THE NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAY SWINDLERS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1947, 31 August 1886, Page 3

THE NEW SOU TH WALES RAILWAY SWINDLERS.

The linn of Wright, Heaton and (Jo., of Sydney, have for many years been to Now Smith Wales wha f’ickfoi 1 ami Co. have been to Enghand—t ho monopolists of ilm carrying industry. Like must monopolies but cert aitily uu ike Pickfoid s, those whoso goods havo fallen into the tender care of Wrighl, lJea'.ou and Co. Lave often had to null', r serious loss through articles getting astray, and being a nest unconscionable lime in transit. The (inn, ol which Mr T. A. Wfight is at the head, has had to an:-; ver to a series of charges laid against them by the Commi sioner lor Railways of defrauding the department of large sums of money. The evidence so far shows that a most disgraceful system of swindling has been carried on for years’, the frauds being effected by means of falsifying waybills. What makes the matter worse is that Mr Wright has fiiled the position of Minister for Public Works, and if transpired in the evidence that he look advantage of his position to veto inrtructions issued by the Commissioner of Rail ways for the erection of a weighbridge at one place, when the use of such a machine would have been calculated to expose their frauds. The case lias a most ugly look, and theie is lit'le doubt that one of the firm will got into sore trouble. Six of the firm have been committed for trial—namely, Wright, Heaton, (!. Romany, R. Windsor, LI. Hans u'd, and E, Webster. Mr Wright made a declaration denying his guilt.

A MATRIMONIAL FRAUD.

Aiueiican papers report an extraordinary ft and upon a young American lady. .John Conway, a Flintshire butler, met Mrs. and Miss Rlauelie Hussey at a popular Long Branch hotel, and commenced to pay lii.s attentions to Miss Hussey undet the name of the Honourable -lolin Seymour-Con way. The sweetheart, iug proceeded apace, and ended in a wedding. The lion Mr?. S yniour was supplied by her mother with 1000 dollars, and sailed with her husband for England to be introduced tolier blue-blooded relatives I hey arrived at .Liverpool anil proceeded to the Honourable .John’s ancestral lull I, in iUnbyshite, and thereto her intense disgust and indignation, the Iniile discovered that her supposed aristocratic spouse was son of the housekeeper: that his real name was Conwav, and that lie hailed from Ruck lev, near < ‘hosier. The New York Men my states that Mre< 'ouway has returned to New York, ami .is liking steps to obtain a divorce.