Peninsula News.
TriK Toloey Family Entertainment.— " Lukejthe Li'-murer "will be performed on Tuesday, September 12th. Omitted.—A letter oh Local Govennent and other inteiesting matter is unavoidably omitted. Steamer from South.—The Wanaka left Port Chalmers at JL3O p.m. yesterday, and should arrive here about three o'clock this morning, Outside News.—The International football mutch was won by the Otago team by no less than five goals and three tries! —Parliament will probably be prorogued some d<iy next week. Cricket.—There is to be an endeavor to establish an Akaroa Crickot Club this year. The ineethg is advertised for Tuesday, September sth. We wish the movement every success, and hope there will be a large attendance. Tnic Library.—A number of the old books, in uiy ol" them works ofgro.it value, that have beeu withdraw.) fioii the library for.some time pist ihecaine .llri binding w.is worn out, have o'eeu rebound and are again being issued. • Faumicrs Club.—At the meeting of this Club on Saturday, the cenifi.-ites ant medals won at theCinisti-liur.il Exhibition will be distributed. Tii'i go d medal cuitifi ate awarded to the Club as a whole, h to be seen in MrGarvvood's window. It is a lithograph of .Messrs Suids and .VL-Djuijail, of Melbourne, and is I'airiy executed. Thedesign is a tolerable O'ie. FntE at Little Akai.oa.—The Littie Akaloa hotjl was burnt down on Fiiday night Inst. It is in the hands of DdVeaux and Co., the trustees in bankruptcy, who have had a bailiff in popsossion for tho la-it sit weeks. Tiie bailiff whose name is Alfred Roberta states that h« left the hotel at 'J p.m. on the night in question, and that everything was then all light. He went to the schoolhouse about 300 yds distant, where a dance was going on, and about twenty minutes past ten he heard an alarm of fire. Ho ran to the hotel and " found the back part of the premises on fire. Seeing it had such a firm hold tint it was impossible to save the building, he tried to get all out that he could an i managed to get out a few blankets, an-1 otlier thing.-). Tho house is supposed to be tho property of Mr Bruges, of Thomas and Bruges, Christohurch. It is , not known whether the place was insured oi , how the lire originated, but a fanner named Bailey says that on the night tlu firo occurred he was on a road at the back of the premises and saw a dense smoke coming out of the kitchen chimney and a glare of fire through the kitchen window, and remarked to some one that the bailiff must have a good fire on. Tho neighbour.-! rendered every possible assistance and the general belief appears to be that the firo must have origin ited through'the kitchen chimney which was known to be defective. It is said the space betwpan the weather boards and lining was filled with sawdust .so a spark might have smouldered jliere for days. Okain's Bay Road Board—An ordinary m el ing of the Okain's Road Board \\\>.h held at tho Board's Office on Sitiuday, August 5. Present—Messrs J. E. Tbaeker, (in the chair) W. Thacker, and J. B. Barker. The .minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was read—From Messrs Williams and Deacon, enclosing receipt ; and from Mill. Piper, enclosing account, ;£lO, for crane for Little Akaloti jetty. This account was passed for payment, tho Clerk being instructed to settle it as soon as the jetty dues, bald by Mr Benrirt, were hindod in. Mr James waited on the Board, asking them to show him a road on the Little Biy- Point. The Board referred him to the Board's map, but could give him no further assistance. Mr Callaglian waited on the Board and handed in a letter in aruwer to the one received by him above referred to, and stating that one of the roada he was accused oi obstructing did not exist. Mr Thacker here remarked that as he was personally interested in the matter ho would vacate the chair, and doing so left the Board without a quoium. the meeting being adjourned pro (em. A discussion took place between Messrs Thacker and Callagljan, at tho end of which the Chairman resumed his seat, and the following accounts wore passed for payment :—-Clerk's nalnry for half ye-ir £10, Library Committee, rent of office, ;Ail 5:3, Mr Ware on account bridge, Oknin's?, iilO, T. Mclutosh, on account contract, Little Akaloa, £10. The Board adjourned till September 30.
