MAIL NEWS.
HUGE BANK-NOTE FORGERIES. Bank-note forgery on a large scale has been discovered in Warsaw. A factory of Russian bank-notes, postoffice orders, and postage stamps seems to have flourished for the last four years, and an enormous number of 500 rouble (£SO) notes have been put into circulation. The leaders of the-gang of forgers have been-arres-ted: The National Banks have cashed about £400,000 worth of forged notes, and private losses amount to at least £90,000. '•' AN IMPOUNDED TRAIN..
A bai}jff pxpcutgd a distraint on a railway train at Benedictins station, n.ar LipiPgos. France, recently. While lie' was serving a copy of. the claim on the stationmastcr the driver- started : h s engine and steamed away with the impounded train, much to: the indignation of the bailiff. Without loss of time he made out p.ll affidavit describing 'fhis daring jhuiflererice to the law, "and has already taken steps to prosecute the stationmastcr for contempt.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7415, 3 October 1902, Page 3
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154MAIL NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7415, 3 October 1902, Page 3
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