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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 223, 6 September 1878, Page 2

We understand that the nomination of members to serve in the Borough Council in place of Crs Bridge, Cullen, and Penlington, whose period of office has expired took place about mid-day yesterday. The proceedings were confined to the nomination of candidates as required by the Act, and were of a merely formal nature. Mr Henning was nominated by Messrs Vangioni and Holding , Mr Bridge by Messrs M'Gregor and Gutberlet; Mr Penlington by Messrs Annand and Gutberlet ; and Mr Cullen by Messrs Meech and O'Reilly. Owing to a mistake on the part of one of Mr Bridge's nominators, his nomination was almost too late to be received ; but luckily this error was rectified in time.

A man named Wm. Wood met with a serious accident when employed at Mr Smith's mill, at Le Bon's Bay, on Wednesday last. It appears that while working at the bench and detaching a slab from a log after coming from the saw, the piece of timber so severed fell on his leg, breaking the bone below the knee. The sufferer was conveyed to Akaroa yesterday, being carried on a stretcher to German Bay whence he was conveyed in a cart to the hospital at Akaioa. As yet we are unable to state the medical opinion on the fracture as swelling caused by the patient's long journey must be reduced before the operation of setting can be performed. It is unfortunately the practice in cases of accident at a distance, to remove the sufferer at once for medical treatment thereby inducing irritatiou of the fracture; we should certainly recommend that the patient in all cases should have immediate medical advice and that subsequent rem ova should be under medical supervision. In connection with a bazaar held yesterday in aid of the funds of St Luke's Church, Christchurch, a telephone enterainment was given between the telegraph offices at that town and Akaroa. The Oddfellows' Hall in Christchurch was, we understand, connected by a wire with the Christchurch office ; and the entertainment was conducted by Messrs Robertshaw, and Meddings. Messrs Daly (cornet) and H. Bridge assisted in Akaroa, giving various Christy Minstrel glees, and solos. "By request" a laugh was telephoned to Mr Meddings, and was duly appreciated. The experiments are to be repeated this evening Referring to the report published elsewhere of the dinner given to the members of the Akaroa and Lake Ellesmere Trust, we may add that the whole affair was a great success, that the district was well represented, and that it " went off with great elite, and was attended by all the eclat " of the Peninsula, to quote the words of a contemporary. A casual friend of ours, in a moment of enthusiasm, was so far carried away by the eloquence of Mr C. W. Bridge, at Mr Armstrong's -sale, on Wednesday last, as to buy a somewhat unnecessary cow. We understand that it is his intention to fill it with whisky, so that the combination with the milk may form a cheerful morning beverage. We are ourselves in treaty for the animal, with a view to sending it round with our advertisements pasted upon its patient sides. We observe by the European telegrams that troubles have by no means ceased in Bulgaria. The Russians and Bulgarians are both accused of the grossest outrages, and a protest has been entered by the British, French, Italian, and Turkish delegates. The Russians and the German representatives refused their signatures to the report; the Austrian was absent through "indisposition," a term which may convey a double meaning. The general outcry throughout Europe, howerer,has compelled the Russians to despatch troops to a place called Gamboli, to protect the Turks and Jews. Considerable bloodshed appears to have taken place. His Excellency the Governor arrived in Lyttelton in H.M.S. Nymphe at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. He was met by some of the principal citizens connected with the Port and Christchurch, and the shipping was decorated with the usual profusion of bunting in his honor. His Excellency and suite proceeded by special train to town, where they were received by the Mayor, City Councillors, Recorder, Judge Johnston, and other gentlemen. The Artillery in Port fired a salute, and the Engineers and City Guards formed a guard of honor at the Christchurch station. The Yeomanry composed the escort. The Mayor delivered the usual address, which was replied to by His Excellency. Yesterday the Governor was to re-open the Museum, and in the evening attend a banquet at the Municipal ■'Council' Chambers. The Australians have pla)ed an eighteen of Hastings, but we have not asyet received ,the telegram giving the result.

