THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 47, 31 January 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Mulium iv parro. Sattjrday, January 31st, 1885. The Tarewera is haok from her first excursion to the West Coast Bounds A boy named Charles Becker was drowned on Tuesday morning while bathing at Sawyer's Creek, Greymouth. Segt. Dalzell, late of the A. C. Force has become proprietor of the Whakatane Hotel. The Union Sash and I)oor Company l ave lost considerably by bush fires at Tairua. The Committee of the Kew Zealand Industrial Exhibition propose to use calico instead of glass for the windows of the building. The Mail Steamer has been detained at Sydney and will not leave Auckland until Wednesday, therefore any home letters posted by Tuesday' s mail will be in time to catch her. Mr Charles Bright, the freethought lecturer, has abandoned the platform for the staff of the Sydney Telegraph. Advices from New Guinea states that the protectorate has been proclaimed at other points than those yisited by the Commodore. A number of Catholic subscribers to the "Marlborough Express" have boycotted it in consequence of remarks inade during the recent Eiyers Board election, and held by them to oppose their educational claims. This is believed to be the first ease of Catholic boycotting in the colony. The following handicaps were declared last night — T. J. C. Handicap, Snake9st; Revenge 8st 12ft>s; Eifleman 7st 12ibs; Marquis 7st 12H>s; Welcome Davy 7st 121bs ; Lazarus 7st lOIbs ; Bregalia 7st ; Lady Sarah 7st ; Revolver 8st 41bs ; and Clown 8st 41bs. Handicap Hurdles, Eevenge 11st 5ft>s Whalebone lOst 91bs ; Marquis lOst 7lbs ; Naughty Boy 9st 41bs.