TELEGRAPHIC NEWS INTERPROVINCIAL
[Per United Pri;<«s Association].
Wellington, Juty 29. William Lain bourne has been sentenced to 3 months imprisonment by the Magistrate at Masterton for imposing on the Benevolent Society there. The accused alleged he was in desp ( era.te circumstances and had obtained relief while he had.£BsO on deposit in" the bank at Marton. B. Sampson, tobacconist, was fined £5 and costs on a charge of selling printed matter of jan indecent nature. On a second information a nominal penalty was inflicted.
The cablegiatn from London to the effect that the proposal of the Union Bank of Australia directors to withdraw a quarter of a million from the reserve fund to form a contigent account had been ijejedjed w.as evidently mutilated, as a later' cablegram says that the scheme was adopted and this information is confirmed by a telegram to Jibe ißank here. Douglas 1 team b^ steepleCTiasqrs leit for Lyttelton to d'ayj therefore there is-little doubfc th.it ijhey have abandoned the Caulfield engagement.
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West Coast Times, Issue 10338, 30 July 1896, Page 3
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