The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24.

Wβ notice; that fl, .'meeting;is« convened for Monday evening next, to beheld at the Somerset Hotel j Head of the Bay, to take for getting up a race meeting in that locality on Boxing Day.

An estrbftdinary case of alleged personation is now under investigation .by;,.the E.M. Courts'at'Ghristchurch and Tjinaru. It appears that about ten or twelve years 'ago one Edward James bought one hundred acres land with a valuable allotment. He afterwards'left for the West Coast, and was drowned in one of the rivers. After alkpse'of time; living near the land fenced it in, taking possession. The other person finding that the real owner was dead, discovered another Edward James, and asked him to sell the property. He said he had no land; they.said-he had and,'as alleged, offered him. £500 for his signature to a deed of conveyance of the property, which is.now said to be worth a very large' sum of money. James asserts ■while the-tarnsaction was pending he was plied with liquor, and while in this state was taken to a solicitor, when the deed was executed, andji cheque for £500 paid to the solicitor.' James declares thai all the money he received" was about £15. ; The j: •holders of the dded , afterwards itrjed to object tp the, ; occupier, but the latter obtaining,legal advice, the whole thing came out James went to Wanganui. Soon after-he, went, to. Forty-mile Bush, and the police could not find him. It is said that ti>9 -persons; cot in transaction were all occupying good positions. The town allotment is on the Main South road. Henry Daniel Manning'has been arrested on; warrant, and brought before the Bench at Tiniaru on a charge of aiding . and.dbetting the commission,of the alleged forgery. ■ At the Christchurch R. M. Court, Alfred Godfrey Sauriders has ap r peared on a similar charge in relation, to >the same case,' Another peculiar 5 feature 'about the case isihat aj search warrant has been executed in the office of a well known solicitor with the object: of discovering a certain 'deed, which/was ultimately, handed over to the police nnder• protest; ■'"<'■■ j

/Many -o£ ; ; thfr caaditates , who ; 'figured t rift the, }New Zealand ParUamentibelong journalism, and so.me,haye ■ been. ( j for. number of years associated with Prefes enterprise in various parts of the Colony:; Among / tii'ose fortunate enough to secure; seats in t;he Assembly are—Messrs R. C. Reid,' West' Coast Times; J. Ballance, typnganyi fferald; J, Shephard, Nelson | Coloist;. E.|;Wakefield, Tintarit Heratd; J.W; Bain, Southland Times} F. Waitaker,' Waikato Times ; C. A. de Lautour, late of thp/Mount Jda Chronicle ; and the , 'cl esf&i- /and versatile:/Yjncent Pike,formerl}'editor of the Southern Mercury. The defeated where—Messrs W. J. Steward late of the Nprth Otago . for mftiiy years editor of I the Lake-Walcatyp Mail; J. P.. Joyce, editor Southland, News; and H. Feld wick, one of the proprietors of the Southland News. Thelast-riame.dgen-' tleman sustained a double defeat, having been beaten for Invercargill by Mr J. W. Bain, and for Geraldine by Mr E. Wakefield.—Printer's Register.

The South Canterbury Times has changed being succeeded by Messrs late of Dunedin. feat] yet express in New Zealand of returns from places in'the Franklyn district, AfaekH&t^ recent general election. ,• The at 4 o'clock, and, ,th& 4wtrict/overed fifty, square miles, the returns were all in the Auckland Evening.star.£ffice before £,30. Tr y I P i '' I[V-; "i 4 ' ?" /- r; ,\