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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 237, 25 October 1878, Page 2

A special meeting of the Akaroa School Committee was held in the schoolroom, on Wednesday evening last, to consider a letter from the Board of Education with reference to Committee's application for fence, and necessary repairs to master's house. The Chairman having read the Board's letter, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Billens, that the Chairman be instructed to prepare specifications, and invite tenders for the work as sanctioned by the Board. The necessary advertisement appears in another column.

A smart shock of earthquake was felt here on Monday evening last at about five minutes before eleven. By telegrams which appear in our Christchurch contemporaries it appears thatthe shock was pretty generally felt, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, and Westport being all mentioned as having experienced it. It appears to have been more severe]in Nelson than elsewhere. We learn that in that place clocks were stopped, and pictures thrown down, though rio damage was done.

A charige has taken place in the personnel of the police in Akaroa. .Constable Kuil'el haS resigned his position -in tha force, and gone into the ijroploy.ment of Messrs Garwood and Co. Mr EufFel lias earned the respect of all with whom he has been brought into contact as a conscientious officer, and wo wish him well in his new career. He is replaced by Constable Scott, who arrived from Christchurcii in the Hawua on Tuesday Just. Constable Scott will also fill the position of Inspector of. Weights and Measures.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board will take place to-morrow at the offices, Duvauchelle's Bay. Among the business to be considered is the vexed question of the Le Bon's Bay track in German Bay, upon which a committee appointed by the Board has to present its report.

As soino misunderstanding may exist as to the place were Mr Ollivier will hold his enquiry into the land compensation claims, we have been requested to state that it will be commenced to-day at 11 a.m. at the Borough Council Offices, Akaroa. The enquiry will be continued from day to day as may be necessary.

Mr C. W. Bridge notifies that ho will hold a horse par.acle and sale at O'Reilly's yards to-morrow. The sale will take place at noon. Rather a serious accident occurred to a man named. Benjamin Thomson, in Pigeon Bay, on the evening of Tuesday last It appears that the unfortunate man was riding to the beach to attend a meeting, when the horse becoming- restive, threw him and dragged him some considerable distance, completely tearing away a portion of the scalp, and it is feared injuring the skull. The sufferer was brought to the Akaroa Hospital on Wednesday evening, when Dr Guthn'e was promptly in attendance.

Under the heading of " The Innocents Abroad—A gay and festive crowd," the Evening Chronicle (Wellington) thus discourses concerning the doings of some of the excursionists who assisted in opening the railway from Wellington, to the Wiurarapa':-%"Wk know 'them'/ all, arid ; . could mention then- names; putAve rcspecsjb' their feelings and nave no desiretto chrpnjk cle domestic scenes. They; took with jtliei/i half a d,ozen cases ot{champagne\^|id'ja couple of Mitto'of' brandy, and \vli&riirey reached Featherston they hud a dispute as to whether daylight could be seen through a ladder, bui they: .were unable to settle the matter themselves, so they called in another jolly companion, and his decision was that they could if they turned it upside down. At night they turned in—some of them on tables, others under them ; one or two tried forms, and another got two bags of spuds and woke up so sore that nothing could convince him that he had not been turned out and had done eight hours on some three-inch metal. This gentleman stripped for a wash, and when he returned in search of his clothes was unable to find them. Another of the party got into the bath but when he came to dressalso discovered that his clothes were missing. After rushing about the hotel in a stale of nature • with only a towel to disfigure the outlines of his body, he was at length rolled in a blanket and thrown into the bath again, where he spluttered and swore, and floundered until he was half dead and then was lifted out and scrubbed with a bathbrick. A third gay spark lost his hat and coat, while a fourth found his boots filled with whisky and the sleeves of his coat sewn up. Then the Artillery men became happy, and securing the most inoffensive member of their crowd they lashed him in a barrow, and surrounding him with flax sticks hawked him all round the town like a-'Guy Fawkes" to the great amusement of the youth, if not the beauty of Featherston. One festive party had ordered a bottle of brandy and a bottle of whisky, but while the waiter's attention was directed elsewhere the spirits were emptied into a bucket and the bottles were refilled witli water, the brandy bottle contents being colored with vinegar. The wall paper shows 'thai-stains of the spluttering to this hour, and the waiter's rear quarters bear the mark of a number 9 E.S. But they have all reached home safely, and their wives try to believe they have had a miserable time of it and that they were unhappy away from their own homes, but they can't altogether understand the strange hats and ths odd clothes which some of the party have returned in. They have been told that in the overcrowded state of the hotels they had to take the first thing which caiue to their hands; and smiling they accept the explanation— for the time being/

