The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1896.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2105, 20 November 1896, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1896.

Borough Council—Notice re lease of wharf appetra elsewhere. d Cbicket.—• We regret, to be obliged to, hold over correspondence frcm Mr Henning and others re Mr Mason's bowling. The following will represent Akaroa in their matoh with United Bays at.Duvauchelle's to-morrow :—Berker, Buchanan, Chaplin, Goodwin, Harrison, Helliert (Captain), Masefield, Munro, Oldridge, - .Robinson, Tripe. Emergencies—Black and ijelievte. -i • GOLD.—An extraordinary richgold di-in covery has been made near Georgetown, Queensland by a mioer named Hogan, 1- Be bottomed ft 4ft and obtained 30Cbz ' of gold from a small, quantity of *.tor-6~ ' A big rush set in, and the whole locality has been pegged ou\ Board off Education. —ai Wednesday's meeting, the Le Bon's Bay Committee , wrote applying,for a relieving teacher in the pi ice of the tniptress, as to whose . health they enclosed medisal certificate. "-. As. the average attendance was only 36 it was consider* d unnecessary tc incur theexpense of sending another toaohc-r. The .*; arrangement for employing a monitor ...' could be continued. A renewed application j i for assistance"4n 'educating their fb'ur j , children was received frooa the residents 1 'in the Flea Bay docality. Tt was pointed I , out tliat .the number, of children was not j , sufficient yto. form a claim such as the 1 Board could comply It was agroed , J to call forv tenders for painting the Go- | . Vt.rnor'r'Jßay school.

