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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 161, 1 February 1878, Page 2

The Akaroa School Committee held a meeting yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of nominating two members to serve on the Board of Education for North Canterbury. There were present Mr W Meech, chairman, and Messrs Annand, Bruce, and- Barry. Mr Montgomery was telegraphed to, asking him to allow himself to be nominated, but no reply was received up to 5 p.m. Mr J. Ivess, having signified, through Mr Garwood, his willingness to act. was, on the motion of Mr Barry, nominated as a member of the Board.

The two Christchurch evening newspapers, the Star and Globe, have both been enlarged to about the same size as the Lyttelton Times and Press respectively were formerly. Journalism must be healthy in the "City of the Plains," if we are to judge by this extension of our contemporaries' growth. We hope both journals will advance in prosperity as pro ratia, as they have in size.

Like larger towns, Akaroa is not entirely free from those midnight marauders, the " snowdroppers," and hous.e\vives would do well to see that all their linen is taken in-doors, on their washing-day, before the shades of night screen the depredators and their acts from view. An instance in point occurred on Tuesday night last, not a hundred miles from the barracks, when a lady was thoughtless enough to leave some of her washing out all night, and the following morning she discovered that some of the things were missing—one in particular she would be able to swear to nnvwhcre, if it ever conies to light again, for it bore the lady's name, and the loss on that account is even greater —for now both article and name have disappeared, probably for ever.

We clip the following from the San Francisco Chronicle ot December 6th. The Rev. writer must be on singularly good terms with himself, and :uu r .t have an overweening opinion of his own righteousness with a consequent depreciation of who think otherwise that bu does .—Rev. A. B. Gill, in the Pacific Methodist, blows his own trumpet in the following singular fashion: "Some men think it a great thing to be known all over the world, but I believe that I am somewhat known in three worlds, already. There are men on earth who have heard me preach : there are men in heaven who have i.card me peach, and there are men in hell who often reflect over truths that I have announced from backwoods pulpits ; and men may deny it if they will and sneer at it if they like, but one single Summer-day's residence in hell will teach Hume, Voltaire, Pain, Bolingbroke, Kenan, Tyndal, Huxley, Darwin, Ingersoll, Wendell Phillips and the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle lessons which they failed to learn in a whole lifetime on earth: Experience is a school in which the most inapt pupils may jearn." Sending those who differ from us in opinion to hell i- , - not considered polite among the world's people."

On Sunday, the 26th ult., the Rev. D. 0. Hampton examined the children attending the Sunday School at Okaiu's Bay. The Key. gentleman expressed great satisfaction at the knowledge of the Church Catechism and Scriptural History sli3wn by the children. Prizes were awarded in the following manner :—lst Class —Ernest Chapman and Walter Hutt, 1 ; Catherine James, 2 ; and Emma Mason, 3. 2nd Class —EHen Hutt, 1 ; Fanny Harris, 2. 3rd Class—Frank Chapman, 1 ; Lily Chapman, 2 ; Edith James, d. 4th Class —Henry Thacker, 1 ; Annie Mason, 2 ; Ernest Harris, 3.

We notice that the road to the Chnrcli of England Cemetery is' stopped by a fence having been erected across it, and we desire to know—why?'

A son of Mr Shns's,atteriding the Akaroa School, met with an accident yesterday while exercising upon the horizontal ladder. By come means the lad's attention was withdrawn from what he was doing, and one of his hands slipped from its hold on the ladder, thereby causing his body to swing round and putting out either his elbow or shoulder joint. As considerable swelling set in along the arm, Dr. Guthrie is unable to say what injury has been done until such time as the swelling is reducod.

Most of our Akaroa readers will have noticed the Chinese carp or gold fish in the water of the fountain in the front of Mr Garwood's residence in Jollie Street. Mr Garwood informs us that these fish have bred, there being some three or four young strangers now sporting about with the older fish. The parent fish originally came from Honolulu, and weie obtained in Auckland by Mr Garwood, who brought them here about a year since.

Bathers at the Cemetery Point bathing place will do well to keep a good look-out, as a shark was seen on Wednesday last near Mr Wagstaff's boat, which is moored close to that spot. We give this caution as so many children bathe during the day at this place. Those who have the charge of these juvenile bathers should take every precaution for their safety.

Ap equine celebrity over hurdles and in steeplechasing performed his last exploit in that line at the late show of the Banks Peninsula Pastoral Association. We allude to Mr Beecher's sterling old horse Brown Stout, which that gentleman had destroyed on Monday last, owing to his extreme age. Mr Beecher, thinking that the old horse could not outlive the severities of another winter, reluctantly consented to his being shot. Old Brown Stout had won move money in his time than any other horse on the Peninsula, and was well known for being as game an animal as ever looked through a bridle.