THE LITTLE UN.

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 87, 19 March 1885, Page 2

THE LITTLE UN.

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Thursday, March 19th, 1885. It costs over £1,000 a year to keep and clean the erown jewels of England. The Christchurch assessment f or the yearreaches £245,548. A new Maori church, at Kaikohe, costing £700, was lately opened by Bishop Cowie. The Mutual Improvement Association's progaamme this evening will c nsist of readings, and recitations.

There are 160 orphans in a temporary asylum in Xaples. They lost all their relatives by the cholera. The K.M. at Christchurch recently refused to grant a prohibition order against a respectable citizen on the application of the police. The two sailing races postponed from Regatta Day will come off tomorrow forenoon. The protests will be ! considered tomorrow afternoon. lt isprobable that Deteetiye Walker will accompany the prisoner Sheehan, accused of the Castletownroche murder, back to Ireland. A sale of magazines, for members only, will take place at the Mechanics' Institute, at 2 30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mr O'Connor, M.H.R., thinks the present Ministry represents brains, as opposed to money. He points outthat Mr Stout was a schoolmaster and Sir Julius Yogel a stationer. He himself (a supporter of the talented Ministry) was a Dunedin cabman. A meeting of unemployed in Christchurch, on Eriday last, carried the following resolution — "That the Government be asked tore-open the public works, the harvest having proved a complete failure, and hundreds of men being out of employment." The Minitser of Mines is very much pleased with his recent tour of the West Coast. He describes the Collingwood district as the richest mineral countryhe has ever seen. Within a radius of four miles the number of minerals and metals fonnd is almost incredible. Mrs Dudley, the nurse who shot O'Donovan Eossa, is a Roman Catholic, and was most attentive to her religious duties. She is said to be the i llegitimate daughter of an othcer of the Scots Greys, who is now in a land and commission business in New Zealand. — Auckland Star.