THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 66, 21 February 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multuin in parvo. Saturday Febrttaky 21st, 1885 The French Senate bas passed a bill abolishing public execution. The R. M. at Port Chalmers has de - cided that meat-freezing on Sunday is a woik of necessity. Captain Edie, of the Waihora, has been appointed harbour-master at the Bluff , out of 18 applications. Hira Te Popo was returned unopposed, as A ssessor for the Licensing District of Waioeka. An Agricultural Show was held a.t ! Opotiki yesterday. Tauranga could not raise one this year. Sports aie to be held 011 March 17th at Opotiki, in connection with the Druids Lodge there. As this is their first attempt at public sports we wish them every success. The Hon Mr Ballance returned to this town about. six o'clock last night and received several deputations at Menzies Hotel. He has been at Whareroa to-day. Captain Phelan, the dynamiter, one of O'Donnovan Possa's gang, who was stabbed in Eossa's ofiice, is slowly recovering. Mrs Phelan says that as soon as he has sufficiently reeovered, he will make a statement to the public | which will strike terror into the breasts of Rossa and his contituents. We notice aparin last Wednesday's Star, which reading between the lines evinces a pausity of wit, if not the old feeling of jealousy anent our harbour, It reads thusly : At Tauranga Mr Ballance promised to try and get £1000 from Government to aid in hedging the narrows. As this is too palpable to be screened by the usual excuse of "printers error," all we can sayin the matter is this, that if the narrows were Jiedged , the loss of a depot to shoot Auckland's bankrupt saies and shoddy goods, might prove an injury to that city.