The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 354, 9 December 1879, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9.

We understand that Miss Connell intends giving a pianoforte recital on Friday even ing-et the Town Hall. The performers will consist entirely of her pupils. Admission will be by tickets, which may be obtained of any of Miss Connell's pupils. ~We have no doubt that there will be a large musterof parents and friends, and those who are interested in the musical education of the young.

A special meeting of the Akaroa Borough Council was held on Friday evening for the purpose of considering a letter from Messrs.Edmiston Brothers, the Council's agents, re letting the Ashburton Reserves. It was considered necessary to furnish the firm in question with a reserve price, (N.B. —No joke intended.) The Council determined to telegraph to the auctioners, asking their opinion on the matter, and adjourned till the next evening. On Saturday evening there was no quorum present, but as a reply had been received from Messrs Edmiston, we believe that his Worship the Mayor took the necessary action in the matter. For obvious reasons, we do not give publicity to the

price fixed upon,

Here is a " frightful example " for the " Stop my paper " gentlemen, and, as the Professor would remark, " the worst of it t's true." The Hon. W. S. Peters, ofMount Somers, in a fit of indignation stopped his subscription to the Ashburton Mail during the late general election. The Mail has been amply revenged, for a horse belonging to that hon. gentlemen, worth £40, has just been sold at the Ashburton pound for £18, the pound notices Which appeared in the Mail having failed to find their way to Peters' home station. Mr Peters has saved about a guinea a year, at the cost of losing his horse as well as his newspaper. Penny wise and pound foolish "

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, in Christchurch, on Friday, Mr Richard Davis, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, appeared to answer six informations charging him with having filed certain documents in the fjuprerae Court without their having the n<ecessary stamps affixed to them. Evidence having been taken, the Bench commeorted strongly upon the action of the defendant, and said theie could be no doubt of hie moral criminality in misappropriating moneya paid for stamps. They inflicted penalties amounting in the aggregate to £90 and costs.

Aβ yfa'll be seen bfj advertisement elsewhere, the programme of the Akaroa Regatta has been amended and several new items added. The Model Yacht Race promisee to be of th?> most interesting event on the programwae, and as it is decided to be sailed rouj.id a square between the wharves, a good view will be had by those ashore. Thete is also a sailing race for boys under 18, in boats 18 feet keel or under. As iio race of this kind has taken place here before we will expect to see a good muster of the youngsters. A more extended fiotice will appear in our next issue.