We clip the following from a Dnnedin contemporary, but aro glad to learn that the facts are not as represented by that journal: " The match which has just terminated in a draw between the Dunedin and Christchurch Football Teams has a serio-comic as well as a sentimental side. As only the, latter has been presented to the public through the columnsof our contemporaries, and as it is positively unfair .to " our visitors" and their entertainers that their greatest exploits should be Unrecorded, we hasten to supply the omission. The dinner which followed the match, in the Shamrock Hotel, was one of the most exciting aud hilarious events of the kind that has ever electrified the city. The excellence of Host Phillips' liquor, combined with the stirring eloquence of the Chairman, Judge Bathgate, proved too much for the excitable dispositions of the juveniles. Hear, hear, hoorays! and yells of an unintelligible description became the order of the night at an early stage of the proceedings, and the jargon of the revellers could be beard floating from the Bell Tower half-way to South Dunedin. Even the genius of a Cruickshank could not graphically depict the scene as one after another the uproarious kickists [mounted chairs and table, distending their ample mouths so widely as almost to conceal the rest of their features j and howling vociferously. Meantime the fun was intensified by the more soberminded of the company, shying lumps of cheese and other missiles down the throats of the shrieking kickists. The scene of revelry terminated—to the relief we presume the landlord—by the company dispersing about midnight. A group proceeded along Princes street, and on reaching the Octagon the spectacle at the corner of the street of a poor old halfblind retailer of pies and coffee inside his box tickled their manly and mischiefloving propensities. One of the most daring stepping forward, seized a cup, and with an exclamation, which we will not repeat, dashed it into fragments on the footpath. This appeared to be the signal to his companions, who, getting behind the stall, immediately threw it forward on the footpath and scampered off. Luckily, there was not much coffee or boiling water in the apparatus, and the poov vendor of these luxuries and his son —a little boy who keeps him company at night—escaped being scalded to death. Acting on the advice of his friends, the itinerant pieman called at the Criterion Hotel yesterday and had an interview with some of " our visitors." On requesting them to compensate him for the damage they had done, he was told defiantly that " He had better mind what he said." This was adding insult to in jury, and a well known tradesman, learning the circumstances, interviewed the Inspector of Police on the subject. Inspector Mallard, it is hardly necessary to say, acted with his customary promptitude, and proved, as he has frequently done in similar cases, that he in no respecter of persons. What transpired we are not iv a position to state, but within an hour from the time that the Inspector of Police had been called upon, " our visitors" sought out the pieman, and settled their little joke by paying him £6 in full of all demands. It is believed tha l the lesson they have learned of the ex pensive nature of practical joking—esp c. eially when the sports takes the form of cruelty and inhumanily and endangers life—will have a salutary influence on these spiritsd young gentlemen in futureAt all events there is a general feeling of satisfaction in this city that the pieman after all has got rather the best of the joke, and that "our visitors "'will hardly venture to boast of their " high jinks" in Dunedin, when the sequel to their festivities becomes known in christchurch.

By a slow process of atrophy the resources of the borough, and, we might sny of the district, are being exhausted The suicidal policy and shortsighted selfishness, of those amongst us who are capitalists leads them to expend their resources in Christchurch and Dunedin, instead of their legitimate outlet, the town and district from which they have been derived. Nor is this all ; little or none of these funds return in any way to benefit the Peninsula We have heard enough about the localisation of the Land Fund ; it would not be a bad thing if our wealthy citizens would turn their attention to the localisation of private and commercial expenditure. The adoption of such a course would have al_ the advantages and none of the evils of protection. Christchurch and Dunedin have quite a sufficient outlet for their trade already, and that in localities which are not, like our own, capable of self-support. Neither is any form of compulsion or legislation necessary ; public opinion, a force as powerful as any law, ought to bo sufficient, not to mention self-interest* which is perhaps more powerful than either. We would earnestly recommend the consideration of this question to our readers, both for their own interests and for the interests of tho unfortunately, at present, somewhat isolated district in which they have pitched their teats.

As a proof of the heavy weather which has been experienced outside the Heads we may remark that two specimens of the Gannet or Solon goose (Sul a Bassana) were yesterday driven inland. These birds, we believe, are very rarely seen but at some distance off shore. If the Latin n ame is not rigid, our classical correspondent must slate the Natural History book in the Library. It is there in print.

The Batoum difficulty seems to be in a fair way of being compromised, the question of Russian occupation being waived in consideration of payment of tribute. An apparently contradictory telegram later states that the evacuation of Batoum has commenced. The Westport Times possesses a various ahd peculiar staff. The issue of August 30 last, announces " Pewter, glass, earthenware and fountain reporters." The last named class pf journalists would, however, be unnecessary among our own community. Our Borough magnates need no assistance in the matter of " spouting." The Maori prophet, Te Whiti, announces, as we see by the telegram, that the 17th of March next will be the Aceldama, or Day (? Field) of Blood. As the 17th of March is St. Patrick's Day, it is to be hoped that this is not intended as a reflection on the pugnacious propensities of the sons of the Green Isle. The following is Punch's comment on the late success of the Australians at home, and may interest our cricketing friends :— " The Australians came down like a wolf on the fold, The Marylebone cracks for a trifle were bowled ; Our Grace before dinner was very soon done, Our Grace afier dinner did not get a run." The place described in the European telegrams as " Gamboli," is most probably Jamboli on one of the roads leading to Adrianople. Unfortunately for the telephone experiments which were to be continued this evening, the wire has been found to be interrupted between Akaroa and Christchurch, so that the continuance of the interesting performance of Wednesday evening has been postponed. For the same reason our usual telegrams have not reached us. The damage to the wire is said to be somewhere in the neighborhood of Wascoe's Hotel.