NEWS IN BRIEF.
A number of counterfeit coins are in circulation in Melbourne. The is a serious outcry against the increase of foxes in Victoria. A small-pox epidemic is raging in Montreal, and other towns in Canada. It is proposed to float a loan of £IOO,OOO, for the further improvement of the Timaru haibour. On the two evenings of I ho Maori songs and dances the takings at the Exhibition amounted to about £l5O. The daily c msumption of water in Melbourne and the suburbs at the present time is 'estimated at, 1-3,000.000 gallons. The codlin moth is to be legislated against in Victoria. The insect has secured a good foothold in Ballarat orchards. Mrs Davis, better known as " Old Margaret," who fot over fifty years had a fruit stall in Westminister If all, London, died recently. During the last 130 years Russia and England h iv.' enlu-ged their possessions a S - h aunexa-
tiotis, 2,650,000 square; miles; population, 250,000,000; Russian annexations, 1,642,000 square miles; population, 17,125,000, which shows that England's annexations exeped those of Russia by 1,008,000 square miles, anil 232,865,000 in population.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2820, 5 October 1885, Page 3
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184NEWS IN BRIEF. Kumara Times, Issue 2820, 5 October 1885, Page 3
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