MR COMMISSIONER SPEIGHT.
It appears that Mr Richard Speight, dxchairman of the Victorian Railway (Jommissioneis, was also drawn into the whirlpool of speculation, which has engulp lied so many of our Australian-reared dignitaries. Knjoying a splendid salary for many years, with what was leally a handsome douceur of £6000 a-year added to this remuneration, it would be thought that lie could have escaped the rocks and shoals of the " boom " time. Still, recently an injunction was granted restraining him from parting with or encumbering the snir. of £2000, part or hie compensation money. The applicants for the injunction were Messrs Cochrane and Sou, who had erected a building for Mr Speight on certain lind in Colliu-street. I In , ex-chairman is now under heavy liabilities in connection with this speculation, with which one of the building societies is ilso associated.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3159, 22 September 1892, Page 2
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139MR COMMISSIONER SPEIGHT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3159, 22 September 1892, Page 2
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