AUSTRALIAN.
[r«B »aBS ASSOCIATION.] Received January Bth, noon.
ENORM.OUS DEFALCATIONS. Sydxby, January 8.
It has been discovered that Bennett, late manager of the Paddington branch of the English .and Scottish Chartered Bank, perpetrated the frauds with great ingenuity. He appears to have operated upon the London Chartered Bank, as well as his own Bank, by mean, of title deeds and other securities. The defalcations amount to fully £20,000.
THE REDUCED POSTAGE.
Melbourne, January 8. The first mail to the United Kingdom under tbe 2_d rate of postage shows an increase of 50 per cent, over tbe number of letters forwarded under the old tariff,
THE ZALINSKI GUN.
The Zalinski gun, purchased some time ago by Victoria, has been taken over by the Imperial Government, and the colony thus gets rid of what looked like a " white elephant."
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7756, 9 January 1891, Page 5
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