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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 296, 20 May 1879, Page 2

Another vacancy has occurred in the Borough Council through the resignation of Cr Billens. . The yearly election of two auditors is also impending. ' The returning officer has fixed Monday, May 26, as the day for receiving nominations of candidates for the former vacancy, and Saturday, the 24th, for the latter. The poll (if necessary) for councillor will take place on June 6, and that for auditors, as fixed by the Act, on June 2. A complete programme of rural sports, to be held at the Head of the Bay on Saturday next, has been issued by the committee. The events to be contested include men's tod' Boys' races from half a mile to 100 yards. " These events are varied by the usual concomitants of three-legged race, sack race, egg race, .&c, and the committeo also promise tb provide a " well garnished greasy pole." Altogether, there should be amusement for both young and old. The horse races, particulars of which appear elsewhere, will be' interspersed among the rural sports.

By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that tenders are invited for leasing an educational reserve containing 80 acres, and situate at Robinson's Bay. Plans of the reserve and conditions of lease may be seen at our office and at the Road Board office, Duvauchelle's Bay. "'. made a. 'tci When the; work of' buildjpg the new Pdst and 1 Telegraph Office at .Duyauchelle'B Bay would be commenced. ; The .time for reception o_Mehde*-S was May 5. We ob-se-Ve,by Wlvertisement in another column that fresh tenders are invited, probably I because no eligible tender had been receiyed in response., to the former, invitation. Fresh tenders will bje received at the Public Works Office, Christchurch, up to Friday, June 6, The following is not a bad idea to raise thewind:—A mail in kastdrton Wks autni ilioned the other day for £3, and great waf his wrath. When his anger subsided (says .he Wairarapa Daily), and reflection resumed its sway, he took the summons round to everybody who owed him money, .aid-—""Look here; you must pay ro of I shall be Bent up for twenty-eight days."'' The creditors- handed up their mi-tiey, and- before night our friend had d6._-d_cT £36 on the Strength of the £3 summon., and his last prayer before retiring to rest was for another summons to be served upon him, A meeting of "the unemployed" was hold in front of the • Post-office in Christchurch on Monday last. The speakers were a Mr John Lee and Charles Clemens.. The latter gentleman is, we fancy, not unknown in Akarbai He is Evidently not afraid of povi. erfuT remedied for the exiting depreesio-n..,1 He ;had r two remedial measures to propose for the evils complained of. . w One.was to have ','Julius MeVogel (sidy strung up by the heels. God Almighty ouglit not to let him die. He should r live, and rbe punished."; The speaker did not condescend to explain the special manner in which tin's somewhat rough treatment of the Agent-General was ■to benefit the working classes of New Zealand. His second remedy was of a < still more drastic nature. "People ought to burn the public-houses, if they did not shut them up. The women, as well ,as the ' men, would go to the public-houses. The women were the ruin of the. if they did but know it. The women should have less to do, and the men more." That the working.classes,are feeling the pressure of the present general depression is no doubt true, but it is an unfortunate circumstance that blatant loafers 'tit the above type invariably constitute ; themsalves spokesmeli for the genuine working man, who, as a rule, is willing enough to act, but averse to talk. As a significant commentary on the above meeting, we may mention ihat at the last meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board, the Clerk of Works Btatefl that he had considerable difficulty in obtaining labor.