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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 4

In the' course of .'a'letter to'tho. BlackpooJ Lifeboat "Saturday hnd "Sunday: Committeo, Lord Charles ! Beresford-WTites:— ;.;!'' " You aro quite, right in saying that I take ,a keen interest in tho; lifeboat movement, as ;I consider it onp of. the>most patriotic institutions in the. 'country;: ,-,-No.; matter -what nation a .vessel may -bolong to, i if -sho; gets into distress in,our; hard-featured shores she is; certain of; being relieved as;soou as , possiblo, by the gallant crews! of. Lifeboat-men havo no i Press correspondents in. the storni sheets who.n.thoygo out topperform acts of splendid heroism to save the lives of their fellowrinen. :>;i ' : ' : "- ; ■-"■"■•'■■•'■'-■ '.; Momorics of the robbery'of gold from the Melbourne Mint have'boeii revived (says tne Melbourne" Argus ") by a ; letter recently recoived by tho Premier ?of Victoria from Mr. ■E. M. Pascoe. of Bendigo, in which consideration is asked of a claim for' compensation. The claim is in respectto tho parcel of'gold, weighing ■ 40Goz.■'• lCdwt:', 'and'.valued "at £1630,- which mysteriously disappeared:after haviiig been lodged--at tho Mint' b'y ! Mr. Pascoo on Juno 1: Although; he sianod s paper'indemnifying the. Miiit against'the loss of the gold', Mr. Pascoo. contonds,that'hr naturally assumed that reasonable 'precait. tions would bo taken to gaard his 1 property, but from the facts -disclosed this was not' aj> parcntly doiio: It was hard,'Mr."Pascoo,continued, that ho should have to. suffer the whole of tholoss. Mr: Bentreferred to the letter without indicating, what' action ho' proposed taking. • < . .' "■■■■."■'."■;;