AKAROA ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLII, Issue 6228, 4 September 1885, Page 3

AKAROA ITEMS.

On Wednesday a Nelson wife deserter named Thomas Franklin, alias WilUamt, was remanded. It appears Ida "wife - was recently confined, and a woman named Tolberry came to nurse her. A few days .after Mrs Franklin's child was born her husband, accompanied by Mrs Tulberry .(who is a widow) and her two children, went aboard the Tairaroa, having taken tickets for Timara. The wife gave the alarm, and the Timaru policemen went down to meet the happy pur, bat of coarse the j were not to be found, and enquiries being made, it was discovered they had landed at Akaroa. Franklin ifl only about twenty-five, the woman Tolberry being some eight yeara his senior. He had only been married a year.- -• '-■- *' The Borough Council election waa a very tame one. The three retiring Councillors, Messrs Brace, Gutberlet, and Billons, were the only candidates nominated, and were accordingly declared duly elected. The Oddfellows* Hall is being fitted with a new stage and some good scenery, which it very much needed, and the completion of the work will probably be celebrated by ■ the production of Sullivan and Gilbert's t "Trial by Jury," on a grand scale for i Akaroa. I Tilings generally are very quiet, bnt the cows aire coming on fast, ami cheese-making

will soon be in toll swing again. Favored by the fioe weather the lamting piomkea to be an exceedingly good one. .. Two new churohea will be built here ahortly. The tender for the nev Congregtttional Church is alrrady let, and it will be epeedily ertoted. The Bmv. D. McLeanan has been most successful in hia efforts to coUeofcßttbecriptione for a new Presbyterian Church, which ia said to be badly needed. One lady has given £L'j, a gentleman JB3O, and several uthera jSJO each, bendes • multitude of 6m*ikr tione, so that there seems ovetypixontilitjr of t> • handsome buiiaing beui(C upeectily ereokd.