AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 111, 5 November 1894, Page 2

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s « EXTENSIVE FORGERIES. THE SPIRITUALISTIC EXPOSURE. fPKB PRESS ASSOCIATION!. Perth, November Q, Freeh water has been struck by a bore on tlie Hampton Plain, 13 miles from Coolgardie, Extensive forgeries havo been discovered to have been committed by a Fremantle commission agent named Edgar Hassell. It is alleged that he forged a number of bills on an auctioneering firm, aud the matter was reported to the police. Ou the latter proceeding to tho office of accused they found that ho had attempted suicide by shooting himself in the bead, and he now lies in a critical condition. MelbocßNE, November 3 A big fire occurred in Flinders' Lan« in tho warehouses of Messrs Burstall and Smith and of Bartram and Sons. Damage was done to the extent of £12,000, which is covered by insnranee. Sydnet, November 4. Mr McMillan urged that tho banks required a Union for consultative purposes, and to make that Union strong and nn pregnable three elements must be represented — tho Governments, official elements of tbe Bank, and broader elements represented by the chairman of the Board Mrs Edwards, President of tho Spiritualistic Association, who was present at Mrs Mellon's seance at which the exposure is alleged to have been made, confirms tho statement regarding tbo exposure, aud explains that she preserved silence chiefly out of sympathy for Mrs Mellon.