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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 98, 26 June 1877, Page 2

Through a pressure of local matter and advertisements, we are compelled to hold over our usual Commercial News, which will appear in our next. An important sale of stores and useful goods from the stock of Mr. Daly, takes place at the Town Hall. ;o-day. The goods generally in Mr. Daly's hands for sale are well known as being carefully and Well selected, and this novel opportunity should we think, be looked upon by the residents in this district as a first-class chance of supplying their wants on very favourable terms. Mr. Bridge wields the hammer,,and. we have little doubt that from the large number of lots, promptitude will be the order of the day.

Wβ are-glad to find that the Ethiopian entertainment of Thursday last, is to bo supplemented by an evening's amusement, volunteered by some visitors to Akaroa. From what we learn, the funds will be devoted to the local charities, and the programme will be of a varied nature. In our next issue we hope to give full particulars and probable date of appearance. We are glad to be able to state that the accidents we recorded in our last issue are progressing favourably. The patient, Adam Frier, from Le Bon's Bay saw mills, now at the Immigration barracks, who had his hand so severely lacerated is progressing towards recovery, though with the serious consequences to a working man of the loss of the use of one of his hands. That fine property in Balguerie road has been sold by the trustees of the late Mr. T. Brough, to Mr. J. Currie, for the sum of £410, and the cottage and section at the end of Muter-street, known as Sherwood's cottage, for £175, to the same purchaser. The Art Union advertsed to come off on Saturday, did not take place, owing to the fact that the number of tickets sold was not sufficient to recoupe Mr. Wascoe for his investment. Mr. Wascoe, we hear, now proposes to submit the whole lot of boats and fishing gear to the hammer. An interesting event is to take place in St. Peter's Church, on Wednesday next, which will, no doubt, attract a good many spectators. Mr. George Eobertson is to lead to the Hymenial Altar Miss Olivia Eapatina. A large circle of relatives, and native friends will attend the ceremony, and afterwards partake of a dejeuner at the Kainga. The South Canterhurg Times says there is a chance of another morning paper being started at Tiinaru.

The Le Bon's Bay Sohool Committee, held a meeting last Monday evening when Mr. Macmillan, formerly of Eobinson's Bay School, was unanimously appointed master subject to the approval of the Board. At the same meeting, Mr. Barnett, the Chairman of the Committee, expressed a desire to retire from, that office, but on being pressed by his fellow members, consented to retain office for a few months longer. A meeting of the Vestry of St. Peter's Church, was held last Tuesday afternoon f so consider the resignation of Mr. Fenton as one of the churchwardens. All the members were present, and after transacting some business o£ minor importance the Vestry adjourned, after asking the churchwarden in question to reconsider his resignation, until the receipt of his reply. The Somerset Hotel, Head of the Bay' has, we hear, changed hands Avithin the past few days, and that it will be reopened to the public in a few days under an entirely new management. The new proprietor is, we hear, no novice ai the business, and we wish him every success. His Worship the Mayor has, we have heard, received a telegram from the agent of the Council in Christchurch that 2,000 acres of land have been plotted for the Akaroa Borough Council in the Ashburton district. We hear the land is of first-class quality, and that the whole block can be put under the plough at once. This should yield a large and increasing revenue to the Borough. A large number of the children usually attending St. Peter's Chnrch Sunday school, assembled in the Church last Sunday afternoon, being the feast of St. John the Evangelist, when the Kevd the Incumbent preached a very practical and impressive sermon to those present on the duty of brotherly love. The examination of the Sunday school scholars and awards of the prizes, takes place on Friday at 3 p.m. Tne usual half-yearly meeting of the members of the Lo3 r al Good Inteat Lodge, No. 4892 1.0.0. F., M.M., for the election and installation of officers, took place at their Lodge room, Jollie-street, Akaroa,'on the evening of the 23rd inst. The following brothers were duly elected and installed— G-.M.J.J. Kissel; N.G.J. Gresson ; V.G G. Kearney ; Warden, W. Higgins, Guardian, J. -Hammond ; Lecture master' W. Whitfield ; Secretary, J. Prince ; Minute Secretary, P. Berland; Sick visitors, JStaples and P. Berland ; Auditors, W. Whitfield and J. Prince. A meeting of the Manse Committee was Summoned for last Saturday to arrange about payment of first instalment of money for Manse. There being only one or two members present nothing could be done. We understand that much encouragement has already been given by members of the congregation and other friends to the collectors. We have no doubt whatever that the entire sum may easily be got, if only collectors will exert themselves. But unless this is done, of course there will be a deficit. The sum due last Saturday was £200, and we understand that from £120 to £130 collected formerly for Manse fund, and including interest, and about £100 received from collections were now lying in the Bank. There are, however, about £250 yet required to clear off! liabilities. This ought "not to be very difficult to get if the collectors only give •• a longpull, a strong-pull, and a pull-altogether. , ' The building is progressing rapidly, and will be finished, weather permitting, within contract time. Mr. Jennings, in a letter to the New York World from London, relative to the opening of Parliament, says: "On this occasion the ladies overflowed the House.

Earily as it still was the floor was covered with them—large blocks of the "benches were occupied and the galleries were crowded. All these ladies were in evening toilets, the Peeresses wearing coronets of diamonds, most of them being fairly ablaze.with diamonds on head and neck. If the daylight was not very favourable to the shoulders or complexios of some of these noble dames, the gorgeousness of their costumes and, the. glitter of their precious stones served to divert attention from the defects of nature or the.ravages of time. The dresses were in many instances superb, covered with lace or gold, and cut with that eye to liberal display which is now deemed indispensable to any woman of fashion. It is perhaps not quite fair to mention names, but when Lady Dudley entered a friend of mine whispered: ' She has absolutely nothing on but diamonds.' And it did look very like it until her husband went away and presently returned with an ermine cloak, which she put over her shoulders. . There . were many others, however, of whom it might almost be said that they had more clothing off than on. This is a delicate subject, but it is not my fault; I did not make the fashions. An assemblage of ladies such as that gathered in the House of Lords to-day is a startling sight to look upon. I wonder what the ladies would say if actresses in a theatre or singers at the opera were to dress, or undress in the same style ? How they can consent to send their daughters out into ' society',: almost destitute of raiment is even more mysterious than the readiness with which they permit an astonished world to gaze on their own abundant charms. If the fashionable milliner goes much further in the present direction, we may expect to see the stock in the rooms and windows limited to an ' elegant assortment, of fig-leaves." A man named Hugh Fergusson fell down dead yesterday morniug at Frank's boarding-house, Manchester-street. Deceased, who had recently arrived from Wellington, had been drinking heavily for some time. Dr. Park was sent for and attributed death to congestion of the brain. Before leaving Christchurch for Wellington, Fergusson had been employed as barman at the White Hart Hotel. An inquest will beheld at the hospital at 2 p.m. today.