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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 116, 28 August 1877, Page 2

Mr f Latter has received a tefegram from Mr Latham, who, it will tie "remembered, was the gentleman chosen % the takes Drainage. . and Bail way .Trust to execute the engineering, work.. in connection with the Lakes Reclamation and Akaroa Railway, .to the effect that lie was then on the point of setting out ior New Zealand. The telegram is dated Sydney, August 21, so t'l'iat Mr Latham may shortly be expected amongst us. We are glad to think that this important work is being set about without any delay. We f urttier understand that the sum of £3000 'has been placed by the Government to the credit of.the Trust Account. A meeting of the Little River Library Committee was held in the Library, on Wednesday evening, August 22, 1877. All the members were present. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and contfrinud. The Chairman re:v.l a letter ■which hnd.bcen received from the 1.0.0. F., LitMo IViver, requesting the use of the lil>r.ary.-room .to. hoifl. their meetings in. ilfhe.'(joriipittee,regolyiqd tp.Q I ]h/w i the.Oddo£ 'ihe-. fpr.tliree pQr;, nig^<' !! tis]^..a^.cl,.'fir.ewooa inci^decf,.. t , Several,.,, n its, /vyer,? ; . passed jrpjvpayfncrit... Tiie meeting then, ajljayrijed

~Mr Andrews delivered his lecture on the Local Option Bill at the Town Hall, on Friday evening last. There were some fifty or sixty people present, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the entertainment. Whether it was that the learned lecturer's remarks were too erudite for our humble comprehension, or that the room possesses acoustic deficiences, or from some cause or other, we regret to say that our knowledge of the Bill in question was the same 'tis before Mr Andrews expressed his views thereon. Several other people who had previously known nothing of the Bill have uttered -the, same sentiment. We must, however, give Mr Andrews credit for considerable powers of repartee, which turned the tables, on a fsw of his interrogators who were inclined to be " chaffy " at his expense. Altogether, the entertainment was well worth 'a shilling. We should like to go again , . Mr. C. L. Wiggins, so long and favourably known in Akaroa, has lately purchased a; property at Sumner, which he has fitted up with all the requisites for a scholastic establishment. His leaving Fornside was taken as an opportunity by the residents of that district for testifying to him in a substantial manner, their appreciation of his many acts of kindness, and those social qualities which had gained their respect and esteem, by presenting him with a handsome black-marble eightday clock, bearing, on a silver plate, the following inscription :—" Presented to C. L. Wiggins, Esq., by the parishioners of the Fernside district." We wish him every success in his new school at Sumner. We understand that the Oddfellows of Akaroa are negotiating with Dr. Watkins for the purchase of a piece of land near the Library, with the view of erecting a new hll.l. When this is completed the old building at present used by the Order will be sold. Just as we were going to press, we were startled by a rumbling sound, which we found proceeded, from a landslip off Lucas' Hill, near our office. The debris from which partly covers the beach roads at the spot were excavations have been lately going on. It v/ould be well for the Borough Council to see that in taking away earth no overhanging portions are left, as this we believe, to be the cause of the present slip. From the report of the Timaru Eaces published in the South Canterbury Times of the 22nd inst., we observe that Mr. Shadbolt's horses ran well up, " Noble " especially given a good account of himself- " Faugh-a-ballagh" was, we observed, entered and ran in the name of Mr. Egan. Considering the distance the horses had to travel, the badness of the weather, the many inconveniences of getting animals from this to Timaru, we have to congratulate Mr Shadbolt on his horses places, and trust that his indomitable pluck may yet bo well rewarded on the racecourse. From our Nelson exchange we glean that':—Alex Maclaine appeared at the Bankruptcy Court, Nelson, recently with the object of a third time obtaining his discharge. It was shown that he incurred debts tlie day after he had filed, besides sundry other irregularities, among which may be mentioned that having bought a horse for £15 from a Mr Doreen of Havelock lie at once proeeded to sell for £8. Without any,means whatever, lie ran up a bill of £111 in about three months. As it is he is to be prosecuted for the horse affair, and if lie gets through that he may again apply for a discharge. The Invoreargill Weekly News of the 11th instant, gives a somewhat peculiar report of a public dinner to the Mayor of Winton. We have been loyal from our infancy, bo much so, that even in those degenerate days, we always remove our hat and stand up when " Gkul save the Queen" is played within our hearing - . Imagine then the horror with which w<3 read in the account alluded to, that " The Queen was dnink with the usual patriotic honors "! Her Majesty was in the habit of this, observe—" the usual patriotic honors" —not once in a way —but the usual —this is terrible! how it ruffles up one's classics, too— dulceet dcKorum est pro patria tiiori —that is what we were taught at Eton, was " a patriotic honor ". But-no !it can't be, if Her Majesty gets well, —so so on it! we are not bo mnch exercised when it is implied further on, that the " Army arid Navy " were in the same condition 1 . They may perhaps do a' little in that way sometimes. The chairman is reported to have said "that he felt proud to have the honour of .filling the chair .that evening" now isn't that a delicate way of putting it, affer a good square feed ! " The Press was responded to by Mr. Kean in his usual style ." This, too, is somewhat rough on Mr. Kean, if that gentleman has only 6ne set way of expressing himself, he must feel it keenly, we should imagine. Dr. Guthrie said : We have a great many things taught in our shools now— physiology, philology, craniology, geology —and what th c better is a girl for it, if she cannot darn her stockings, bake her bread, boil a potato, or light a fire, I do not, remember, despise those ologies, but I am for stitchology, bakology, and boilIn a Paris newspaper two paragraphs, which should have appeared separately, by some mishap got mixed, and they read as follows :—"Dr. X—has been appointed head physician to the Hospital do Charite. .Orders have been issued by the authorities for tho immediate extension of the Cemetery of Mont Parnasaee, and the works are being executed with the "utmost des-,