..Meetings. •— The - Akiroa Wainui Road Board and Farmers' Association meet n to-morrow at DuvJucht-lleV. '.. P Pharmacy Examinations. the PharmacyVßoard examinations in Auckland, Mr t T. J. ,Vangioni, son of our eateexnel fellow ' townsman, passed .in pharmacy, materia c medica and chemi-try. - Football.—The.Periin-uil.vFootball Asso- j ciation cup, won by Akaro* t'ns se'son, has i arri-tel, and will be prc-eiited to the Club by < Dr. Laing, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, on Thursday next, 26th inst. The Mayoralty.—Messrs Gi Armstrong junr. and Freeman Potts have been nominated for the" mayoralty. The election takes, place on Wednesday, the 25th iust, and Mr Potts notifies that he will address the burgesses on Monday evening in the Town Hall, and Mr Armstrong at the same place jOn Tuesd»y evening. Panorama To-night Mr Robson, who has long been favourably known in the panorama business will exhibit a fine new set of scenes on the China-Japan war in the Akaroa Oddfellows' Hall. The content was the first occasion on which modern sh'ps and guns were used in actual warfare. " The subject is therefore of unusual interest.. As Mr Robson ia a good speaker, the pictures well painted, and the price of admission low, there will no doubt be a very large attendance. Pedigree Stock Sale.—The usual pedigree stools sale took place at tne Show Grounds, Addington, on Saturday. Amongst 1 Peninsula buyers we notice Mr G- Fleming , bought a Tamwoith boir for from Mr Rowe. and also 4 baconers at 2|gs. while Mr V. V. Masefield purchased 4 Lincoln rams at 6gs.from Mr C. WitheU, of Brookside ; Mrs J .a. Priest, Little Akaloa, bought the shorthorn bull Westward Ho at I2£gs; Mr W. BirdliDg s»n. bought another shorthorn named Ronny at2Jes ; and Mr W. McKay, Wainui gave 16gs for an.anim-*l of the same class n.med Lord Cbanoellor. Criminal Sessions. —The ctiminal sessions of the Supreme Cpu**t were conclude! on Monday. the G-and Jury returned true bills in all the cases sent lorward except that of John Whitburg,. charge! wi h breaking and entering and theft at Ashburton The following-a-e the re-nl's not telegraphed on Monday :-~-Julius Danton, <or ln-eaking and enteriny and theft, w*s .-*..*>,'eticed to four years' impris'iritnent. lobelia Alexauder. foi-jjery (two case-), twelve months' imprisonment. Tbos. White, breaking and entering and theft, not guilty. Etue«t Cleave Jones, breaking and entering and theft, not guilty. Artistic—Mr T. E. Taylor is alw-ys euterpiising and novel, and now sends us another proof of this in the sh-pe of a series of] views of Akaroi and the district* most artistically photographed and nicely mounted. Besides the Akaroa pictures, which include many of.the most attractive localities, are views of tbe Hill-Top Hotel, Duvauchelle, Le Bon's, Okain's, Litile Akaloa and French J?arm, and it would be hard to imagine a nicer present to send to absent friend*. He also sends us a charming photographic Christmas cird, in which aro grouped together glimpse,? of A German Bay, Newton's waterfall, Ilfracombe House, the Domain and other loc-d spots of beauty. As will bo s<°en by the advertisement, the pices of these artistic productions are extremely reasonable. Italy and Abyssinia.—Peace w»s concluded in Abyssinia on October 26th, and the ceremony was conducted with much solemnity. The treaty of Ucc-a'a has been abrogated, and the autonomy of Etythrea recognised. The frontier is to be delimited within a year, Italy engaging in the meantime not to concede any territory. The Italian prisoners are to be sent to .Hair-ah, then to Zfilah, and will be released on the 20tb. The expenses in this connection aro to he borne by the Italian Government. The treaty with Abyssinia is ratified. The Kaiser and the French President have congratulated the King oi Italy. -Motor Car Race.—Thirty motor cars fitted with all sorts of tyr?s, started on a race from London to Brighton on November 14th, the distance being fifty miles. An immense crowd watched them at various points, andjmbouoded interest was displayed in the novel spectacle.. Both the weather and the roads we*e unfavourable to such an experiment and seventeen machines were disabled, but the rest wer« fairly successful, ' two of the " Bollee " type occupied four hours upon the journey. At a banquet held afterwards Lord Winchelsea claimed that this was the beginning of a great national industry, One autocar occasionally ran 25 miles au \ hour. ...Hundreds of cyclis's accompanied the machines. Late Cable.—ln the course of an interview r Prince Bismarck said bis recent revelations were useful as a corrective of the French belief that the support of Russia was only assumed. In any case his disciosu'es had a tendency to strengthen peace. —President f Kruger, interviewed on the subject of the • indemnity, said a claim will be put in earlj in December for a reasonable amount, but it will be presented to the Imperial Govern ment not to the Chartered Company.—The Transvaal -Government is commandeering I the Uitlanders to prevent tinderpest, but y wealthy Deople are allowed to engage I substitutes.—Niagara Falls are being utilised as motor power for electric lighting and street conveyance in BuflMo — The town of Caudia . ,in Crete is placarded with appeals t» the Mos'em population inciting them lo proclaim . a holy war.—The ' Djily Telegraph' says that Elvira, a daughter of Don h*s eloped r with Count Folchi, an Italian painter, carry- ' ing with her twelve thousand pounds worth ol 5 jewels.—The Russian Government propose to • expend eight million roubles on the navy during tho next decade. The* Bigamy Case—The case of bigamy against Bosher; or Brouoherier as he was called; for which Mr Rodrigues and Mrs Sergison had to go to Wellington to give evidence has concluded. A ' Press' telegram says:—ln the charge of bigamy against - Stephen Bosher, the evidence showed that f he was married to Josephine Libeau at Lyttelton seventeen years ago; and in 1892 j married Mary Ann Recce, of Wellington. ," Before his second marriage the accused stated, ' in reply to ,a question, that he had not previously been married. A gaol warder produced a letter, writ ten by the accused since his 5 confinement at the gaol to the a cond Mrs • Bocher. Thi3 letter admitted that accused • was married, as stated, at Lyttelton, but • asserted, further that two years after that . marriage he had to go home to Franoe on business. In France he was arrested for having failed to do his military duty and for 1 being naturalised in New Zealand without his -PBj*ents consent. A sentence of three 'years' impiisonment was passed upon him, after serving part of which he was sent as a • soldier to Africa, where he served five years, endeavouring all the time by letters to.get I the British andJNew. Zealand Governments to | obtain his release. VHis letters, however, were never sent. Ulfcimately.he returned to New Zealand, and on his arrival, telegraphed to Akaroa, asking his-.wife was still living, to which ihe received a reply from her that she was married again. He then sent another ' telegram;—'• Shall I come or not?" "The answer to. whioh was " No." He considered that he and the second Mrs Bosher were lawful-:man and wife. The accused was committed foj trial —-Thy New-iZea~ land-Times ■says thti-S Stephen Bosher, whoreoeived two yearß' ( imprisonment ye-*ter-" cay for bigamy 'and: theft, is to be charged wit'i cotnmit ing the Peitone. murder but the -police Hale the announce-" ment is prema'ur-, a n d po in forma tida ' lias yet been 1 id, f

_ )ll.'*>»—i— ——I■*—*—■** . * r ' "' '' j— Lake Forsyth LoAN. statutory L meetings in connection with, this *loan are pablished elsewhere. Cheese Prizes.—We are pleased to record-;, that ,Mr Wiiiiam McKay, of Wainui, t**-ok even better awards in the cheese prize list at the late Metripnlitan w Show than he was credited with in the list of. ri prizes, getting not uniy a highly commended f in the 56 lbs class, "but also a very highly ti commended in the export gee'ton. r Elector ax. —Air An«*on speaks at Gebbie'a l Valley to-night and Akaro* on Saturday; £ and Mr Montgomery apeak* at Little Akaloa g th's evening. The writs for thevgeneral fl election will be is«ued to-day, and the election will take place on Friday Dec. 4th Mr Anson had a goo J meeting at Leeaton on *■ Monday evening, but as in Mr Montgomery's ( i case, we shall only report his Akaroa speech. infulL "' I