The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 264, 28 January 1879, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28.

A meeting of the Peninsula Jockey Club was held on Saturday evening at Wascoe's Hotel. The members present were Messrs B. Shadbolt (in the chair), W. and F. Birdling, Wascoe, Gebbie, dhsor, A. G. Wiggins, and A. I. M'Gregor Secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. On the motion of Mr Gebbie. Mr H. Hawkins was added to the list of stewards. A programme for a day's racing was drawn up, which appears elsewhere. It will be observed that the prizes for some of the principal eventß have been materially increased as compared with previous meetings. It was agreed that Mr Wascoe should have the exclusive right to erect a publican's and refreshment booth on the ground, he paying £5 for the privilege. Any temporary stands to be charged 10s each. The meeting adjourned to meet again on the morning of the races.

Owing to the necessary length of our reports of the County and Borqpgh Council meetings, we are compelled to hold over our leading article and other items of interest. What appears to be a dastardly outrage was committed on the "night of.' Friday. It appears that two drays belonging to Messrs Everall and Gunning, the contractors who are at present at work in Robinson's Bay, were laboriously dragged to the edge of a steep declivity and rolled ov,or the bank, falling on the road, whence they rebounded into the sea, and were broken nearly to-pieces., Besides, this a quantity of .tools and harness were wantonly destroyed. The Resident Magistrate, who was. on his way to Little River early, on Saturday morning, was the first to notice the injury and inform Mr Everall df it. We only hope that the, malicious perpetrators will soon be called upon to interview that gentleman in his official capacity on the subject.

The annual meetiug of householders for the purpose ot electing a School Committee for the Akaroa District for the ensuing year, was hold at the school, last evening. The following gentlemen were elected as a committee, in the order named :-rMessrs Meech, Wiggins, Missen f Toliwill, Billens, Fenton, and Dalglish. Mr Meech was afterwards elected chairman. A fuller report of the proceedings shall appear in

our next,

By latest advices from the South we learn that Mr Conyers, Commissioner of Railways, who was so severely injured on the late through trip to Invercargill, is progressing favorably. An important sale of land and cattle takes place to-day at the Criterion Hotel. Mr H. E. Alport will offer, by direction of the Trustee in the estate of John Flutey, late of Okain's Bay, a number of sections of freehold land situated in that locality, together with some valuable cattle. Full particulars appear in our advertising columns. We are informed that the Californian quail procured a short time .ago by Mr J Aylmer and a few other gentlemen, have been liberated. It is hoped that youths and others' of sporting proclivities will have the good sense not to molest these birds, ao that they may have a fair chance of establishing themselves in their new location.