CLIENTS LEAVE THE STATE HUR. RIEDLY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11637, 15 August 1905, Page 2

CLIENTS LEAVE THE STATE HUR. RIEDLY.

WAEEANTS ISSUED FOE THEIE

AEEEST.

The Sydney Evening News says: A number of well-known business firms have received a shock within the past two days to learn that two clients of theirs, who had been making extensive purchase for some time, had cleared out without settling their accounts. The clients in question had been carrying on business in Sydney for some years^past, the firm' consisting of a father and one of his daughbfi?3. Tl ey <lMd been making extensive purchases of various lines, including boots i»nd "hecs, jewelleiy and mercery, from different films for some time past on credit, and reu'isriig the same at 25 per cent, ander cost v'-ice, •the realisation being carried on up to within" the last few days. One firm has been left lamenting the 'loss of wcith of jewellery, and so cleverly' was the thing worked that some goods that had been ordered were not actually delivered uur.il after the principal in the firm bad left the State. It has transpired that thfe female member of the firm left Sydney by the Sonoma on July 10, and the Ventura, which sailed on Monday last, took away the principal and another, of his daughters as passengers. It is stated that .£2OO had been drawn from one of the banks prior to the departure of the member of the firm who travelled by .the Sonoma, and that within a day or two of the sailing of the Ventura a further sum of .£SOO was drawn from the bank, a draft for that amount being made payable in San Francisco. An effort is being made to brin? the defaulters back to Sydney, warrants having been issued for their arrest. i