AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
LP'SB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Stj>nby, September 26. The Excelsior Building Society has suspended payment. Its capital was £105,000. The principal liabilities are — Paid up capital £58,000, reserve fund £39.000. contingent fund £10.000, deposits £280,000. The value of its assets is set down at £428,000, inducing borrower's balances £225,000, lands and buildings £174,000. Mr Janies P. Howe, M.L.A., late Chairman of <he Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company, and James Miller, merchant, late Director, bave been arrested on a charge of con» spiring to defraud the Company. Both accused have been admitted to bail. Melbotjene, Septembpr 28. A remarkable case of somnambulism is reported from Bourke. A man walked from his seat to the platform of a railway carriage, and jumped of while the train was going full speed. An alarm was raised, the train was pulled up, and the guard with some passengers went back expecting to find the dead body near the track, to their surprise they discovered the man quite uninjured and without any knowledge how he got off the train. He was perfectly sober, and asserted that he had always been a somnambulist.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 1 October 1891, Page 2
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189AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 1 October 1891, Page 2
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