THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 45, 28 January 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multum in parvo. Wednesday, January 28th, 1885 As tomorrow is a public Holiday there will be no issue of the Little Un. Presbyterian Choir Practice at 7 30 this evening. A very handsome shell cross, the work of a Tauranga Lady, is now on view at our office. One hundred million lables are required annually for the famous Burton bottled beer. There are about 300,000 idol temples in China, wThieh are estimated to have cost £200,000,000. The s.s. Te An.au arrived at Auckland yesteiday morning, with the English mail, via Brindisi. The present strength of Ireemasonry thronghout the world is placed at 138,065 Lodges, with 14,160,543 nrembers. The usual weekly meeting of the Mutual Iniprovement Association will take place in the Presbyterian C.hurch, tomorrow evening. The A nnual Meeting of the Tauranga Working Men's Club is to be held on Priday night, as per advt. We beg to remind intending excurtionists that the s.s. Katikati leaves for Plate Island at 12 o'clock to-night. Por further particulars see advt. The newly elected Sehool Committee met on Monday evening, when Mr E. W rigley was appointed Chairman, and Mr 0. A. Clarke Secretary, for the ensuing year. Johann Strauss received a sensible present on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his debut. The Municipality of Vienna declared him free from local lates for the rest of his life. Dicken's novels, with the illustrations by Phiz, niay now be bought in London at one penny apiece. They are being hawked about the streets in wheelbarrow and truckfuls by the eoster-journal class.