The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 640, 1 September 1882, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

Tub LrrrLH Akaloa Hotel — This hotel was insured, t.io South British being the sufferers to the amount of £300 by the lire. Tim amount on the building itself was £200, and on the stock and furniture £100.

WAKCKKHL.ii'ri ITo'i'KL. —Our readers arc iiifonncd by advertisement elsewhere, that Mr Baylcy Ims been granted a temporary for the sale of liquors for Mr Waockelie's house, at the corner of Lavaud Btreot.

It.M. Count.—At the E.M. Court yesterday, I). 'Stewart, who had been incarcerated for some twenty-four hours, was brought <up charged with being drunk and disorderly, and dismissed with a caution, in consideration of his previous detention.

Lyttkltun L-Lyijbou Bgakd.—Tlu Legislative Omncil, before μ-isaing the Lyttollon liar 1 or Board Act, gnuitod the privilege of elaotintf n member on tho Lyttelton Harbor Board to the County of Akaroa.

Nariiow i'lxcAPi-:. —Master T. Chappell, whilst driving his father's bullock team yesterday, hid n narrow escape. He fell from the front of the driy, and two wheels pasted over Vis leg, and aatonishing to relate, did not lireak it, though, of course, it in severely bruised. 'I , ln , re were scvern l hundred-weights of wire in the dray at the time.

Thb Boitouuii Council and the f/uics. —This (.'ounc'il at their meeting on Wednesday night behaved in the sumo calm manner regarding the tires as tin , } , have hithorto done. In spite, of knowing that tlu.-rii is a geiii-'iid fooling of uneasiness which the appointment of a night-waU-h----■tnan mi,:jlit al'ny, they took no steps whatever. There- was not fi word of sympathy spoken with regard to th-e sufferers, not a syllable reppecting I Its necessity of seeing there were no more conflagrations. Half an hour was spent in putting off all the business before the Council, and then the} , adjourned. An opportunity has been lost by the .Council of showing that they sympathise with, and are anxious to preserve, the. lives and property of their fellow burgesses which will not speedily occur again. The Mayor said on Wednesday night, ho did not think it clo.-siroii.-3 to offer a reward from the. Cmnuil's funds for tlio discovery of the ince*n liary. We should think not ; Hint w«uld be absurd indeed when there is a .standing reward of .£SOO for tin detection of all such off en lers. That was not what wa-i w.intod. What w.is required was to try and restore public c.iiiii leiui'j and prevent future, mishaps, and-at the saiwo time show a proper pytnpathy for tho misfortunes of others. A few kindly words from the Mayor, and tho appointment of proper watchmen for a week or so, in order that frightened women and chiidien might go to sleep with the knowledge) that some one was v/atching to prevent incendiarism, would have amply sufiiced. Had wo not known that the members of the Council are trying in their way to do good to the burgesses, v/e should have said far more. Wβ are sure, however, that our kindly Mayor and his r ;olle;/gues are only so staggered by the unwonted calamity cs to bo hardly equal to tho emergency.

MiamNGS —-Our readers arc reminded ' that meetings of the Fa-mers' Cliil) and ' Akaroa and Wainui Itond Board, take place (it the, Mimd Board Office. Head of the Buy, to morion ; the form'rat 11 a.m. and the latter at 3 p.m. PAHLrAMKNTAUY.—The House has now really set to work and great progress is being- made. The Local Government bills which include the Road Bourds, Coontie-s Amendment, Rating, an<l Roads and Bridges construction acts, have all pss-ed their second readings. AIvAROA INDUSTRIAL AND HORTICULTURAL Association.—The newly elected committee of this so. it ty will meet at the Schoolroom on i'uosduy evening next, at 7.;)0 to undertake'the important duty of revising the |>iiz" schedule. A largo attendance of coinniitteeuien is hoped and expected. Outsidk Nrws—Barlow, Winiata's capturor, was.-!,u! at by M>mo u- % iti ;a;d had a narrow escape. Sarah Jolmstone, who wns committed for trial for coucealinent of birth at Cambridge recently, bill releised on hail, died at Auckland on Monday, being married on her death-bed to the man Cleaver, with whom she had hern acquainted at Cambridge. Before the burial of the body to-day a postmortem examination was held, as the doctors were puzzled by the symptoms. It is rumoured that the examination revealed the presence of arsenic in the stomach. She had arrived in Auckland on Monday week to bo married to Cleaver, and stayed at Mrs Butter's, a friend of (jii!aver's mother, as three clay's residence \s required before tie marriage could bo solemnized. In the middle of he night Mrs Butler, in whose bed Miss Johnston slept, was awakened by her getting up to vomit. Dr Richardson was subsequently sent for, and, as the girl got worse daily, called in Doctors Walker and Purchase, but she succumbed on Monday. Sho never stated she had taken anything, and readily took every medicine given to her