GENERAL ITEMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 658, 3 November 1882, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

Baron Leasepe proposes to cut through the Isthmus of (Jraw, so us to shorten the voyage to China by four days. The Abbey Park Theatre in New York wan totally destroyed by fire one Lour .'■<efore Mm Langtry w.'ia to make her first appearance in America on the stage.

Glen wood, the residence of Mr R. H. Rhodes, at Papanui, was burnt down on Wednesday. It was insured for £6,1000.

The TCllesmero. Show was well attended, but the show of stock was hardly up to the average. The display of dairy produce, the /butter excepted, WPS not (says the Press) such as might have been expected in a district like Leeston. The cheese class, for instance, only produced six entries, and the bacon and ham classes were but very middling. The hams were badly cut and far too highly salted, in some instances burning away the meat; and the bacon was thin It seems bad policy on the part of the farmers of the Ellesmere district— one particularly adapted for the growth of bacon pigs—that they do not pay more attention to this branch of industry. The butter exhibits were excellent. In every instance it was well worked, of good color and excellent taste. The salt butter for export was also well corned, sweet, and not too salt.