THE GOLD ROBBERY FROM THE TAIVUAN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 June 1897, Page 3

THE GOLD ROBBERY FROM THE TAIVUAN.

(P»R tteUH AIEOOIATION. -COPYSiaBT ) (Received June S, 12,30 a.m.) Thuesday Island, Wednesday. . Hone Kong papew to hand show that the Talyuan f>old robbery was dlsoaveted five days after Ilia vessel left Pott Darwin. The safe kej', kept by the chief officer, wag missing, ond (he door of the safe WQB locked, A strict search was made on reaching Hong Kpog, bat no trace of the gold or taa thief was found, It is bßlievnrt the robbpry was onmraUted while tfco a tor. met wav at Port Darwin. Tho robbery from the Tnlyoan of £4000 I was referred to In onr osblea a few days i flgo Thefts of gold la transit by steamer i from Australasian ports mc not bo frequent or bo large, referonoe being bad to the immense amount of treasure that leaves tboßO shores every year, as to excite very great attention, bat when we are told that Id all probability a gang of highly expert barglarg and strong -room thieves are practising we msy regard the sncoesslve gold robbetleß ai eornothlne of a aerlei (nays the Sydney Morning Herald). Going back no farther than the 23rd of January last, we aome to another robbery oi £5000, again in sovereigns, from the strongroom of the Ooenna, a crime discovered on the arrival of the steamer at Melbourne from Sydney on her voyage to London, That crime la an preeent wholly travelled. Oa the 13th of May, 1889, the steamer Iberia arrived in London from Australia, and it was fonnd that her strongroom br.d been robbed of 5000 tovereigns shipped at Sydney, and foand to be safe at> Melbourne on 27th March. Part of the Bpeole woniojovored by chanco In the sand at Wllllamstown nnder the pier. Two boys while foßslcklng hfter a moose espied tho sovereigns, and the police recovered 3742. There never was a clno gat to the robber, who had apparently realised £1258 In ISSO tho steamer Tfirarua lost £5000 worth of gold burs, shipped at Port Chalmers, It was a slmplo job, for the strongroom hod been unlocked, the gold nbetraeted, and the doors lucked again. Tfao inspected man Hintou, a steward, settled down ati Adelaide, where he died in 1883, and when his effects were examined preparatory to briug sent to Amerloa to bis bro'hor, ooe and tbon two more bars of the Tnrnma cold wore foand and recovered— £3ooo worth. Captain and crew of tbo Tararna were dismissed, and on her next trip she was wrecked. In 1877, the foarth of September, the polloe learned that tbe steamer China had arrived at tialle eborti of 5000 sovereigns, shipped at Sydney, In this oase tbe onlprlt was found and part of the money recovered, Tbe ship's carpenter, named Welberg, bad most artintloally opened tbe boxes containing tbe gold and planted bU booty, with wbloh he retarned to Yiotorla and establlihed himself as a farmer In the wild region of tho Tarwln river, A quarrel with his wife, an ex-barm&td, resulted in the police (retting wind of his seoret, and after much trouble and one escape he was brought to justice, served a sentence, and is thought no have been drowned at tea, At Nelson in the blxMos the Btenmer Aredale lost a box of gold worth £5000, which 18 months afterwarda was accidentally fished np intact by a wharf laborer,