LOCAL and other itemsBy recent advices from tbe northward, we regTCt to learn that quite a number of families in the itnmed'levciuity of the mining region at Little Bay, are in a state bordering on destitution owing to the failure of the season’s industrial operations. As the season is new advanced and some six hundred people are in imminent peril of starvation iu that locality, we wouldurge upon the authorities the necessityof ear^y action in the matter,W' t