The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 364, 16 January 1880, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.

. Tliose interested will observe that the new valuation rolls of the several local

bodies in the district are now open for inspection, as indicated in the various advertisements in another column. It is to

the interest of every holder of property to carefully inspect those rolls, not only to see that he himself is correctly entered and rated, but also to # see that his neighbor is the same, so that the taxation of the district is borne fairly.

A traveller by the Summit road between the Long Bay new road and the Saddle at Le Bon's, informs us that the part of this road indicated is really dangerous for travallers. After the recent rain, large pieces of the road have slipped into the valley beneath. It is a great pity the County Council does not'undertake the maintenance of the whole of the Summit road, not only on the score of its being useful to the residents in the district, but as contributing to the pleasures of the holiday-maker who, from all the points of vantage, gets magnificent panoramic views of the harbour and Peninsula, and this last is a point of importance, tempting the excursionist, as, in the present low price of grass seed and cheese, we, like the Swigs, must fall back upon our scenery as our only source of profit.

The Gazette of the Bth inst. contains regulations under which dutiable goods may be exported and delivered for exhibition purposes at the forthcoming International Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne in 1880, free of duty. The same •Gazette also contains lists of gentlemen appointed to be Registrars of Marriages— an intimation that may be more interesting •to come of our neighbors than the first. On Monday last an. awkward accident happened to a lad named John Castle, residing at Little River. While engaged ■in falling a tree, the axe slipped and penetrated his right leg, inflicting a nasty wound. Mr Brodrick was at once sent for, and sewed up the wound, and the sufferer is progressing favorably under his care. Respecting the late strike in the Telegraph Department the Saturday Advertiser remarks:—" Now that the strike of the telegraphic operators is over, it is rather late in the day to comment at any length on the question at issue. We may remark, however, that our sympathy goes with the strikers, and we can only regret that the movement was not properly organised. The pay which telegraphic operators receive for the long hours which they are forced to work, is ridiculously low, and we think if the Government desires to do justice to its employes in this department it will commence at once to retrench in high quarters, and at the same time raise the salaries of its telegraphic operators, who at present are anything but adequately remunerated for their services."