THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 27, 8 January 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multuvn in parvo. ~ Thtjbsday, Jaxuaey 8 th, 1885.

The s.s. Katikati will leave for Katikati tomorrow at 1 1 a.ni. ■ Ckarge against Prof essor Swallow reduced to one of common assault. A poll for the loan for the Napier harbour improvements takes place there on the 20th inst.

Miss Allely has been appointed assistant teacher at the District School in place of Mr Black. Sir Anthony Musgrove, Governor of Queensland ismentionedas a probable successor to Lord Augustus Loftus as Governor of New South "Wales. We are informed that Mr and Mrs G. B. Howard formerly of the Star Hotel intend returning to this district at an early date. A post-office is to be opened at the Auckland Sugar Company's works Duck Creek. The name Chelsa has been conferred on the new Postal District. Tenders are invited by the Governnaent for printing and binding 2,000 copies of Sir George Grey's collectiou of Maori songs and legends in Maori and Euglish. In consequence of a disagreement over the floating of the last N. S. W. loan, the Government account has boen withdrawn f'rom the Bank of New South Wales and distributed among the nine associated banks., James Grant, a resident of Waimate, Otago, had an alarming experience on Saturday, and escaped unhurt, He fell off a railway train near Blueskin (Jjiffs while it was going atfnll speed, bnt was only bruised and shaken. Any gentleman wishing to become a mernber of the Tauranga Mutual Improvement Assoeiation should put in an appearance at the Presbyterian Church, as the first meeting of its second year takes place there this evening. J ohn Laing, chief cook of the steamer Arawa, was on Saturday afternoon found in an insensible condition inthe forehold oi tLat vessel at Wellington. On examination it was found that he had sustained severe injuries to his head, apparently from a fall. No one on board appears to know how the man met with the injuries.