THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 65, 20 February 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

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Friday Februaby 20th, 1885 , Wellington puhlicans are carrying the licensing elections. The Native Minister is to visit the maories at Whareroa tomorrow. The Brishand Newspaper Coy. intend to erect a seven-story printing office. In Britain £60,000 are spent annually on hread and £30,000,000 on sugar. The New South Wales Government | has purehased the residence of Mr. Thomas Cadell, at Kirribilli Point, for Admiral Tryon, at a cost of £20,000. Chantrey Harris again. This gentle- ! man when suminoned as a j uror in the j W aring Taylor case, asked the J udge i to excuse him, as he had been com■muning with the spirits, and had i learnt where all the money had gone, I The Judge said he could not excuse | him on these grounds. | It is rumoured that a society exists I in Westmoreland Couuty, l ennesylyania, which is responsible for the recent dynamite explosions in Bngland. Our Contemporary'szeal in initiating the proposed banquet to the great Julius, is in excess we think of the little common sense his editorial lahours has left him, had he expended a few shillings on wiring to Auckland he might have diseovered that instead of collecting Minisfers the Hinemoa was collecting curios for the W ellington Museum. The banquet to Sir Julius Yogel and Hon Ballance came off last night at Menzies Hotel, and was an unqualified success. (The office of our contemporary was beseiged with persons wanting tickets, andnumberswere unable to obtain them.) The chair was taken by the Marquis, and the vicechair by Baron Fritz. After the usual toasts had been responded to.the chairman proposed the health of Sir Julius

who in responding said tliat never in the wliole course of his public career had he met such a noble, intelligent, and enterprising set of men, and with such splendid material Tauranga was bound soon to take its place as one, if not tbe principal town in tbe colony. Host Menzies simplv suppassed himself.