THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 50, 4 February 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multnm in parvo. WeDNES-DAY, FEBPUAEY4th, 1885 The issue of the Little FTn will be suspended tomorrow, but will appear as usual on Fridav evening. , Twenty-one thousand houses were built m London last year.

Herr Krupp's works at Essen use 1 500 tons of coal- daily. All the cargo recoverable from the wreck of the Lashingham has now been secured. A hundred draught horses were taken by the Hauroto on W ednesday from Dunedin to Sydney. The Union prayer Meeting is to be held at the Wesleyan Church at half past seven this evening. The Government Insurance Board have resolved to exclude the press from their meetings. The Iving of Honolulu has £10,000 a year, theQueen £5,300, andtheheir presumptive a similar allowanee. It is caloulated that in India alone there are over 100,000 lepers, with very jfew asylums where they can find any I refuge . The Union Sash and Door Oompany values its property, ineluding vessels, mills, bushes, etc., at £120,000, while the present stock is valued at £109,000. The Tauranga Cheese, Baeon, and Butter Company shipped abt>ut 6 tons of cheese per Wellingu n, last evening, consigned to England. Advance Tauranga. English newspapers sent to Eussia which contain anything caloulated to give offence to Eussians or to bo seen by English readers, are carefully "smudged" over by official ixik. London papers report a great fall in the price of wild beasts. Tigers which a short time ago would have cost you £200, can now be had for £80, and a two-horned rhinoceros costs only about £100. . J y Rough on Auckland 'cyclists.— The E . Z. Cyclists' Alliance ten mile chainpionship race should, according to the ruh, be run in Auckland ' but on the ground that "none of the best riders" reside there, the Dunedin folks propese to have the match run there at the amateur atheletic meeting in March next.