THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 167, 22 February 1878, Page 3

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

short time since, a gentleman (Mr Andrews) essayed to deliver a lecture on the Eastern Question, in the Town Hall, and a number of the residents of Akaroa and elsewhere assembled to hear the question explained; but those present, evidently thinking that they were •quite as able to solve the conundrum as the lecturer, refused to listen to him, and by their action, Akaroa was deprived of .what would, doubtless, have been a very interesting lecture. (?) Be that as it may, I have no right to complain of their action; but what I and a number of other'of your readers on the Peninsula do complain of -at the present time, is, that we are not of the present war, and my object in writing now, is to suggest that you, Sir, or some one of your readers would, through your columns, give a brief outline of the campaign, as it proceeds, weekly. Such an article would be interesting, I have no -doubt, to all your readers, the more so at the present time, seeing that it is inevitable, judging from the latest cable news, that England will be involved in the strife. The cablegrams that you publish are as inexplicable as they are vague, and as the Mail is about the whole of my weekly mental food, you will not wonder at myself and others wishing to be enlightened a little more on the above subject. Apologising for trespassing on your space, I beg to subscribe myself, dear Sir, yours, &c, NUMBSKULL. Akaroa, Feb. 20,1878.