SUSPENDED PAYMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 202, 20 May 1908, Page 7

SUSPENDED PAYMENT.

. -« —-— . ' AN - ALLEGHENY BANK. DY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT New York, May 18. The Allegheny National Bank has suspended payment. Allegheny, in Pennsylvania, on the opposite bank of the Ohio from Pittsburg, lias two natioiul banks. The Allegheny First National Bank has a, capital of '350,000 dols. {<£70,000), surplus and profits (Dec. 3, 1907) 1+5.827 tlols. (■£20,165), and gross rioposits 1,317,801 dols. (,£263,578). The Alegheny Second National Bank lias a capital of 300,000 dols. (.€00,000), surplus and profits 843)243 dols. (&1G5,650), and gross deposits 1,015,901 dols. (oC209,180). A Now York cablegram published. yesterday slated that "Montgomery, eashior cf the Allegheny National Bank at Pittsburg, has been charged with absconding with ,£27,000' belonging to the bank. He pleads that he was money-mad."

The Hutt Literary and Debating Society will open its 1908 season at eight o clock this evening ,in the Town Hall, Lower Hutt.' After a programme of musical and elecutionary items has been disposed of, an open debate will take place on tho subject "That Athletic Professionalism is Detrimental to Truo Sport." ' Poverty is,cured, only by hard work, and too "many moil regard tho remedy as worse than the disease.—" Daily Star,".Montreal. AYo do not want all women to bo smart and energetic; she who can bo merely gentlo and gracious and charming—and shall wo not •ovon say helpless?—maintains tho ideal of .womanhood for man to worship,—" Lady's 'Pictorial."