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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 24 July 1889, Page 4

The discovery of 4000 sovereigns by some boys beneath the Williatnetown Pier has naturally created a considerable sensation ia Melbourne, The money is supposed to be that taken from the Orient Company's 8.8. Iberia some few months ago. The acaonnt given of the affair by the officers of the steamer on her airival in England was as follows:— Some specie was shipped at Sydney, but on the arrival of the vessel at Melbourne other boxes of gold were taken on board, and the whole of the oaatents of the speoie room were examined and placed in order for the trip. The strong room ia whioh " m the specie is stored is situated io the main .hold of the veßsel, and is secured by a special Chubb look. After the room is looked the key ia deposited in a cash box, and this box is looked by the captain in the presence of the purser. Tne captain retains the key, which, for greater safety, be wears round hia neok, and the cash box containing the strong room key ia looked up ia a safe in the parser's room. The specie is sent home in boxes containing 6000 sovereigns eaoh. These boxes were carefully counted at Melbourne, found to ba all correct, and the usual preoautions were taken with the key of the strong room. Throughout the whole voyage the room was not supposed to ba opened, and the keya, as far as is known, never left the custody of the commander and the purser; yet, when the vessel arrived at London one box of gold was missing. Captain Shannon, the commander, had been in the company's service for several yeare, aod waa looked upon as » moflb trustworthy officer. Tha second officer and the purser were also regarded as above suspicion; but) the gold was gone, and as no explanation of its loas could ba given at all, the Directors of the Company felt compelled to ask these gentlemen to resign. They did not wish to BUBpect these gentlemen, bat it appeared to them that there must have been gross carelessness in some quarter or the robbery could not have occurred, Tha surmise of course is that if there wai no connivance on the part of the late officers the robbery mußt have been committed by someone who was well acquainted with the ship's routine, and had in some mysterious obtained an impression of the key of the strong-room on some previous voyage, and aided by this had manufactured a second key whioh would unlock the door. But even when he obtained possession of the box, he must still have had considerable difficulty in getting the gold off the ship. Five thousand sovereigns weigh olobc upon lowt, and if a ' man attempted to carry them out in portmanteaus the weight of them would excite suspicion. They were got off, however, and the box whioh had contained them vanished as completely aB the sovereigns. It is not anticipated that the mystery will ever be '' cleared up. The robbery must have been planned and executed with great skill,, and it is only reasonable to assume that the same skilfulnesß will be exercised in the disposal ol the stolen sovereigns. In the coarse of a series of artiolea in the Christian World on what he saw in Aub< irahsia, Dr. Hannay, the Congregations: delegate, writes :■.-" In New Zealand, whioh we visited before we touched Australia everything went to contradiot our experience that we were not at Home. From Dunedin which seemed to be clipped out of the raaj ol Scotland, and where I heard and spoke the dialect of the home of my boyhood, as ii sixty years of my life had been blotted out we passed to Auckland, taking Oamaru Timatu, Ghristcburcb, and Wellington oc our way ; and whether we thought of the climate, or looked on the snow-capped moun' tains, the numerous rivers and lakes and th< far-stretching fruitful plains, we still bac the sense of the home-land upon our spirits New Zealand hae bad a oruel oheck pul upon her prosperity by the enormous debl which she has contraoted — amounting, ] believe, to about £67 for every man, woman, and child in the colony. But if even now she can koep herself oat of the hands oi speculative financiers and political adven° turns, and patiently develop her wonderful resources, she will, at no distant date, lift tier head as the Britain of the Southern Seas, and play no unimportant part in the furtherance of all the high interests which lie near to the heard of the'mother country." Apropos of the recent celebration of the centenary of the United States constitution, it has (says the Daily News) been discovered that there is one profession which ought to Stave bean more prominently repreiented in the public ceremonies. The reference is to the medical profession, whose claims are based on the ground that no other has made jraoh advances sines the death of Washing, ton, which it had a considerable share in ' .hastening. It is our contemporary, the fltw York JVation, which reminds us that, though it is now but little remembered, it is an historical fact that Washington was bled to death by his doctors. The first who was sent for found him, an old man of nearly 70, suffering from cold and bronchitis, and therefore presumably weakened, or much " pulled down," as we now say. The doctor at once went to work in accordance with the medical 1.1 ".is of the tiroo. null weakened

him still further by taking from him 11 or 12025 of blood. Fiading that the patient did not improTe under this treatment, two others were called in in consultation, and they *t omi9 proceeded to take from him between 30 and iOoz more. As the loss of blood is the most exhausting process to Trhioh a man's frame can be exposed, the illustrious patient naturally sank under it xapidly, and in 24 hours from the beginning of his attack he was dead. Eeferring to the recent colliery acaident at the A. A, Company's mine, the Sydneij Morning EiraU flays:— "The fall of the roof, which must cover many acres of ground, hae left indelible traces of the terrific effects upon the surface over 200 ft aboye it. Hills and flat land for an area of a quarter of a mile have suffered severely through the •baking, showing great fissures in some instances fully *6in wide. A poultry farmer named Charles Heath, who lives immediately over the place where the ground has fallen, dewribea the effect on Saturday morning m being like several shocks of earthquake. His honse, a wooden structure, withstood the shaking ; but a briok building, he feels sure, would have succumbed to the rooking. The noise, combined with the subsidence, was bo great that it oaused an extraordinary soene in the poultry yard, the pigs and fowls scattering in all directions, terrified at the earth tremors. The surface gives no indication of any depression so far. but this will doubtless take plaoe subsequently. Acre upon acre of ground are rent in numerous plaoes, the cracks tanning eaßt and west. The extent of the sraderground workings will be pretty well understood from this result. .If business isn't booming just &t the aniocte, don't fret yourself into the belief that jrou are paying too high wages, and proceed to pare down the laborers' little surplus. JBemembfir two things— viz., that in the long run well-paid labor is the cheapest bt cause the most) expert; And productive, and that the more money worising men earn the more they will spend, and i& is the money spenders who keep the wheels of business greased. A mho is earning but a bare living, with nothing in hand, nothing to spend above the bare jaeciesitieß of life, nothing to save, nothing to giaiify taßtb oi feed intelligence, ie about «i lorry a beiug as can be found. A liberal toward wage owners will return in good bhape, tbrongh tbe channels of trade, .ft the wage payer.,-— (foyer's Stationer*

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