Peninsula News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 629, 25 July 1882, Page 2

Peninsula News.

The Land bill. —After a long debale the Linda Bill passed the second reading jon the voices, at 1.20 a.m. on Saturday morning. The LnviiE Eiver line.—Oor- readers will be glad to see by the traffic manager's advertisement, that return single iare tickets will be available from Saturday lo Tuesday aa suggested by us. Local Governmbst.—We have received a most interesting letier i'lOtn Mr James 1 Wilson on the boojecl of local government [ Want of space prevents us f> om inserting it to-day but it will rppear in nest issue. Sjmebse'C Ho'ffic, BtSAD of 'i'flE Bay.— i Tne sale of Mv Biook's I'a n<l ive, eic. at j the Somerset bad io bo a(fjoc)>ried, owing lo Uie eueme iocleruency of the weather. As will oe seen by auverli^ement, it, will be resiiaieu on S:itU'(iay next. Lost CfIEQOE. —A man lost a cheque for n considerable amount yealerdny, dropping it out of his pocket. Luckily it fell info Mr 0 Reilly's bands who lost no lime ,in letting it be known it was in his possession. Tati Li'JV-iB Akaloa Botsl.—Thi* Hotel is now closed, and we see by the Cnmlchmrh papers that ihe la'e landlord, Mr Thomas Connon, has filed his aciieuule in Cu-isichuich. It ie a great piiy ihafc fhe hotel ib closed, for it was a gieat convenience io excursionists and Uaveilers. LaKIS EL..£SMEfIiS DRAINAGE. —The Rev. H. S. Bradley and Me Joolin sailed for Wellington on ThnvMJay last io wge upon the Government tne new scheme foe the <l»-!iining of Lake Ellesiuere. One wisdes these spirited gentlemen who ere beanng the whole expense of ilie exciK&ion themselves, a vwy pleasant flip and a buccessful issue to their inleisiew wuh ihe Minister fov Public Woiks, Cucjocb EsTSßj'AisMGvr.—An enie'laii'ment Jα aiu of Si. Peier's Chuich will shouly be given in ihe OaUfeUowa' Hall* Adraaia has been selecied woich should be a great ai.i<aciton lieve. as ie consists of a seiies of scenes in fhe fit'e of a dawyman. The piece has been well cast and will doubtless aii''act a good house, not only from me ooject being good, but because it is of inittnsic ineih. The great dea-lh of amusements here this winier has rendered tne place very dull, and we expect io see a laige gaihe.iog now that something woiih seeing is promised. As usual, Mi , Siocker is taking all the most troublesome part of the work. General Items.—The cilcket match Australians v Yorkshire at Bradford wa a won by the former by 47 runs. Th c U.S.S. Oo's new steamer Wairarapa sailed from the Clyde on July 18th. Captai Kitchener is dead. The chief of th police at Dublin has resigned. Thee Kaipara canning company have sold 8000 cans of preserved mullet. Win. Walker Lloyd, formerly in the English army, and who has jusc served a term of imprisonment, was sent to the Asylum. His hallucination was the belief that ho was going to take the command at Alexandria, and ettle the Egyptian difficulty.

TjT r . v n,E liven.—An enlerlainiuentinaitl of the Cnu-ch at Little River will be held in the new Schoolroom on Friday next. Meetings.—The mee<'igs of the Conn y Council, and Akaroa and Wai n ui Eosv'd Board, take place at Dijrauchellb'a Bay on Saturday nest. Charitable,—Aβ will be been by advertisement, a meef>og is called atlb's office for 10-mo'iow evenio , * by M^ , Stacker, in order <bat an en ted am went may be held in niri of the family of Mr Tolley. Mr Toi'ey, as many of oor readers a>e aware, b'»s long been ineponcitated from work through illness, and we understand Hint the funds fo'tne-ly vailed have been expended, and his family pod himself are in urgent need of mo'e. We Are bo re we need e>\y no more fo have our office inconveniently crowded on Wednesday night. j Mr John Bkecher.— This old Ak.i>oa ' re«ident baa taken (he Central Hotel in Ashburton and on Wednesday last he gave a dinner 1o celebrate his taking charge of the business. Many of the leading Aehburlonisfs were present and Mr Beecher's health was drunk with enthusiasm. To quote the conclusion of the Press report on the subject :—" Other toasts followed and some capital songs were rendered at. intervals, the guests having thoroughly' enjoyed themselves, and become deeply impressed with the genial hospitality of their worthy host and future fellow townsman. Since Mr Beecher has had possession he has thoroughly renovated the hotel, making many improvements ior the convenience and comfort of the public, and the establishment can now lay well merifed claim to being, what Mr Beecher intends it to be, a first class family and commercial holel. Teib San Frisco Matt..—This mail arrived, per Cif y of New York, at 6 p.m. on Sunday, at Auckland. The followfog a?e a few of the items of news brought by her.: -The Duke of Edinburgh narrowly escaped drowning at Bayonne, F<ance, on the 29th, while w<l h a fishing pa-'iy. He was carried under at first, and after half nn hour's struggling reached the shore. A man supposed to have driven the car containing the Cavendish-Burke assassins was arrested at Cork. Chae. W. Goitoau. Garfield's assassin, paid the penally of his crime in the gaol yard at I Washington on Friday, the 30th ult. The drop fell precisely at 12 40. His death was apparently painless, and he dropped shouting, " Glory, g'oiy, glory. ,. King Kalaka, of Honolulu, has ordered two thrones to be constructed at Boston. They show great splendour as far as gold leaf and satin brocade can go. No fewer than seventy five people were poisoned, but not fatally, by cheese manufactured by a man in Michigan. The microscope showed the cheese was full of unrecognised parasites. Count de Lesseps, the Panama and Suez canal contractor, and now in his seventy-seventh year; was presented on June the sth with his tenth child. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have returned fro.n the miracle working springs of Leudres. The journey ' was made in the hope that Our Lady of j the famous shrine would relieve the ; dreadful affliction of blindness from : their infant son and heir.