The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2139, 30 March 1897, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897.

Akaroa and Wainui Road-Board.— This Board meets on Satu'day next, Ap'il 3rd at usual place and hour.. Attention is called to notice elsewhere calling ior various tendeia and inviting applications for the post of foreman to the Board for the ensuing yean

Me Cattlin. Surgeon Dentist has been called to Christchurch, but will return to finish his woik at Akaroa very shortly.

SadtjLEKYjl— Akaroa is full of bargains, another line for the public at J. F. Earnabaw's clearing sale of saddlery, it ia there that yon will find your bargains:

Akakoa Hlgh School—We regret to notify that the He'd Master, Mr Harrison, is indisposed and that as a consequence the H'gh School is closed til Monday next. Firewood.—Mrs Mora gives notice th.it she will pros'cute persons talcing firewood without leave from her German Bay property. Others have mide the same resolve, so woodthieves had better be careful.

Thibnnial Valuation* —The Government has decided that the triennial valuation for local tatine purposes shall be delayed uutil Md'eh next year.

A Mishap. —We regret to record that the Rev. T. J. Smyth, whilst attending the Robinson's Bay picnic, broke a sinew in one of his legs and is incapacitated from active work for a time. No serious results «ie anticipated, however, if the limb is fully rrsted.

PersonalI —We regret to record that our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr Geo, Cheekily, had a paralytic strobe on F'iday, and is still very ill. Yesterday's report, however, shows Bi_n of relief, and we hope Mr Checkley will soon be able to again take a part in local government ma'tpr*. Indian Famine Relief Pond. — The Piesbytd'ian Church was crowded on Sunday night, when the Rev. D Jamieson preached (hesides Peninsu •> matte's) on the terrible distress in India owing to the f-mine. The address wbs most eloquent, and we are glad that the earnest appeal was not hearkened to in vain, and tbat those present recognised the urgency of tbe want by liberal conttibutions which amounted to £2 12s 3d.

Parliament and the Premier.—lt is officially announced that Parliament will be called together for the despatch of business this day week, Ap'il 6th. The chief business will be to sanction the Premier's visit to En|land and the granting of supplies. It is expected that the early session will close about the 11th of April, and that the ordinary session will be held about the middle of September. Mr and Mrs Seddon probably leave for England on April loth.

The New Goveknor.—The Gnvernme t has received a cablegram confirming the appointment of Lord Ranfurly as Governor of New Zealand. Lord Kanfurley has one son, fif'ecn years cf age, and two daughters, twelve and six respectively. The present Earl is (he fifth in succession. The founder of the family was Thomas Knox, who was M.P,. for Dungannon_ He was created Baron Welles of Dungannon, County Tyrone, in, 1781- His title of Vi-count No»thland d-tes from 1791. His son was created Baron Ranfurly in 1826, and Eail Ranlarly in 182 L The present Earl succeeded to to the litl** on the death of M_ brother in 1876. The.family seat is Northland in DiMEaniv-n-

U.S.S, Co.—The new steamers Moans and W'iik.ire, which have bsen built for the Union Company by Messrs Denny, will shortly **c ready for a' 3. The Moana, a splendid vessel of 4000 toos regis'er. intend'-d to replace the Monowai on the San Francisco-Auckland mail seivicej will leave for the colony ab>ut the end of March. She is a fast boat, and will be able, if necessary, to run at an average speed of seventeen knots. The Waikatc, which is intended for the intercolonial service, is a considerably smaller boat, and will not be so fast by a couple of knots per hour as the tyToana. She is not in so forward a condition as the latter, but is expt-cted to be ready for the trip outwards about the middle of April, The Waikare's gro-s tonnage is 3050. The Shooting Season. —Mr Bruce, the Secretary of the Acclimisation Society, has received no answer to his telegram re the opening of the shooting fe'son. Sportsmen are very decided as to the proper date of opening being April lati Great dissatisfaction is expressed in the Ellesmere district at the f Gazette ' notice that the season for shooting native game would open on Saturday, April 17th. Considerable agitation is now on foot to open the season on tbe usual date, April Ist. Should the authorities fix the date for tht; 17th of Aprilj some nfty sportsmen have agreed to commence shooting on the morning -.fthe Ist, and dely tbe 'Gazette notice. The alteration is very bard on the farmers who feed the ducks, wnich are very destructive to the pei crops in the vicinity of L'ke Ellesmere. At a mfp f- ng at Leeston on Friday the following r olutions were most enthusiastically canied :— '■ That the Ist of April ia the proper date to open the shooting season; and th*t this meeting strongly objects to any alteration in the date, as the f-riners feed the ducks,, and the cUte cannot be altered without irtfl'efcing hardship on the farmers. " Iv the event of the date being altered from the Ist April, that every farmer throw open his property, and invite people to shoot on and after Ist of April to the 17th of Apiil,

Coursing. - It is hoped all interested wil remember th*t the meeting re forming a C_nrsio_; Club will bt held at Mr Mill's roomst Akaroa, at 6 p-.ni. 10-nighti

ArpiiOACH op Winter —The nonroacl* of wirt<*r wa_ her Jd'-d by th _ lighting of the lWmjjh lamp-* la-fc night.

