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Evening Post, Issue 115, 22 June 1865, Page 2

Banjc Robbery.— The Central Bank of Western India has just been plundered to the tune of somewhare about 115,000 dollars. Of that sum a small portion has been recoverd. The affair was managed by means of a tunnel, winch was dug between a drain and the floor of the bank's treasury vault, a distance oi 60 teat. A flag was raised up and entrance to the vault obtained. Here were many bags of dollars, four boxes of gold bars, several boxes of small silver coin, and 63,000 in notes. The bank not having a note issue of its own, the notes were those of various other banks, and their numbers had not been taken* it not being customary in Hongkong to keep the numbers of bank notes on hand. Two boxes of gold bars were removed as well aa all the paper money, also two bags of dollars and a box of ten cent-pieces. The authorities at Canton and Macao were at once communicated with, so that they might be on the alert, and we hear that some arrests have been made at Macao. The police of Hongkong made vigilant search throughout the city and tiie Island, and succeeded in apprehending between twenty and thirty men oa suspicion. On the person of one of them was found 5,755 dollars and two bars of gold> having the bank's mark upon them. Further Bearch being made, seven gold ingots were found in a mal-shed at Wanchi. One of the men apprehended has admitted his guilt, and given up the names of eight Chinamen who were engaged with him in the robbery. — Straits Times, February 22.