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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 136, 6 November 1877, Page 2

Owing to the late hour at which the sitting of the board terminated, we are compelled to hold over our report of the proceedings at the adjourned meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui road board yesterday until our next issue.

■ Mr Ivess, the late proprietor of this journal, intends shortly to start a newspaper at Temuka. From the promises of support already received, Mr Ivess will launch his new spallation with every prospect of its being a paying and profitable investment. The size of the paper will be double demy, aud the present intention is to "issue it bi-weekly. We hope Mr Ivess will reap that success which his enterprise so justly deserves.

Yesterday morning Mr W. Rhodes had a very narrow escape from a serious accident by his horse rearing and falling back on him. Fortunately, however, the only injury that resulted, was a rather severe bruising of one of his legs, and we are glad to hear that Mr Rhodes is now little the worse for the fall.

We have to apologise for an error in our last issue, whereby, in our account of the proceedings at the R. M. Court on Tuasday, the 30th ult., Catherine Wright was made to appear as the defendant, instead of the plaintiff, in the case Catherine Wright v. H. Bailey, for abusive language.

We are requested by Mr A. K. Harlock, to acknowledge the receipt of one pound for the Indian Famine Relief Fund, which he has received in a letter signed A.

The industrial show of needlework, &c, to be held in connection with the Horticultural Society's exhibition, on the 16th pros., appears to be taken up in earnest with every promise of success. In addition to the prizes mentioned in our last issue as having been promised, Mr Billens has given a prize for the best drawing by youths, under a certain age, Avhilst other prizes, for special objects, have been promised by Messrs Wagstaff, Beecher, Daly, Harlock, Meech, and some others whose names have not yet reached us.

An advertisement will be found in another column giving notice that a public meeting of householders in the French Farm Educational district will be held on the 12th inst., for the purpose of electing two persons to serve on the School Committee.

The weather has been remarkable lately for the pre valence of Nor'-west winds, with their usual attendants, dust and lassitude. Last Saturday afternoon a steady rain set iv for a few hours, cooling the air, laying the dust, and raising hopes amongst the gardening, dairy farming, and pasturing members of our community that we were in for three or four days' at least of grateful and much needed wet weather. But Sunday morning dawned, even more summery than ever, with a clear sky, bright sun, and a fresh breeze from the old quarter, increasing, as the day lengthened into a regular gale of wind. The good effect of the short downpour was thus completely neutralised, arid this is the more to be regretted, because the country sadly needs rain, Tn the interests of our agricultural and pastoral friends, we sincerely trust that we may shortly have to record a change, which shall be beneficial to them and the country at large.

The Le Bon's .Bay School Committee, have received from W. Montgomery, Esq , M. 11. R., a cheque for £3 3s to be expended in the purchase of prizes for the school children. The donation was accepted, and the chairman requested to write and thank the liberal donor.

The much needed and long delayed public work of erecting a lighthouse at the Akaroa Heads seems, at last, to be in a fair way of being commenced. This is mainly owing to the unceasing reminders, and indefatigable energy of oar representative, Mr Montgomery, who certainly has done his duty to his constituents in this and every respect Tho benefit of this Avork, however, is not confined to the Peninsula, but is calculated to be felt, and gratefully acknowledged, by the colony at large. The apparatus for the lighthouse has been ordered from England, and will arrive in July next, by which timo the road to the Heads, and the building, will be completed if the promises made to our representative are duly carried out. The following clipping from an exchange will give some idea of the state of colonial surveys:—"The Surveyor-General's annual report on the surveys of New Zealand just laid before Parliament contains the following sentence : : —' In Nelson, so impossible has it been found to map and record the übiquitous applications there made, that Crown titles have actually been granted, the whereabouts being unknown.' The italics are in the original." I

In another column will be found the addresses of Messrs Waeckerle and Meech, who notify their intention of coming forward as candidates for the office of Mayor at the ensuing election. ,■ - v ■-,