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[Special to Press Association.] A BA.NK BOBBERY. SYDNEY, Dsc. 22. A peculiar case of robbery is reported from Pyrmont, a suburb of Sydney. Two men, personating detectives, with the permission of the officials of the Australian Chartered Bank, secreted themselves on the bank premises, alleging that they were aware that au attempt was to be made to rob the bank. The pseudo-detectives stole .£IOO and decamped. A DUBIOUS EXPERIMENT. MJSLhOUKNS", Dec. 22. Dr Cafiin has expressed little faith in Dr Koch's cure. He has, however, tried an experiment on a young woman having the disease in its acuteat form. He prepared lymph from consumption germs cultivated in chicken broth, introduced lymph into the arm forty times, and is awaiting results; [Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, Dec. 22. ARRESTED. A man named Henry Jatneß Purbrook, described as an electrician, has been arrested at Mercury Bay, on the eve of his marriage, on the charge of stealing gooda to the value of .£IS from Messrs Smith and Canghey, drapers, Auckland. He was brought np at the Police Court and remanded. NAPIER, Dec. 22. CHARGE OF LIBEL. Peter Diriwiddie and R. T. Walker, publisher and editor of the Hawke's Say Eeralcl were to-day committed for trial on the charge of criminal libel preferred by F. C. Cassin. The alleged libel appeared in two letters on election matters. The Magistrate having intimated at the outset that he .would commit, the defendants reserved their defence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7045, 23 December 1890, Page 4
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