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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 8, Issue 713, 30 December 1865, Page 3

Arrest of a Bank Ci,mtK§i|pK ' ment. — On Saturday last, John M. Broughto|}| about nineteen years of age, late of Wanganui, and brother to Mr. Broughtorifinterpreter, who was so brutally murdered recently by the natives, was arrested at the "S/rath Sea" Hotel by Mr. Police-Inspector Atc^g^n on the charge of having embezzled certain monies while acting as clerk in the branch of the New South Wales Bank at Wanganui. The information was laid by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the manager of the Bank, and as it was required^ to be executed immediately, Broughton Avas at once arrested, and is at present in gaol to await the first opportunity for being forwarded to Wanganui for the hearing of the case. We understand the amount of the alleged embezzlement — uplh which this specific charge has boon made — is £10. — Advertiser, Dec. 25. Letiing a Superintendent in fo-r it. — The late Superintendent of Marl borough A. P. Seymour, Esq., expenffPl while in office several hundred pounds for which he had no authority by the Appropriation Act, and the Council which has lately sat at Blenheim, composed chiefly of his political opponents, have I thrown out the Indemnity Bill which was to ; hare legalized this proceeding. — Nelson JEx- ' amincr.