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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 473, 4 February 1881, Page 2

Tiik Akaroa Fohool -Committee announces that they require the services of a pupil teacher, boy or girl. Candidates must havo passed the fifth standard. Applications will be received up to Tuesday next, when a meeting of o.immutco will bo held.

CoN'slDKitAiu.K interest is being taken in Nelson in the. developeut oi gold-bear-ing reefy. The Mount Arthur reefs fire at trading mucl'i attention, and a prospecting association ha* lieen formed fur the pur pose- of proving the lines of ihe supposed reefs at W.mufanaku, and between there iv id Mount Arthur.

Boards of Reviewers under the Property Assessment Act will be held at Akaroa on the Bth, 9th and lOib of February next, and at the Ellesmere Anns, Lake Ellesmere; on the 11 th 'of the same month. The Reviewers for the District are A, C. Knight, W. B. Tosswiil, and T. If. Potrai hlsqs. Particulars appear in our advertising columns.

London telegrams state that the Antwerp wool-sales opened with an average decline all round of 5 per cent.

It is not often that a bankrupt gets a farewell address from his generous creditors, says a nothern organ. We can vouch for the correctness of the following memorandum attached to a debtor's schedule, and Bigned by the Chairman of the final meeting of creditors : " We are unanimous in tbe opinion, that the debtor is a rogue, but tb.it it would cost too much money to prosecute him."

A Sydney telegram of January 22nd states that a Mr Wall, a fanner living at Lower llawke-bnry, while out in a boat sailing with two of his daughters, was caught in a squall and upset, and all were drowned. The bodies were afterwards found, the father and tbe youngest daughter being elapsed together.

Says the Lyttelton Times :—ln a civil case, heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, there was one of those dry-as-dust legal arguments which will occasionally crop up. One of the public who appeared to be anxious to enjoy himself, made an enquiry from one of the professionals present as to the meaning of the argument. The reply ho received was this:—" He says that tho concatenated conglomeration of congruities completely corresponds with the coincidences, as compared with the nullum boiuim quasi interregnum (see Dolprum, C. L., vol. xxxxi p. 9999), and if not, why not?" etc This is certainly as i; cleir as mud."