left behind in the Fram -succeeded in navigating her safely back when the ice broke up. They called at Spitzbergen, nnd report that up to a week ago M. AndrfSe had been unable to a start in bis balloon as the -winds had been adverse. If Dr. Nansen's vessel, the Fiam, had been embedded in the ice in East New Siberia it probably would have drifted to the highest lattitude at the.North Pole.

Turkish Troubles.—-Thetrodps in Crete have been ordered to retire to the towns. The Porte has informed fcfie Powers that the sending of reinforcement! to' Crete by Greece is straining the relations between Tuckey and th«t country. Turkey ihas mobilised--4*20,000 troops. The Porte complains to the 'Powers of twenty-four Greek officers with rifles and ammunition, being 1-nded in Crete. Lord Ro-ebury declines to advise England to intervene alone in Crete. Turksh. troop* continue raiding in Macedonia, and have massacred eighty aged villages. A thousand Kurdish, caValiy ha""*' arrived at Stauiboul, much to ihe' alarm oi the.A'meni in- in ihe city and of tlie Yr>U"g Tll'kMl Purfcv. A bad of Albanian'- muiderel the Turk'sh Consul at V/ana.