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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 122, 18 September 1877, Page 2

In spite of a memorial to the Registrar of the Supreme Court,'and telegrams to the Minister of Justic, pointing out tho inconvenience and increased expense occasioned by the appointment of Ohristeburch as the place of meeting for creditors in the estate of E. W. Morey, the wishes of the Akaroa creditors have been disregarded, and their convenience considered of no moment. With a view to obtaining, some alteration in this great injustice to a large community, the following is the text of a petition which has been drawn up for signature, praying the Judge of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, to so order, in any future meeting in bankrupt estates of residents on the Peninsula, that the creditors, in such estates, residing in this district may be spared a repetition of the injustice complained of :—" To His Honor Judge Johnson.—Your Honor.—We, the undersigned traders and residents of Akaroa, beg respectfully to draw your Honor's attention to the inconvenience, loss, and expense, imposed upon us through the meeting of creditors, in the estates of bankrupts residing in this district, being held in Christchurch. It is our unanimous opinion that the intentionsjof the Act, and the ends of justice, are frustrated by the present system, and we pray your Honor to cause all future meetings of the kind we mention, to be held at Akaroa."—Signed, etc.

Notwithstanding our repeated reminders to our lopal boating-men of the necessity for immediate steps being taken in regatta matters, we regret to say that nothing has as yet been done. The time is drawing very nigh now, we shall be again behind hand, and ev3rything in confusion and hurry at the last moment. The Lyttelton people have held there preliminary meeting, although their regatta day is later than ours. Will not soineori3 move in this matter ? There was no truth in the report which circulated the town lastFridry morning, to the effect that during the night a decapitated body of a man had been found lying in one of the principal streets. The facts of the case are these. ■ The gentleman who " skips from pole to pole," dousing the Municipal glims, was returning home from his nocturnal trip, and had leached about the centre of the sea wall, when he saw before'him'sri'the road what appealed to be a man in a sifting posture. Thinking it was, perhaps, someone taken ill. he laid down his ladder and lantern so as to leave his arms free aud somewhat cautiously approached the figure, remarking, by way of introduction, " Hallo, Mister!" As there was no answer to this salute, he naturally concluded the individual was drunk, so straightway addressed him in that wheedling tone people always assume to refractory Bacchanalians, and said. " I say, get up, old fellow, don't sit there in the cold, old boy, come along " and was just about to raise the besotted individual onto his legs, when he discovered to.his horror, that the head was missing. To rush back for his lantern was the, work of a moment, to return with it the work of one more, when, turning the light to bear on the figure, he found it was indeed the mutilated, and decapitated, and somewhat decomposed remains—of the effigy, which had been blown up spine hours before.

We have been favoured with an inspect tion-of Mr J. D. Davis's new furnishing Avarehous, in Church-sheet. The building is large, and commodious, and the shop portion capable of holding a considerable amount of stock, as indeed was shewn by the. amount and variety of every imaginable household necessary or luxury there in displayed. It will be a great boon to those in Akaroa,.about to furinsh, that they can obtain what they require here without the trouble and riskcf shipment from Port, to say nothing of the saving in freight, and we hope Mr Davis may receive the support in his enterprise which he is justly entitled to.

A serious accideht nearly occurred to a little boy named Hughes, belonging to this town, one day last week. It appears he was pouring powder out.of a fiask on to a lighted match heldin his other hand, when the flame ran up and exploded the flask fortunately resulting in no injury to the child. "Playing,with fire" is dangerous enough, but playing .with gunpowder is perilous in the extreme. Parents should take a warning from the above, and exercise some supervision over the innocent (?) recreations of their offspring. We cannot expect old heads on young shoulders, but we have every reason; to expect young heads off them, if gunpowder is used, and regarded as only a toy.