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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 142, 27 November 1877, Page 2

By an advertisement elsewhere, the Churchwardens of St. Peters, Akaroa, request that the parishioners will send in their response to the circulars sent round, in order that they may arrive at a fair estimate of the income derivable from them, and that thus financial matters maybe placed on a more definite basis. We trust the pariahioners will promptly and liberally respond to the call, and will assist the Church officers in their praiseworthy efforts to restore some degree of order and method in tl>e Church management. The Church Trust Property Little River Exchange Bill, was read a third time ill (.he Legislative Council on the 24th instant. The inhabitants of the Head of the Bay, and district adjoining-, are making strenuons efforts to clear their church from debt. It Is intended, as one means about that end, to bold a gift auction toward the end of the year, and when we say that the liidie* of the district, beaded by Mrs Shad bolt,, and Mrs Piper, are soliriung contributions, we think we may safely surmise that the scheme has been commenced by those who will, carry it to a successful ending.

The e.B. Stella called in at an early hour of the morning of. the 2Gth inst, for the purpose of shipping to Wellington the large guns, that were for so long a warlike, ornament to the re-,, serve.opposite BruceV Hotel. The cannon were lifted,'by means of the crane, from off the carriages on to one of the trucks and so conveyed to the side of , the vessel, where they were slung on board. Both the guns when swung off from the bulwark of the steamer, tipped forward and left their mark on the deck. While one p£ them was being lowered into the hold, the slings began to slip, but fortunately sustained the strain until the gun was safely down. There can be no doubt, that had this ponderous weight of iron fallen from the height it was then at, it would have gone through the ship's bottom, a rather costly result of moving such usless rubbish as the ordnance in question. However, the whole shipment was conducted speedily and safely, Our harbor defences (?) have departed ! Considering the size of the guns it was quite remarkable how quietly they went off.

We have been informed from a most reliable source that a practice is steadily gaining ground on the Peninsula of killing pheasants by snaring, hocussed grain, and other devices practised by the poaching fraternity. It has been at considerable trouble and expense that these birds have been brought into the colony, and of late years about Akaroa, where Mr J. D. Garwood was the first to introduce them, and we trust that all true lovers of sport will do their utmost to preserve the game, and to bring a conviction against those who thus wilfully set the laws at defiance. What are the rangers about that they do not find these things out, as well as the general public ?

Mr Wilson, of the Marine Department, visited Akaroa, in the s.s. Stella, yesterday, and inspected the present appliances for lighting the government wharf. Mr Wilson stated that he would, immediately on his arrival in Wellington, urge the necessity for a new lamp and post being erected at once, and that the road to the site of the proposed lighthouse would be commenced in less than a month from the present date.

We have to correct, and apologise for, a slight error which occurs in the obituary notice of the late Mr" Warner, that appeared in our last publication. We should have stated that the deceased gentleman had been tv the Hanmer Plains hot springs, instead of saying that he was going to that locality.

At the nomination for the office of Mayor of this Borough, which took place on Friday, the 23rd instant, at the Borough Council offices, at 12 o'clock j Messrs. J. Waeckerle and H. G. Watkins were duly nominated, Mr Meech, the other candidate, having retired. Mi H. G. Watkins, in addressing those of the public who were present, said that he had come forward at the request of a large number of the burgesses. He was a member of last year's Council, and would wish to state that, though his end of the town had then a majority of representatives in the Council, still it was wrong to say that they worked for their end, or made an " find against end " warfare of k. The books shewed that £300 had been spent on the French end of the town, against £250 on theirs, or the English end. There was one thing he would like to ask Mr Waeckerle, and that was in reference to a petition, which had been got up at his end of the town, with regard to the site for the proposed new public buildings. This petition, he himself had never even heard about, and he thought such a transaction was most unsatisfactory and underhand. If elected to the post of Mayor, he would do his best for the whole Borough, shew no partiality, and, before increasing the ratep, should it be necessary to' do bo, would call a public meeting to consider the matter. Mr Waeckerle, in reply to Mr Watkins, paid he knew nothing whatever of the petition in question, and that if: his name had been associated with it, he bad .been misrepresented. JTe was us ignorant ot the matter as Mr Watkins. In coining forward as a candidate for the office of Mayor, he relied upon his longconnection with public affairs in Akaroa, and his integrity of action in regard to the same, to influence burgesses in his favour. Iγ! anyone originated the " end for end " cry. it was Mr Watkins himself. Should, however, he be elected, he would do his utmost to further friendship between the "ends," and otherwise do his duties impartially.

