The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 427, 24 August 1880, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24.

Owito to the late tempestuous weather telegraph communication between the North and South was cut off on Friday last and wasn't resumed when we went to press. Amongst the business to be {brought before the R.M. Court to-day are several charges against the local hotel-keepers for alleged breaches of the Public House Ordinance. We would draw of mem--bersof the Mutual .Improvement Societyto a notice in another column requesting their attendance at a meeting to be held in the schoolroom to-iworow evening at 7.30.

We hope our readers in various parts of the Peninsula are not forgetting the forthcoming Industrial Exhibition. The committee, both ladies and gentlemen, are working quietly away, and using every exertion to render the affair a success. It rests, however, with the public at large to second their efforts] in a practical manner. Donations of prizes are urgently required, and all who possess artistic ability of any kind may also assist by proposing novelties for exhibition either with or without competition. We understand that the ladies committee have thoroughly revised the schedule as far as needlework is concerned. Foe the information of any of our readers who may desire to visit the Telegraph Station here we would mention that the entrance formerly used for the Post office will in future be the mode of ingress and egress to the Telegraph Department. The entrance to the Post office is through a door leading into the small lean-to lately affixed to the old building and supposed to be an improvement.

Messrs W. H. Wood and Co., announces another of their periodical cattle sales, to take place on Thursday, at Mr Shadbolt's yards, Head of the Bay. ' Oh the last occasion of the first announcing a sale the weathor. was very unpropitious and a large number of cattle entered were not placed. The present sale is not likely to suffer from such a cause, and we anticipate a good gathering.

A special meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui Board was held at their Chambers, Duvauchelle's Bay, on Saturday last, the 21st met, when Messrs Chappel (Chairman) Piper, Shadbolt, Williams, and Me Donald were present. The principal object in calling the meeting for that day had been to receive the award of the arbitrators in the disputed case concerning , the allocation of funds due to the Wainui and Lake Forsyth road extension, but as the award had not come to hand when the meeting was on it could not be considered. The chief business, therefore, which was transacted was instructing the Clerk to make arrangements with Mr Barret of Wainui to permit the public to make a temporary use of a portion of his land in lieu of the road through Mr McKay's land which the latter had caused to be closed to instruct the Clerk to telegraph to W. Montgomery, Esq., M.11.R., asking that gentleman to ascertain from the Pnblic Works Department what steps had been taken towards the closing of the old road and the opening of the new road through Rhodes' Flat and the appointing of a Ranger to impound cattle found trespassing along the roads in the district.

Onk of the effects of the late gale was to blow the County Council chambers, Duvauchellc's Bay, out of the perpendicular. On Saturday during the sitting of the Council it was discovered that the outer door could not be opened. On the wind changing round to the southward, as it did later in the day, the building was blown back again into its correct position. This want of rigidity may be convenient but it has its inconveniences and it will probably be found necessary to effect Boine alteration to remedy it. We learn that at a meeting held in the Congregational Chapel on Friday evening to consider matters in connection with the Dissenting Cemetery, it was decided that only throe members should be appointed on the Cemetery Board at present, as that number could be altered or increased when necessity arose. Messrs Bruce, Morey and Burns were the gentlemen selected. A vote of thanks was paseed to the Chairman, Mr W. Barnett, and the meeting terminated.

We learn that our indefatigable friend and brother journalist, Mr J. Ivoss, intends starting a paper in the Waikato district, north of Auckland, to run in opposition to the " Waikato Times."