Local and General.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2746, 3 February 1903, Page 2

Local and General.

RAM Faib.—The Ram Fair takes jlace at Show Grounds, Addington, on Thursday next.

County Counoil —This Counoil meet at usual place and hour on Monday next, February 9th.

Stock Sales.—The usual Stock Sale. will be held at Nuf's, and a. M&taoa's yards, Little River, on Thursday next, and the monthly Duvauchelle's Sale ia on Friday.

Fourth Wool Bale —The fourth Wool Sale| takes place on Feb. 19 th, and catalogues cloee on Saturday, Feb. 14th.

New Zealand Railways—Train arrangements, in connection with the English v. Canterbury cricket match, are advertised elsewhere.

Akaroa County Racks.—The programs c of tho meeting to be held on Maroh lOih, appears elsewhere. Ballantyne's Sale.—Messrs Ballantyne and Co. notify that their anoual summer sale cornea to a close on -aturday next, February 7tb.

Trout in Lake Ellesmere.—At a public meotiug held at Leeston, it was resolved that the netting of trout in Like Ellesmere should be legalised under certain conditions. Cricket. — Ihe match between Lord Hawke's team and the Can erbury Eleven, takes place on Friday, Saturday and Moo day next. A.B.C.—The half-yearly meeting of this olub, takes place to-night at the Boathoueet The Committee meet at i o'clock sharp. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance.

Thb Rev. Jasper _*mtth.— A farewell social will be held at the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday, at 8 p m., when Akaroa residents will cay farewell to Mr _*mytb and family, and wish them Jl success and happiness in their new parish. P.M. Coubt.—A this Court yesterday, before Messrs G. Armstrong, jr and C. L Milne, Justices. Frank Northoote charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to a montl s' hard labour at Lyttelton G%ol.

Whooping Cough—My little son had an attack of whooping and was threatened with pneumonia; but for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy we would have had a serious time of it. It also saved him from several severe attaoks of croup—H. J. Stbiokpadbin, editor World Herald, Fair Haven, Wash., U. S. A. For sale by J. S. Dopds, Chemist, Akaroa.

Mr Jas. Inwood.—This esteemed settler died ot his residence near Southbridge on Wednesday afternoon,

Magnetic Observatory.—"The Royal Society has appealed to New Zealand to establish a permanent magnetic observatory somewhere where the observations will not be affected by outside disturbances.

Somam Land—The advance of tho Po" malilfend Expedition has commenced. Maj itGeneral Crabbe oooupied an entrenchsd position at the Enmarah Wells, preparatory to advanoing on the MudngOaßis, the centre of the Mullah's operations. Passed.—ln oommon with many other Peninsula friends, we were glad to hear that Miss Eleanor Baker, daughter of the late Mr T. S. Baker, formerly of French Farm. haß passed her final medical examination at the Dunedin Uhiveraity. Chapman's Murders.—The body of one of the wives of Chapman, the Southwark murderer, disinterred after five years' burial, was mar veil usly well preserved. The preservation i. attributed to antimony, which Chapman is supposed to have given her.

Bknsational Tragedy. — Abbe Vales, rector of Seils, near Toulouse, was ordered to be transferred to another parish for loving a beautiful girl, a landowner's daughter. The couple died together in the be dry, Vales holdii g a oruoifix and Bhe a rosary. Vales shot her and then committod suicide.

Fbost.—On Wednesday night, two and a half degrees of frost were recorded by the minimum thermometer at the Magnetic Observatory, and on the previous night there waa also a frost, the thermometer showing nearly two degrees below freezing point". The Minister of Lands.—The "New Zealand Times" announces that the Hon. T. Y. Dunoon contemplates resigning his portfolio as Minister of Lands, owing to failing health.

Consumption.—-Mr J. D. Rookefeller, the millionaire, ha* announced his intention to spend seven millio 1 dollars (£1,400,000) in ereoting a research hospital at Chicago, with the objeot of discovering a serum to cure consumption. Government Insurance.— The Government Insurance Department has had a very successful year. he new business obtained during 1902 amounted to £864,502, of whioh £677,018, or about £35,000 more than in the previous year, was accepted and olosed. The triennial investigation is now being made, and policy-holders may expect to be informed at an early date that a substantial addition has been made t> their ;polioies by way ot bonus. Divbrting Trade—A well equipped private expedition, under t'i ? lea 'er.hip of Mr M'Millan, au Ame iuu, but countananoei by the British and Egyptian Government/, is starting from England to navigite the Blue Nile and open a commercial rou:.e from Adis Abeba. to Khartoum, with the object of diverting trade from Jlbutil. Patriotism?— The Afrikander newspaper " Onsland," commenting oa ex" Colonel " Lynch'B sontonce refers to the action of the National Scouts in fighting for Britain's pay against their own people. It hold, that what in one case wa. punished by death in the other has been glorified and rewarded.

