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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 255, 27 December 1878, Page 3

other consequencee of \he law of • e<jual partition in France, it certainly has' developed the passion of industry to'an .unprecedented degrfee. The French peasant, owning hi«iland, works and saves, -asnb man works and saves, certainly not the Englishman, wlijb, though industrious, hae not ac-' quired posspskion of .property the instinct of tinpfti Tweni? years "hence, if peace fnn be'maintained, France will only jfeel her taxation as a whip, .stimulating :an industry which, if it reaped its full re»wiird, might flag from "plethora. a Ge.ner.al SERVANT, One that can milk preferred. Apply to MRS; CHATFIELD, Barry's Bay. AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD ; DUVAUCHELLE'S BAY. ■ v PURSUANT to '• The Regulation JT of Local Elections Act, 1876," I, John Berwick, Returning Oflcer for the Akaroa and Wainui Road District, hereby give notice that t&e following persons have been "duly nominated as candidates for the office of saembers of t.he above Board, viz.:— John Duxbury CollM'Donald And I further declare the said candidates to be DULY ELECTED in terms of sec. 13 of the above recited Act, the number of candidates not exceeding the number of vacancies to be filled. : JOHN BARWICK, Returning Officer. ' Road Board Office, ■ Duvauchelle's.Bay, This 26th day of December, 1878. HEAD OF THE BAY' ANNUAL RACES, TO BE HELP ON THE BEACH, HEAD OF THE BAY, ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27. Stkwaups : W. Birdling, Esq. J. Beechor, Esq. B. Shadbolt, „ A. Wiggins, „ ■H. riper, „ A. I. AHlrctfor, . „ F. "Williams „ J. Duxbury, ■„ S. Lee, ,) IS. Johnson, ~ Judge—W. Birdling, Esq. Starter—S. Johnson, Esq. Handicappkr— J. Diixhmy. Esq. (Jlkrk of the Coi'RSrc—^\^. Hiniling. junT Treasurers —»S. Lee &B. Shad bolt, Esqs.

PROGRA M M E : — Thursday, Decembkr' 26. First race to start at 11.30 a.m. SECOND DAY. Fiuday, December 27. First race to start at 12 o'clock. 1. TRADESMEN'S HANDICAP of 10 soys. For district horses. Heats. Nomination, 10s; acceptance, 10s. ■ 2., SAPLING STAKES—A district race of 7£ soys., for two-year-olds. ■ Colts, 7st 41b ; fillies, 7st. Entrance, 10s. 3. TROTTING RACE—A handicap of 1\ soys., for district horses ; twice across the beach ; no weight under lOst. Nomination, Os ; acceptance, 10s. 4. PONY RACE, fur boys' ponies under 14 hands. For whip and spurs presented by Mr Kissell. Entrance 10.5.. Post entry. Catch weights: 5. CONSOLATION STAKES — A handicap of 5 sots., for all beaten, horses at the meeting. Entrance, . 10s. Post entry. EULES. Races for District Horses, shall mean for all horses that have been for not less than three months prior to the meeting ■within the following prescribed boundary, viz.:—The head of Lyttelton Harbor to Gebbie's Flat, and owned by bona fide residents of that district. All races are the length of the beach, about three-quarters of a mile. Three horses to pay up for each race' or the stakes will be withheld. The second horse saves his stakes in all races, the ameunt to be deducted from the stakes. No entry will be received unless both owner and nominator be subscribers to the fund of not less than 20s. Jockeys will be taxed 2s 6d, to go to the fund. j All protests must be made in writing to the Secretary -within an hour after the race, accompanied by a deposit of 20s i which will be forfeited if the protest is considered frivolous, the decision of the Stewards to be final.

RURAL SPORTS Will be ■ held in the intervals between the races, a programme for yAhich has appeared in the Akakoa Mail of the •20th iiißt. / g.'h.^%4dler, f - s*i Secretary.