The Akaroa Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1897.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2145, 21 April 1897, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1897.

Left Out.—Owing to pressure in our spacetepvt3h<\vlwi to be .out ilown ami much muter held over. . . , Borough Couscn..—The e'ection takes plare on vex. Cou.nxv Counck «—Th'B Council meet on Satnrdity »Mi3u->l p!»ce and hour. Pigeon Bay KoAb Board.—The annual j meeting of ra'epaye'S is acW'ised for May , Ist. '. '■ S,S- Rimutaka.—-A second shipment ot horse cover triatrial has just been landing. c nsien-d t-> Ji F. Akaroa* Accident.—One of Mr G. Mason's sons ws hurt by a fall from his borse in Little Aknlo*, and Dr. Lairg was sent for. We ate gfad to say th? injuries were not serious. 008 MeMUBR.—We hear our member, Mr W. H. Montgomery, is soing to England to lie prfs*ntat the Record Eeign Celebrations* Hβ leaver by the ss. Ruahine. Shooting Season. — The ' Lytte'ton Times ' cays : About ac many sportsmen did honour to the official opening of t&e shooting season on Saturday as had previously assisted at the unofficial opening on the n«u-il date. The best bags yet reported were 250 ducks to five guns n?ar LazareUi's, and 9f) ducks to four guns at the mouth of No. 2 Creek. , i Mr Cat-tun. Surgeon D?nti*f haa been called to Chrisfcchurch, bur will return to finish his wok at Akaroa very shortly. Bosheu's Case. —A rumour is current in We'lington that Bosher has confessed, but the authorities have rot divulged any information on the mat'eiv He will be hanged at 8 a.m. to-day, and the duties of hangman are to bo cariifd out by a. man who has officiate.) in a similw capacity on previous occasions in the colony. It ia understood that the man has sought an interview with Miss Iteece, with whom he committed a bigamous marriage*

Stormy Weather. —There has been ter'ible wnefcher in ths North Island. The floods in Naoier were the worst, ever known, aud several lives have been Joafc. The gale blew with hurricane force in Cook Strait, and several steamers were detained. The railway lines in Wellincton and Hawke'a Bay hive b a en much injured, No less than twelve livr-s were lost in the Hawke's Bay floods and many sefc'lers were utterly ruined. It I; estimated that 50,000 srn-ep were drowned, and £150,000 worth of damage d«ne.

Ci'l.C. Atjtcmn Meeting.—At this mosting on Monday the Ki.'d»ro Hurdlna were won by Highlander; Champaen Stakes by Multiform ; Autumn Ma'den by Salvo Shot ; Eaa'ter Handicap by Goldspur; Epsom W'ller by Jewel; Eufs'ev PUte by Dannt • Sockburn handicap by Vandyke and G'mby Molly Darling, The racing was go r d, but there were no sensational dividends.

Championship Regatta.—We '-re de--I'ght.ed to record that C. Chapman won the Cruov'on Seulla frr our W*irewa Club, and Chapman end Reid tho Champion D-inble Sculls at the Championship Repaita at Picton on Mondayi The L'Ule River Club most worthi'y sustained the honour of the Penipgu'a. The Queen's Drive Club won the Champion fours and Picton the Champion piirs. South Afrioa.i—The triil of Lun'mmt Kloff is proceeding. Witncasess testified that Eloff when drun'« used a foul fej ichel in reference to Qneen-Vicb'Tv-u T.'ie Rand mining groups intend to present a united petition l<i the Transvaal Government, asking for a settlement of ihs grievances r'g-e.dint; the dynamite monopoly mid the,l'qu.>r laws, and grant reduced rates and Customs

J. S. Dodds, chemist and stationer, has Church o! JUngland prayer and hymn book> from Is Gel upwards, Presbyterian Church Praise from Is, l)ibles, prize liooks, notepnpor and -envelopes, boxed stationery, visitin(! cards, and all classes of stitionery at loweet nnc'Si

St. Pktkts.—»The parieh church was very tastefully decorated for the Easter Festival with chrysanthemums, roaea and dahlias, being artistically blended by' Mrs E. Funnell, assisted by Misses Keeg&n, Smyth and Sims. There were celebrations at the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. servicesi Notwithßtanding the threatening aspect of tho weather, there was a good congregation at the 11 o'clock service, while at'the evening service every available sea\ both in the body of the church and in qhegfellery, wa» oconpied, This was principally owing to the fact that the Volnnteers, both the Collepo Rifles and the Mounted Rißes, attended. The Vicar preached appropriate sermons, the enbjec!. in the morning " Chriaf, the first fruite," and in the evening " God's promiee to the Jβwe fulfi led in r-iising Christ from the dead." At the latter service Captain Day, of the College Rifles, read the lesson?, and Mr Nieholla, lay reader, assisted the Vicar in the prayers* The service waa aemi-choral, and the singing was remarkably good. Mr Sidney Sims presided at >.he organ. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, the Vicar wai unable to go across to Wainui as he had intended. We*may here remark that at the evening service we noticed that the church and the laity were represented by co-ne of the tallest men in New Zealand. The Vicar 6 feet 2incheH, Lieutenant Smith 6 feet 5£ inches, and a local resident 6 feet 7 inches, while there were many others 6 feet and over. We fancy this will beat the rec r 1 of auy church in the colony.

Important.—We see by an advertisement in another column of this paper fhat A. Ei Mu'iro is again t<> the fori with bis end of 'he season Bargain Sale, and we enn confidently recommend, our reader* to compa'e his ptices. Eemember the Address, Ai R. Mpnso, Beach lioad, Akaroa.—AßVTi

Late Cable.— It i* expected in official circles that, the United States will annex Hawaii, in order to prevent Japan annexing it.—Mfs«i!B Vines and Zurbriegen (Swiss guides) ascended Tupungafeo, one of the peaks in the Andes, and reached an altitude" of twenty-one thousand feet.—The imports of the United States for March totalled seventysix million do'lare, the largest March return sine 3 1833. —The Czt has issued orders that Sibo'ian exiles are to be conveyed to the'v destination by rail. Nine warships belonging to the British Cape squad r on left for Durban, Their objective ia not known.—News from the Ea<t includes thff statement that the Chinese have ordered four armoured cruisers and several torpedo boats, all of the English type. The indications are that Li Hung Chine is coming into fall power as^in. —The Most Rev- Dr. Maclagsn, Archbishop of York, is on a visit to Moscow. He ha« be«n w-irrnlv welcomed.—The Government ia supplying food to sixty thousand persons rendered destitute by the floods in the Mississippi. • J.man v/i'l send an envoy to attend the Queen's celebrations. To The Dbaf and those troubled with Nois-s in the Head or other Aural Troubles. Dγ Nicholson of London, the world (amed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just the 100'h edition o! his illustra'ed and descriptive book oa Deafness and Aural Troubles <T<iis book may be h»d from Mr Coiin Campbell, 160 Adelaide Road, Wellineton T N.Z. Mr Campbell cured of his deafness by Dr» Nicholson's system, and t>kes pleasure, in spreading the new* of the great specialist in New Zoahn&t. A little bouk ©a the cmc of Rheumatism. Corpulence, Lurnb»go and Indigestion by toe same author, mty be "had 'from Mr Ctonpbeli, also free.