The Akaroa Mail TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1897.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2135, 16 March 1897, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1897.

LKFr OdTi—Account of inquest, correspondence ,and much other matter unavoidably held over.

Accident. —An accident occurred to Mr Wi McCullongh a few days ago, and ho had to cnme in to the doctor, who found several ribs broken.

Factory Inspection*—Mr Ei Sorenson. the Dairy Expert, has inspected the Le Bon's Bntter Factory, and reports most favourably. Personal.— Mr R. Paton, the genial host of the Hill-Top Hotel, has been aerknsly ill, bui aiq glad to record he is wow on tut: \v«y to recovery^ Land and Income Tax.—Notice appear elsewhere that all returns regarding land and mortgages the'eon must be madei P-r icula'S in advertisement.

The Wbathek. —The be.iutiful weather is being much enj :ycd anil is doing a vaafc amount »f g > f, d* feed being more plentiful than we have ever seen it bet ore at this season of I he year.

New Plymouth Petroleum —Oil is now flowing from, the p-troleuni well at Mo uroa at the rate of fifty barrele per day*

Dentistry. Mr C-ttlin, surgeon dentist will not be leaving Ak iroa at pio3ent, and may be consul ed at Mrs Par3ou»\ Balguerie atn-et. The Jane Douglas.—The Agents notify the s.<. Jane Donga* will mike the annual gr-'ss-seed cxcursi." on Mondiy next, Match 22nd, leavinu Pij-ton Bay at 730 a.m. and Lyttelton o•> retu>n trip at 6 p.rm For etc. s c advertisem; 11*1

Akaroa Boating Club.—The annual Cfub r.'ces w-re s'nrte I U>t week with ihe Double Scu'lSj resu'ti'ig as follows :— G. Penling'on bnw, J. Vvcolill str.. 1 ; J. Brookes bow, S. E. Wolirt-ye str., 2, Won by two lengths. C. Newton bow, Ft Perham str , 1 ; A. Rhodes bow, T. Penlington str., 2. Won by default. Final round—C. Newton bowi F» Perham str., I ; G. Penlington bow, F* Perham str., 2. Won by three feet after a splendid race home* Pair Oar /first heal), C. Newton bow, J. .'Hemingway s'r , 1 ; G. Penlington bow, J. WoodiU str lr 2. Won by ons length. The second heat of the Pair will be rowed this evening* Butler... — Butler appealed agunet his extradition, on the ground that a British ship was equivalent to British territory. The Circuit Court refused to entertain the app»al, and Butler has now applied to the Supreme Court! The Sydney police have received information from Detective Roche confirming the statement that Butler sent a cheque for £1000 to Sydney signed Havwo~>d. Beyond this nothing wiil be known till the ktt<?r containing the cheque arrives, but fu'ther enquiries in Sydney and Adelaide have failed to discover any money to the credit of Butler or bis eever?l aliases. A supposition put forward is thit Butter has obtained a loan from bis defending attorneys on the strength of a mythical £1000. Ellesmerb Licensing Election. — The ' Pi ess ' under the heartiag of • Little River' states it is announced that the following gentlemen w>ll be nominated as members of the EUesmere Licensing Committee:— G. Armstrong, jun., Akaroa; John Barnett, Leeston;A;J- Joblio, Little River; John Rennie, Doyleston; and Eli Scott, Pigeon Bay*—We may state that these are only a part of the representatives that are likely to come forward} representing one section of the comniunity. Other nominations appear elsewhere.

AUSTRALIAN. —A sensational robbery has occurred at Coolgardie railway station, where £1159 in notes and gold were stolen. It was a hot night, end the Stationmaster left a window open, his trousers, in the pocket of which waa th? key of the safe, being within reach. —The Cbief Secreta r y has received a communication from the British Cooanl at Asuncion, intimating that, owing tn internal dissension, the Paraguayan Government will wind up the afluirs o£ the New. Australia Settlement Company, and divide the assets among all the members.—The German ship Lika, from Brazil to Newcastle, put into Sydney for repairs. Dn>iug a dense fog on February 24th she crashed into an immense iceberg, the force of the impact CJueing very great damage to the vessel. Inferior Dairy Produce, —Referring to the state of a recent shipment of butter for the English market from Wellington, the ' New Zealand Dairyman' says that ' putrid fat' and carfc grease ' are the only terms that could be applied to it. The quality was not only disgraceful, but the packing—in imitation parchment paper—was equally disc>editable. Though the price paid by the middleman— 3d per pound—may give him a better return than be got from the finest creamery; the injury done to the industry is irreparable. Further down the writer asks of what use it ie for Government to spend large sums annually for instruction, foi grading and cool storage, if such ' rotten muck' is allowed to le-ve the colony* It admits that the fault lies with dairymen,, and points out that the man who makes bad butter is a despoiler, for he not only interferes with the reputation of the colony's product, but he lowers the profits of the producers of first-class goods. All honest dairymen should demand legislation to prevent the exportztiou of inferior good Transvaal.—The : Cape Times' asserts that the Transvaal is mak'ng determined efforts to republicmise the Cnpe Parliament and including burghers to pledge themselves tn assist the Trmsvaal if it is attacked by a European Power President K>uger w;ib entertained at a banquet at Bloemfontein yesterday. In the course o c his speech he said it was not intended to work against the Queen's rights in South America* He wag oware that the Transvaal will abide by the Convention. The Queen was a difficult woman, and it was necessory to appioach a closer union with tbe utmost cautijn. He hoped to see th.2 union of the whole of Africa-

Latk Cable—The Indian Famine β-elief Fund amounts to £411.000. The Queen has contributed an additional £500.—Mrs Dale, widow of the Rev. Dr. Dale, was burned to death at Bath through reading in bed.— The Royal Niger Company has succeeded in abolishing slavery in the territory under its c jntroii—The Senate has recommended that the Alaaki boundary trea'y be ratified without amendment—The Queen has started on a visit to Nice. President Faure will have an interview with Her M<yesty at Noisyle see, a town in th? Department of Seine. — Mr Lommone, a colonial fiau'ist, sails for Australia by the Himalaya.—He has engaged Mark Hambourg. a Russian ppnist and his brother Jakoff Hambourg, violinist for a tour of the colonies, commencing in July.— Twenty-five thousand t'oops will line the sheets through which the Queen paeses to S\ Poul's on June 22nd. The Queen's procession will pa*e tbiough Piccadillly, St* Jam?s's Squire, Pal jylall, TraMear Square, tlie Strand, F.'eet Street, Ludgate HiU to St. Paul's The return:route wll be by London Bridge, the Borough, Westminster Bridg?, Parliament Street and Whitehall to Buckingham Palace*—The Apollinaris and Johannis, two natural mineral water Companies, have agreed to amalgamatei Tfle J united capital amounts to £3,230,000-