THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 9, 15 December 1884, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multuin in jparvo. MOM)AYEPegembe:r 15th, l884Mr H. W. Brabant P. M. returned yesterday from Ohinemutu. The lace industry in Britain employs 9,000 men and 41,000 women. Eeeent railway aecidents in Yictoria have cost the G-overnnient £200,000. Over seven million sterling are invested in co-operative societies in

England. In England a short time ago boy of eleyen killed himself because his teaclier refused to allow him to go bird nesting. We understand that Dr T. H. Lewis will leave Ohinemutu at the end of the year, his engageme t, with the G-overn-meat ceasing 011 the 01st Inst. The s.s. Omapere, brought 50 sheep for Mr Darley, 25 tons Telegraph material, and 35 tons of general cargo. 'Queenin's Patent Nightsoil manure' is the latest emanation of Auckland inventive genius. An a gitation against Chinese labour by the shipping companies has sprung up in Sydney. The fire insurance companies of Sweden offer a reward of £500 for the most practical deviee to arest sparks and cinders from locomotive and steamboat stacks. W e see by our exchanges that one of our old friends, of the 1st Waikatos (Mr T. J. Bradley,) writing in a Sydney paper, gives great kudos to a writer in the Auckland Obserrer, YTemo the author of "Incidents in the life of a Journalist".) The said "Nemo" in mentioning the numberof souls brought to this coumry, (1,100) will recall to many a matron here, the scene in Hobson Bay when they were battoned down while the Yictorian authorities were inspecting the good ship Swiftsure, b fore leaving fhat port for Auckland.