KAILWAT DISASTEBS IN AMERICA—A hundred an! twelve were killed iv the Graceland railway accident. Another col lision happened at Tuoion, ■".rizona, when eight were killed an 1 seven tee » injured. A third is reported at Lofax, Illinois, where thiee were killed and twelve injured, l'he Graceland accident was due to a night operator neglecting to transmit an order to one express to go into a siding. Mutiny and Murder.—Four foreign sailors of the barque Veronica were charged at Liverpool with mutiny and the murder of the oaptain and six shipmates in the mid Atlantic in December, also with burning the vessel. The mutineers were rescued from a desert island on tho Brazilian coast. A Negro cook revealed the crime. Fruit Growing— A Urge and enthu.i* astic meeting of f. uit growers was held on Saturday night in the Canterbury Hall, for the purpose of considering the best method of dibtributing their produce and forming a United Fruitgrowers' Association. About seventy growers were present, Mr E. Wilkinson, who was voted to the chair, briefly sketched the proposed work to be onderttken by the Association, and moved —"That an Association be formed, calle I the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association." Mr W. Gimblett seooDde 1 the motion, and, after considerable disou*nin ~ it was carried

Mr Chambrrlaiw —The M*yores3 of Kimberley pnsentet MrsChambsrliin with a silver casket, confining five magnificent rough di«mn"da Th • reception at Kimberley was t 1 c in j t enthusiastic and fren* aied of the tour. Mr Chamberlain made a greit Empire speech, adding th »t unless the Cape al'.ereed its polioy it would be left in the cold when federation came. Sir Gordon Sprite «as loudly hissed when leaving tha building At h. banquet, Mr Chamberlah euloe»si*il Kimbeileyas he mother of South lesponsiWe for the existonce of the Rand and Rhodesia Venezuela.—Mrßowen's proposil tint all foreign claims against Venezuela shall ba treated with • .quality has bsen rejeoted. The allies' rejection of the equality of claims has produced a hitch, necessitating Mr Bowen af plying to President Cantro for new proposals. It is estimated that 30 per cent of the Customs will pay the al ies' olairm in six yea's. Frace and the other non-block adintr Powers urge that their exo'usion ia uufiir, and that their magnanimity shoild not prejudice their position. Visoouot Cranborna. speaking at Sheffield, referred to the '* Venezuelan rae«B." He said that he.was -.hocked at the reckless way in which irresponsible persoas oritioised the British and German co operation. He added that British friendliness towards America re rnained unimpaired, and that America was aware that the Monroe policy was not questioned. d.VMDHB AMD SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRAOr. - according to reports of a great numbec of physicians of the largest profsiiional standing, there are offered Etioalypti E* tract whioh poisosß no ourative qualities (n protection of the world-wide fame of Sander »nd Bous' preparation we publish a fiw tb-ttiaots from these! reports, whioh be»r fuiy out that no reliance can be plao3d in other proiuo^s:—Dr. W. B. Busb, Oaklond, Kla. writes. It is sometimes diffionlt to obtain the genuine aroiole (dander and Sou-d). I employed diffierent other preparations but they had no therapsutio vilue and n. effects. In one case the effects wars similar to the oil oimphora, the objeotionable aotioj , .if which is well known." Dr. H. B. Drake, Oregon, says 'Since I became aoquaintad with this preparation (Sander and Sons) I use no other form of eucalyptus as I think t by" far tbe oest.' Dr. L. P. Preston, Lynonburg, Va., writes f * I never use any preparation other than Sander and Sons', as bave found others te be almost useless. Ballantyne & Co.'a Summer Sale. - This sale ia now ia full progress, all Ball an tWa stook being now rednoed to special prices. Letter ordera will receive prompt and careful attention, and illustrated sale catalogues will be sent post free to anyone applying to the firm. The reductions are so kr.at and the value so good that the sale must clear the vast establishment of the firm for tbe reoeptlon of the autumn and I winter goods,

Afghanistan—Advice has been received that a hundred guns, inoluding twelve moun tain quick firers and eighteen field pieces and much ammunition purchased in Ger' many by the Ameer of Afghanistan with the British subsidy, have been stopped at Peshawar. The " Daily Mail" states that the Indian Government has finally declined to allort* the Ameer's agents to remove the g'ns and other munitions from Peshawar.

Late Cable.—Cuba's disbanded army threatens to occupy the towns and collect fifteen million dollars, arrears of pay. The Government has promised only half this amount.—The Home Secretary decided that the women Walters and Haoh, the Islington baby farmers, shall be hanged on Tuesday. —Three thousand Chinese troopa have been ordered to the borders of Kwaichow, where the rebels are in Btrong force, and declare their intention to capture Canton and thence strike at Fekin.

Turkey.—The Bultan asked the sons of Mahmud Pasha, who recently died, to de. liver up his body, the Sultan being unwilling that it should rest in Christian soil. The sons replied that the body had been interred in a Musselman cemetery. Their father's wish was never to return alive or dead under the present Government, to Constantinople. Mahmud was a brother in law to the Sultan. He secretly left Constantinople in 1899, and addressed a letter to the Sultan strongly condemning the administrative system and rampant despotism in Turkey. He took refuge in Corfu. He was sentenced to death in default of ignoring tbe order to return to Constantinople. He then fled to Europe, where he worked in the interests of the " Young Turkey " party.