THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 70, 26 February 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multum in parvo. Thuhsday Tebexiaby 26th, 1885 TheNew Zealand Post Office Department have called for tenders for a steam mail service between this colony and Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti. The service is to commeneed on the first of June, and the steamer is to sail first from Dunedin or Port Chalmers, calling' at the different ports on the way up. On returning, the stearaer will come to Auckland, and then down the coast. Tenders must be in by the 31st of March next.

Another attempted Bank robbery in Australia. Carlton Club, Ohinemutu,, is doing a big buisness. Mr W. Kelly has a built brewery about two miles from Eotorua township. The s.s. Katikati arrived from Maketu at 6 o'clock this morning. G old has been found at Tokomarau, on the Whanganui Kiver. Sir John Coode leaves England for Australia in three weeks. There are to be atheletic sports at Thames on St. Patriks day. Botany of New Zealand at the Mutual Improvemmt Association tonight. Sir F. 1ST. Broome, Governor of W est A ustralia, 'leaves that colony on 6th May. It is proposed to attach shorthand writers to the Supreme Courts of Kew Zealand. Tenders will shortly be called for the erection of exhibition buildings at "Wellington. A harbour dredge for Melbourne, and a steamer for Adelaide, have just been launched in England. The Official Assignee is instituting proceedings against James Clarke, of Te Aroha, for fraudulent bankruptcy. Auckland tram-cars now carry more passengers than those of Christchurch, and the cost of carrying them is less in Auckland than in any other part of this colony. The Native Lands Court that is now being held at Maketu is likely to last until the end of April next. There is not very many natives present, but more are expected, and what few are there have very little money. In his speeh at a banquet at Hokitika, the Premier, referring to Samoa matters, said that he had shortly to meet at Auckland a deputation of Sarnoan chiefs praying for annexation to Kew Zealand.