THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 60, 16 February 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multuni in parvo. Monday Febrtjary 16th, 1885 Tomorrow is shrove Tuesday. The late General Gordon was referred to at Holy Trinity and St Peter's Churches, yesterday. A woman named Bridget Eane has just been convicted for the 121st time of drunkenness at Dunedin. I he Hon. Mr Ballance and Mrs Ballance left for the 11 ot Lake, yester- | day morning. 1 The annual general meeting of the ' members of the Auckland Institute | will be held at the Museum Buildings | to-day. It is stated that 600 men of the Canadian Militia are going to England to do garrison duty in place of the | troops being despatched to Egypt. Mr Bright has assumed the proprietership of the Commercial Hotel, and as he is universally liked and rei spected there, is no doubt but that ho wili receiye a i'air share of patronage... ! Among Austrahan experts last year | sheepskins and furs form the very large ifein of £483,826, of which it is to be ; remarked Kew Zealand exported nearly | one-half. j Mr Macartbur, M.H.B. for Mana- ; watu, addressing bis constituents ' recently, said he thoughtno more local g .vernment machmery was required I what was wanted was money for roads i and bridges. So say we. Ninety-three cases of kauri gum arrived here per cutter Yietoria yesterday, for transhipment to Auckland, en route to England, being shipped by Mr Harley, of Katikati. Advance Katikati. ' Seventeen boxes of fruit arrived per cutter Muriel for transhipment to Auckland. Owing to the s.s. Katikati blocking up the entrance to tbe Uretara river, the fruit had to be carted to the Kereatukahia, a distance of ahout 3 or 4 miles.