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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 384, 9 April 1880, Page 2

An accident, which might have turned out a very serious one, occurred in Waikerakikari Bay on Friday to John Smith, foreman to Mr John Smith, mill owner. The tackle which is used to haul up surf boats carried away, and the heavy iron block struck him in the hip, making a severe flesh wound, knocking him over and bruising him very much about the body. However, ho is recovering rapidly-

We observe that the s.s. Akaroa is to sail hence for Lyttelton on Saturday (tomorrow). She leaves Lyttelton to-night at 12 o'clock. Messrs Garwood and Co. are the agents.

Elsewhere will be found notification of an auction sale of furniture, &c, to be held to-morrow on the ptemises, opposite Mr Brown's bakery. The articles are for absolute sale, as the owner is leaving the district. A sewing machine and a small and varied lot of drapery will, be offered after the sale of furniture.

We would remind our readers of the entertainment announced to take place on Monday next at the Oddfellows' Hall. The object is a most deserving one, being to provide funds to assist a man named James Turner, who has been disabled by an accident which occurred to him in tbe prosecution of his avocation, and whose injuries threaten to be of a chronic character. Apart from the benevolent nature of the projected performance, we believe that those who patronise it can depend upon being well amused. All the available local talent has been busy practising for some time past, and their efforts to amuse will, we are sure, not be quite thrown away. One great defect of the new hall has been remedied for this occation, as the promoters of this entertainment have erected some scenery which vv ill enable the performances to be gone through with considerably greater effect than would be possible on a vast extent of unenclosed stage.

The Lyttelton Times of Monday contained the statement that the libel action, Crisp, v. Ivess had been settled out of court. In explanation of tbe above, Mr Ivess writes as follows to the same journal:—Permit me to correct you on one point. There was no settlement whatever in the matter, as I was only too anxious to have the facts of the case brought before the judge. The Crown, however, declined to prosecute, being of opinion that there was no case, and the prosecutor himself would not hazard going on with it, although "bound over to prosecute " in the Ashburton Resident Magistrate's Court. I am, &c, Josem Ivess.

The civil sittings of the Supreme Court commence on Monday next in Christchurch. The case set down for hearing •on that day is " Bracken v. Price, alias Darrell " The plaintiff in this case is the well-known editor and part proprietor of the Saturday Advertiser, and the defendant is almost equally widely known as an actor, dramatic author, and the husband of the late Mrs Heir, nee Fanny Cathcart. In these days, when the air has been fairly bristling with wars and rumors of wars in the shape of libel prosecutions against the Press, it is almost refreshing to find a newspaper man assuming the aggressive, and seeking solatium for imputations on his character. For this is an action for libel, be it remembered. It is to be heard before a special jury.