Local and General.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 466, 11 January 1881, Page 2

Local and General.

Wu observe that a Mr J. Robertson Ims taken the premises formerly occupied by Mr T. 13. Chad wick, chemist, and purpoßes there practising the art and mystery of a watch and clock maker. We have little doubt that if Mr llobertson succeeds in gaining the confidence of the Peninsula public, lie will have no cause to regret having located himself in Akaroa.

The result of the poll for three members of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board was published in our last issue. The following is the manner in which the votes were distributed among the three pollingplaces—Duvauchelle's Bay—Chappell 10, Hunt 24, McDonald 35 ; total G9. Wainui —Chappell 15, Hunt 10, McDonald 46 ; total 71. Akaroa—Chappell 44, Hunt 9, McDonald 25 ; total 78. It will be observed that the highest number of votes was recorded in Akaroa, and the smallest number in Duvauchelle's Bay.

This is what tho N. O. Times (Oamani) says about the inquest recently held in Lawronce on the death of Charles Howard. and the verdict given by the jury thereon

—'' In the Tuapeka district the other da} - a man died in convulsions between nine and ten o'clock in the morning. At six o'clock the previous evening lie lad gone to bed in a state of intoxication, and lie was in the habit of getting drunk on liquor sold at an up-country township hotel. Yet at on inquest held in regard to the manner of the man's death an intelligent find discriminating jury returned a verdict of ' Died l»y the visitation of God, from natural causes.' In the face of all the facts this verdict is surely neither more or less than a revolting piece of blasphemy." So it is 1 The erstwhile immigration agent and public lecturer, Captain William Jackson Barry, is, according to a glowir:g announcement in a Dunedin paper, " once more to the front in his old line of business." In other words he has resumed the occupation of a butcher. We clip the follow ; ng from the '-Shreatls and Patches " contributed by " Stylus " to the Slur of Saturday evening last:—That bar-boiled Akaroa watchmaker who has been figuring , so meanly in the Courts lately, if a man without money, is certainly not without price. Plis price was a well-to-do widow, but bis charges of late have been too excessive. The last one he made has just been disposed of in the Supreme Court, where he charged a couple of women with having committed an assault upon him. Charlotte, I admire your pluck. You have shown what a powerful influence for good a strong-minded woman with a bowl of kot water can exercise over

certain insects in human form