■We" hear tlTOf Mr Donovan's tenderf £860, for budding the new Oddfellows' Hall, in . Jollie street, has been accepted, and that the work will be commenced immediately certain financial matters are arranged by the building committee. When erected, this building will not only be a useful addition to the buildings of Akaroa, but it will also supply a muchneeded warn. ;

From Barry's Bay we hear that a bush fire,-which broku out there oti the 22nd inst., did considej;iblc damage to the properties oi' Ml IVS. Jvhnson and Mr D. Le (Joinpt, j'in.. J?he lire was supposed to have orig'iiiited on the lower side of the Little River < road, and from there it crossed to the pioperty of Mr Johnson, destroying'a ij'iwintily of firewood, posts and rails, and cocksloot grass, which was being- reserved , for seed ; from thence it extended its ravages to Mr Le. Compt's, where it burned up the whole of his standing- crop of grass, which was being, kept for seed, together with the gorse fences, and doing considerable ■ damage otherwise. We are informed that Mrs Le Oompt had a narrow escape from getting seriously burned in her endeavours to prevent the fire getting a hold'in the orchard, her clothing having caught fire in different Tii at great to newspaper para-. graphists, the -monster vegetable season, has commenced ;'in right earnest. We read in an exchange that a monster cauliflower, weighing eight and a half;pounds, has been growji at —what we consider the proper place-f Paradise farm, Cromwell, Glago. llavn'tanyot our readers any edible monstrosities they would like chronicled. We consider ojirseives good at describing and sampling 6uch "small deer" as early strawberries, cherries, &c, and such articles, if left at pur office, shall have quick and prompt attention.

A meeting hviis held in German Bay School-house, pn the afternoon of the 21st inst, for the | purpose of establishing a Cricket Glut) In the bay. • The meeting was well atte uled, those present being enthusiastic in the matter, and determined to form themselves into a club, electing a captain, and subscribing nearly four pounds towarc defraying the preleminary expenses. Ai this movement has been taken up so '''energetically, we have no doubt that the German Bay Cricket Club will soon iiiakji their-name'known among the votaries at the willow on Banks Peninsula, j ■ ..'-,..:: The Union Steam Shipping Company, wiLh their aiicustomed liberality, have instructed their agents here, Messrs Wood Bros, and Co.,'on their behalf, to give their LUiual donatioii oi live guineas., towards the ltogatta funds. Mr George Hutchintion has also jgiven two guineas for the same object. < The Canterbury Kailways Lands Keservation Bilfipassed through its remaining stages on Wednesday, 21st inst. <

•Messrs Bridge and -Bushell, according to advertisement, held their sale of the Akaroa Mill and Brewery, at their offices, on, Friday last. There were only two bidders, Messrs G. W. Nalder, and C. Haylock, the property/ being finally knocked down to the former gentleman for £430.

We understand that Mr March, who came down here last week to report upon the Hospital, has thoroughly inspected that building, and has made known to the authorities the urgent necessity for its being placed in a lit state for use when required. Dr. Guthrie has also received authority to obtain all necessary surgical and medicinal stores in connection with the Hospital, so that it is reasonable to assume that we may now in a short time be in possession of this long needed accommodation.

A bush fire occurred in Little River on the 22nd inst., which destroyed twenty acres of cocksfoot grass that Mr Christiansen had been keeping shut up for the purpose of saving the seed. Mr Christianson supposes the fire to have originated upon a neighbour's land, from thence extending to his property. The loss to Mr Christiansen is doubly severe as he is a struggling man, in backward circumstances, and depended upon his grass-seed crop to tide him through his difficulties.

From different sources we hear the New accomodation house at Little Hiver, kept by Mr Olphert, very highly spoken of. The house contains eighteen rooms, comfortably furnished, and kept in excellent order, the host and hostess endeavouring to their utmost to make their house a heme to the travelling public. A visitors' book is kept, and the signatures of nearly one hundred travellers testify to the facts of this house being not only a public convenience, but also that its present occupants are the right people in the right place,