NEWS IN BRIEF.
It is said that the late Captain Read, the Father. of Poverty Bay, left property to the extent of £300,000 behind him, the bulk of which goes to his nephews. ; ; The Saturday half-holiday movement has extended to Christchurch where it has been favbrabty received. . Sir Julius Yogel is to receive instructions from the Cbloriial Secretary to effect retrenchmerit m his department. Should he resent them ter Eerence and resign, it is rurriored he will be succeeded by Mr Reader Wood. / Statistics show that during^ the late Indian Famine no less a number that 3j532,000 died through sheerstarvatibn, or considerably more than the •vtfhble population of the Australian colonies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 50, 3 April 1878, Page 3
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