The Pioneers of Akaroa.— Just thirty seven years ago, this sixteenth day of August, 1877, says the "Akaroa Mail, the nucleus of the town of Akaroa was formed, by the pitching of a tent, as near as possible on the spot where stands the office of this journal. The French colonists landed from the ship Count de Paris, on the beach, at the foot of what is now Jollio street, but what waa then a dense bush, on the evening of August 16, 1840, heartily glad to find themselves after a six months' voyage, onco moro on terra flrnta. The first boat from the ship that touched the beach of Akaroa was steered by our fellow towntmun, Mr F. Lolievre, who was at that time a •üb-oflloer on board (he Count do Pnrif. Death, mid remorul tinco t hat (Into, hnvo thinno 1 the ranks of those who made (his "the homo of their adoptions" of (he original coloitiiti there vet still resident nmongib us Mr nnd Mrs do Mnlmancho, foil"-., Mr and Mr* Guindon, Mr and Mrs Wu«okerle, Mr and Mrs Libeau, jnnr., Mcur* Bout-mud, T-ibonu, ionr., Uoi'imr.l, Jiroit m»jor, Lo Valliant, Darid, Mn Ditoly, nnd Mis Li'lioYie, icnr.
