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New Zealand Mail, Issue 839, 30 March 1888, Page 1

Withreference to the alleged Municipal frauds in Sydn'ey, the Mayor estimates the sum embezzled at £40,000. The system of swindling has been explained as follows : Goods were; 1 ordered . as required by the gangers in charge of works, and the requisi. tion forms 'subsequently altered. Thus a

man would order 10 castings, and the form would subsequently be altered to make it appear that 110 had been supplied. If the price of goods were, say, l id per lb, the Corporation would be charged and so on. T nitialS and signatures were forged, receipts and orders Were signed, and generally the business of the Corporation was conducted by two sets of officers; the first passed the correct entries, and the second effected the necessary and profitable alterations. , A husband who had incurred the anger of his wife, a terrible virago, seeks refuge under the bed “ Come out of that, yon brigand, von rascsl, von assassin ! soreamed his gentle companion. “No madam, he replied, calmly. “I won’t come out. lam going to show you that I shall do as I please in my own house. A well-known New Yorker, long noted for his success in business, once said: “The seoret of wealth does not lie in knowing how to hold on to money—it consists m knowing when to let it go.”, ,•