The following are the clauses which the Government propose inserting in the Railways Construction Bill to meet the case of the Akaroa Railway, since the latter Bill has been virtually defeated in the Legislative, Council :—" 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in "The Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Trust Act, 187 G." (hereinafter called " the said 'Act") all moneys now standing to the credit of the special account required to be kept by the sixteenth section of the said Act, or that may be standing to the credit of the Public Trustee for the purposes of the said Act, shall be and the same arc hereby transferred to the Public Account 2. The whole proceeds of the sale or disposal of the fifty thousand acres of land mentioned in the said sixteenth section shall, together with all moneys transferred under the last preceding section, bo paid into a separate account in the Public Account. 3. The land desciibed in the Second Schedule hereto shall bo, and the same is hereby declared to be Crown lands of special value, open for sale or disposal as other Crown lands of special value .may" be sold or disposed of in^the-I^nd'District", of Canterbury, but the proceeds of* such" sale or disposal shall be paid . into the < separate account to bejujpt ,under the laat preceding section, i S. All, moneys trails i'erred, paid, or received undc.r the provisions of sections to inclusive, shall be applied in the construction and maintenance of a line of railway to Little River from the main line from Amberley to Waitaki, or from a branch of the said line ; and the Colonial Treasurer may from time to time cause all or any part of such moneys to be issued and applied accord-

ingly." A correspondent writes as follows from Little liiver respecting-a dramatic troupe that has been performing in that locality : —"On Saturday night we were treated to a dramatic performance by the Murray Troupe* from Melbourne. They are juveniles, but of a class that we are not accustomed to see. I can scarcely do justice to their skill, both as musicians.and artistes, and with dreases that would not disgrace any city. The acting of the little leading lady, who is only 12 years of age, is something wonderful. There ia a depth and pathos in her voice that I have seldom seen exceeded on any stage in England. I understand from their agent, Mr Murray, they are natives of New Zealand, and have had good houses through Canterbury. They have been requested to give another peformance vrhen the young troupe will leave en route for Wellington. Should they visyt Akaroa, lam convinced they will astonish you."

A meeting of those interested in cricket was held at Beecher's Hotel .on Thursday, 17th, "for the purpose of forming an Akaroa Cricket. Club. There was a moderate attendance., and Mr Tosswill was/voted to the chair.' Mr F. F. Barker proposed and Mr\H. Bridge seconded, that a clsub should be formed called the Akaroa Cricket Club, ..which was carried. The election of officers then took place, Mr rTossJwill.bejhg 'elected President; Mr.F. F. "ferker, Captain ;W'W;|lughes, Honl Sec. and A committee was formed of the following:--Messra Tosswill, Bridge, Barry, and Hughes. A vote of thanks to the Chairman being passed, the meeting adjourned. At a subsequent meeting of the Committee on Saturday, 19th, the following members were elected. Messrs Welchman, La Coste, Daly, Alger, Riches, J. Hughes, Harlock, Worsley, Wood, Bruce, W. Watkins, Dr. Guthrie, Tosswill, Jun., Robertshaw, Masefield, Davenport, Berland, and Broderick. After the election a challenge was forwarded to the Little Biver.Cricket Club, to play a match on November, 9th. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting adjourned to Saturday, 20th, at 8 o'clock,

A meeting of the Regatta Committee is convened for this evening at Beecher's. Hotel. As important business will be brought forward, a full attendance is requested.