Prusbytkbiam. —In an.otdanco with a rpquflt-'t made by the OhrKtchnrch Prenhyfciry to nil Preebyt9rrin choreho-*. tbe Rev. 0. Jaminsoo oondnctod * harvest ib.nnl.eK'.virssr service in the Abnroa nnd Pijjeou Bay churches on Sunday la<-t. A' Akaroa the preacher took hi. texfe from Jeremiah. 3rd chapter and 41-U --we a**.d preached an eloquent seruion therefrom to a crowded congregation.

Late Cable News.—Mr flma'ley. the American correspondent of the * T'me9;' says the Arbitration Treaty is dead. The Senate is undivided and President McKinley's efforts to effr-ct a compromise are in vain. Tbe Jingoes are implacable and jealous, and the Executive dislikes Great Britain- 'The Times' says the levity and caprice of the American Senate are surprising*—Mr E. A. Petherick is preparing a paper to be read btforc the Geographical Society, wlv'ch will go to show that Australia was discovered in the fifteenth century, and a kangaroo presenfced to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in 1495—The Jae;reement between the Transvaal and (ho Orange Free State provi'les for the mutual defence of the two Republics.— In the Chamber of Deputies Prince Henry of Orleans made a violent attack on the British policy in Egvnt —Butler's confession that he murdered a C-v-dry ser _cant at Washington in 1888 is pr->ved to re false.

Turkish Troubles -TheTurksma=B*cred one hundred Aimem-ms at Tokat and pillaged the bazaar. The Porte, at the request of the Embassies-., dignvss'd the three clueE officials of the town. Sir Phillip Currie protested in tbe strongest terms against 'he mngsacie. The 'Standard' st=*te3 that telegrams are constantly pissing whh Constantinople in regard to the massacres. Tha Porfce promhes to take prompt measure* to nnnish the pprpe'rators nf the atrori'ies at Tokat. A special Couit i< to be constituted to enquire into the massacre.-'- The Emba siea have warned the Pone that neglect to punish the offenders will bring serious resnl's. The Governor of Adan:, another town in Asiatic TurkeVi ha* been dismissed,. The Mutessarif, or Governor, of tho division of Tokat, and the commanders of the police and gendarmes, alter being dismissed from their posts, were arres'edTwo divisions of the army of Kara are encawped on the Tu'kish frontier under the prefcaxt of preventing the spread of the bubonio plague to the Russian territory. The ' Standard' states that Tokat was selected for the massacre in persuance of a policy to crash the Armenians in the populous centre=i

Crete;—Anarohy is general throughout Crete excepting places occupied by the Powe'S. Germany leftists to use her troops for ths C'etan blockade, as she prefets to blockade the Pirceeu. The foreign Admirals are greatly impressed with the armaments of the British warships, and the akdl displayed in t v eir msrcerj vre**, The Cz<r haa given 6000 roubles and tho Pop* 10 000 fr«r,ce to the n fugeei*. Tho Tnrk« made another *>tt->mpt to cinv.y provbiotn* ti the besieged in tho fort rt Mulnxa. Tbe jnsnmjfinlH prevented th.a*, nnd pnr.sued the convoy tie far &H Sud-i. The gunboat . than i»h _lled fb» inenrg'-nt'*, nod oompe Wl thorn to retreat. An Außliinn ironcl-'d stoppfiri n Gr-ek (-team .r *nd «(ti i ng vhhhp! which wero n fiuptinz *o run tb _ blockade. The i-.PorisrnritH ha"*i (unrounded Ihe Moslem, at Sitit, and'are ntt"mn'ing to ►tvrv. tbo garrison i-iio snbinit.»-ion. Tbr* Greek Court newspaper «t«t fi t'tat tbe Pow*>re have ► topped-, friendly parleying: wjih Turkeyi Adn_i r <*l Sir Augustus P .illinaoro dwclarHß tbat it is illegal to blockade Bti i_h tradarß to Cr<=to before wai i-> declared