Football.—A game was played on Saturday afternoon betweeen the following sides—A. Munro (captain), J. Lolievre, 0. Wiitkins, A. Lelievre, W. Penlington, W. Rodrigues, Q-. Brown, Heatlicote, versus P. E. Granger (captain), W. Watkins, L. Watkina, F. Scott, J. McGregor, W. Parsons, and A. Tosswil!. The game was played in four spells of 20 minutes Giicli. The play thronghout was better form than that of previous games, the passing of some of the players being very pretty. Wo would recommend the members of the Banks Peninsula Football Club to practise this feature of the game, alao drop and place kicking. The game ended in a draw, both sides obtaining a goal and five tries. W. Watkins, L. VVutkins, and A. Tosswiil played well for one side, ay did A. Munro, J. L'jlievre, and 0. Watkins for the other. We notice that the forwards are still very backward in forming scrimmages, each one seeming anxious to get hold of the ball to distinguish (or extinguish) himself. A game will be played next Saturday at the usual pi see and time, as the season is now closing, we hope to see a good muster. Little Akaloa. — Our correspondent writes :—lt may interest our readers in general, and our cricketing friends in particular, to know that last year a cricket club was formed in this Bay. Success well worthy of maiden efforts attended the club last season, but the members desired during the coming-season to make for themselves a name second to none on the Peninsula, but as this - cannot l>e a fait accompli without proper, implements, ami as such implements are not to bo had without money, they decided to give a public entertainment, the proceeds to be devoted to ihe funds.of the club. After due consideration, it was resolved that the said entertainment should consist of a concert, a negro olio, the whole to conclude with a •' Nigur " Extravaganza, called "Professor Gelnui.lt, tht, Barber." Tiie programme, with the addition of a dance. was duly carried out,, and by-the-bye during the evening the ' company had the questionable excitement of an event not provided for to wit, the burning of the '' Little Akaloa Hotel," but of this more anon. On the evening of the 25th a numerous audience assembled in the school-ioom. The concert, which consisted of songs, duets, readings, eto., was carried out in a manner which reflected great credit on the performers and the conductor, Mr Cox. The best vocal efforts of the evening were '' Isle of Beauty," winch Mrs Barker, rendered with much feeling, and "Take back the heart," which, less some nervousness on the paitof the singer, Mrs J. Mclntosh, gave great pleasure. Mrs A. 11. Mclntosh sang with exceptionally good taste and feeling Tin ley's Ballad, "Kite O'Shaue." Indeed no song of the evening created a more favor.ible impression. A lady visitor gave the audience the benefit of her fine voije in two solos. On her rendering of the first of these, '• When other Lips," ws congratulate Miss S:iadbol : on the purity of her voice, and her power as a pianoforte player. Mrs A. Waghorn affordi-d much pleasure by her very tasteful ■rendering ol" the old favorite, "Ben Bolt." A pianoforte duet by tw >' of the c'Vniuctor's pupils wis rendered with precision an! taste. Sundry and divers o" the sterner sex distinguished themselves as singers of comic and sentimental songs, but as we wish to spare their ••lushes, we abst.iin from publishing tlieir names; merely rein irking that the audience were moved nearly to tears by the f.ite of '• MoSorley's Twins," tint they rejoiced in the fact that the, exercise of paternal powers had in their cases been somewhat different from that of tho youth who relate I " The Way my Father raised me," and iin d!y, they could not help concluding that when it w.is asserted that " We are a Merry Famiiy, we are, we are, we are," the song and chorus were as good as need be for such a j>illy song. Mr Cox gave a reading and two songH. The first part concluded w'th a capital rendering of "The Gipsy's Warning," in character. The "'black-eyed stranger," a }oung gentleman of local fame, was much admired for Jiis '• get up," and tho " gipsy " sang with a sweetness and pathos very unusual among those who " live in tents," but not so little to be expected from the talented iady who sang. It is neudie.se to particularise the various portions of the negro performance: suffiie it to" say that the tout ensemble was excellent. Black faces, violin, bones, tambourine, and triangle were all there, while tunsiy j>ke 8 and songs completed the enjoyment of the audience. Before .concluding, lot us recommend to the notice of those who dolight in oddities an idea evolved from the brain of one of our youths—the manufacture of a fildio from an empty oil tin. Use the body of the tin for the body of the fiddle, fasten to one end a handle with pins in it, stick up a bridge, stretch as many strings as you can, regardless of siz'.», position, pitch, or tone, then go to work with either the h airy or the wooden side of the bow, and you will produce effects, to say the least- of them,, that will not scon be forgotten ; and,..reinomber, the more vigorously you scrape the greater will be the sound produced. Mr E. Turner as the barker, though willing enough to oblige his customers, did not seem particularly to take to the idea of ono of his "constituents" who presented- a nice savage-looking bull-terrier to net as bis locum tcaeas. judging by signs and sounds, the dog did not care much about the near proximity of the brush, and uttered an ominous growl when he got a good patch of lather properly placed upon his elegant '.Trooim nose. The d.mcc was an enjoyable as usual. About 10.15 p.m. dense mass -s of smoke issuing from the back of the hotel announced that something unusual was taking place there. A rush of men and children was made from the schoolroo.ii, but it was boon evident that as usual in old wooden buildings with iron roofs, no efforts could by any possibility save the. buiidi'ig. It is impossible to say i how the fire originated, one'i upressi.Q»' v : atid it seems to us the most feasible, is that the. lire began in au old double chimney, some parts of which could be plainly seen through as the llamos progresssd. Moreover, for a long time after the fire was discovered, nothing , issued from one wide of this chi'iiney out dense nvisees of black ■smoke. This part of the chimney, might have been smouldering for some, time, and at length have communicated with the rafters over the kitchen ceiling. This done, nothing could savo the remaining portion of til-; building, nearly the whole being very old and dry. In a short time nothing ri:m.lined standing but two chimneys, ami these were eventually pushed over to avoid danger as both wero cracked and likely to fall.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 639, 29 August 1882, Page 2
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