BANK DRAFT.
FOUND GN A TENDER. Perth. Nov. 22. Advices, from London dated October 25th state that aboard the Great Western Railway’s tender at Plymouth a bunk draft was found for £-!0.Pi)0 payable at sight to Chui'les Harcourt at Sydney, and issued in London in August on the Bank of New South Wales. It was found after the tender had beeen used to land American passengers i'roni the Oceanic. There was no passenger named Harcourt aboard, and the loss has not been reported. Sydney, Nov. 22. Referring to the Perth message, the officials of the Bank of New South Wales are of opinion that it is a hoax. No dr.alt for £lO.OOO has been issued to anybody named Harcourt ,and it is unlikely that such a document should not be claimed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 300, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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