Local and General.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 458, 10 December 1880, Page 2

Local and General.

Mr Thomas Brooks reports that at his sale on Friday last, working bullocks fetched £7 15s to £9 per head ; store cows, £i ; yearlings, £2 2s; calves* weaned, £1 3s ; 1 bull sold for £5 ; 1 fat pig, £2 - a great demand existed for young pigs, but none were yarded. A sligut scare was created last week by a rumour of tbe existence of .another case of diphtheria in Akaroa. The Town Clerk at once communicated with the Health Officer, Dr Guthrie, and ascertained that there was no truth whatever in the report. We have been informed by Dr Guthrie that in the case which he originally reported at Wagstaff's Hotel the patient isdecidely convalescent, and that for some time past there has been no dr.n<r C r whatever of infection. We congratulate the town on this disease having been strictly confined to the one casoj and hope that any fears which have ex i.-ted as to the danger of its spreading will now be thoroughly allayed.

Prkssube on our space compels us to hold over communications from our own correspondents at Littlo River and Dunedin, as well as other items.

.A meeting'of the Regatta Committee is convened for this evening at Bruce's Hotel. As the business is importan' a full attendance is requested,- The right to erect booths on the Beach reserve opposite Garwood's store will be sold by aaction on the ground to-morrow..

Till Tuesday last considerable doubt existed as to whether an excursion steamer whs to run between Lyttelton to Akaroa on Anniversary day. In fact it seemed very unlikely that such would be the case, a* on the two la-st occasions the failure of these trips in a pecuniary sense Ims been complete. Tbe Managing Director has, however, been induced to lay a steamer on at the special request of Mr J. D. Garwood. We sincerely hope the venture may prove a success on this occasion, and whatever additional eclat is cor.fern-d upon our local festivities by the presence of a number of excursionists, we must remember will have been due to the persuasive eloquence of J. D. G.

Thk Licensing Court had a short sitting on Tuesday, His Worship the Resilient Magistrate and 11. 11. Fenton, Esq., being the Commissioners present. There were no new applications, and all the licensed houses were well reported on by the police. The sitting was therefore a merely formal one. Cole's great show, consisting of Circus, menagerie and museum of living wonders, opened in Christchurch on Tuesday Although they show arrived a day before the time announced, a large audience was present at the first performance. Among the performing animals are elephants, camels, a cage of lions, and the usual variety of horses. The side show include-! two dwarfs, a livirigjskelet< n, the inevitable learned pig, a phonograph and other wonders. The circus tent is illuminated hy electric light.

The Akaroa Borough Council invites tenders for the removal of weeds from the streets. Tenders must bo sent in not later than eight o'clock this evening.

The prisoner Tuhi, the confessed murderer of Miss Dobie, has been brought to Wellington and lodged in gaol, there to await his trial. From the New Zealand Times we learn that While on board the Hinemoa, Tuhi made a statement which throws additional light on his motives for taking the life of Miss Dobie. He said that after he had obtained the money from her he left her, and was going down an incline towards where he bad loft his horse, when Miss Dobie called out after him that she would tell the soldiers what he had don?. Afraid of being punished he thereupon returned and committed the crime of which he is now accused in order to avoid being taken up and punished. How he miscalculated his chance of escape, is, of course, already known. The boy Green who was received into the hospital last week suffering from a fractured skull has improved greatly, and is now nearly, if not quite out of danger. Some Akaroan have appropriated to themselves a novel habitation. It appears that they descended a chimney of Mr E. Bourand's house, and finding no more suitable refuge, establishel themselves under a table in the room. Iv this peculiar locality they have already constructed two large sheets of comb, and bid fair, if unmolested, to fill the space between the top of the table and the floor.

Ma Pnosruß Berland of this town met with a severe accident the other day while engaged in cutting bush over in " Hickery " when he managed to inflict a nasty wound on his right leg near the knee with the billhook he was using. Wo are happy to learn that he is progressing favorably under Dr Guthrie's care.