Local and General.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 2, 6 December 1884, Page 2

Local and General.

Chief Judge McDonald, Begistrar Hammond, and Assessor Paraki te waru were passengers by Eobertson's Coaeh to Ohinemutu this morning. Bathers beware. A shark 9 feet long was caught by a young man named Fik - gerald, with a small schnapper hook. Cattle are now killed by electricity in London. J. I). MeKean, of Panmure, Auckland, has invented an "insect repelling scrim." The Staffa had a very rough passage up from Opotiki, on Thursday The trip takiag about 1 7 hours. A\ e have inspected a very neat buggy built by G. W. Atty, for H. S. Brabant, Esqr., whieh for style and workmanship will compai e favorably with any Auckland mak r. The U.S. Corvette Iroquois is expected to visit Auckland at an early date. The survey of the rnain-trunk railway is expected to be tinished about Christmas. Messrs IPorne and Ilarvey still make genuine Btrtie Saverna pork sausages. The most important item in our cable news to-dayisthat 12 Chinese men-of-war have been ordered to the island of k ormosa to take part in the operations against the French there. On and after Monday next, the price of the Littee Un will be |-d per copy, or 3/3 per quarter. Intending subscribers will obhge by sending in their names at once. Mr J . Maxwell' s window presents a gay appearance, being decorated with the good things for Christmas. A plague of locusts in Spain lately caused damage to the amount of twenty thousand pound.