THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 73, 2 March 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

Multum in parvo. Monday March 2nd, 1885 The London Eire Brigade costs over £100,000 a year. In some provinces of Brazil iron ore is used in large quantities as huilding stone, so ahundant and ready to hand is it. There are 55,000 Germans in South Australia, and only Lutheran Church accommodation for 10,000. A new species of horse with erect naane like the quills of the fretfu.1 porcupine, has heed discovered in Central Asia.

Now is the time when the poor but honest larrikin sallieth forth with a sack and annexotJi his neighbonr's fruit. In the New Hebrides Islands, the Erench vesseJs giye a snider rifle and tenyartridges as "trade" for a male recruit and two sniders for a female. Mr Gordon, Engineer of Mines I)epartment will return from Australia at the end of this month, and will visit the Thames and Te Aroha goldfields on his way to Wellington. The first prize(£ 1,000) in Bobin Hoods co sultation on the Dunedin Cup was won by a tailor, and the second (£500) by employees in a coal yard. The fawns imported by the Tauranga Acclimatization Society some time since are doing well. It is probable that they will be released on Mr J. Brown's estate, at no distant date. The Secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance Association of Australasia is coming to Auckland to arrange for the erection of premises in Queen-street, as central olfice of the North Island, at a cost of £50,000. There is a lady in Paris who claims to be "the eldest daughter of Queen Yictoria" — the reputed Crown Princess having been substituted for her when an infant. Many people of influence support her claim. A young horse belonging to Mr E. Eobertson, which they were trying in single buggy harness, took fright at something in the Devonport-road and started off helter-skelter along the Strand, throwing the occupants out, knocking down the flagstaff in front of Turner and Buddle's Auction Mart, and a post in front of Mr Bodell's store it was brougt up at Horne and Eeid's corner by the vehiecle coming in contact with the brickwork and capsizing. The buggy was considerably knocked about and oue of the occupants was bruised about the thighs.