A Mining Scandal.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, July 6. A meeting of shareholders in the Fiery Cross, Prince of Wales, and Waihi Welcome Goldmining Companies was held , to day. He stated thai in th« Fiery Cross Company about 9100 shan-a in excess had been issued ; in the Waihi Welcome 9000, and in the Prince of Walts , 10,000, as far as could be ascertained. i These shares had been void and parsed ) from broker to broker and inTsstor to inrestor. Transfers had been stamped and registered and receipts issued, and in many ins'anees calls were made and had been paid. Acting- Detective Mills proceeded to North Shore tonight and arrested at hit residence there W. It Waters, legal manager of the Fiery Cross Goldmining Company on a charge of wilfully falsifying a certain book register of the Company by entering upon th« said register 3000 shares as being the property of the said Wm. B. Waters in trust, whereas such shares did not exist in fact. Later. Mr William R. Waters was brought up at tbe Police Court to day before Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M., and charged with falsifying the share register of the Fiery Cross Company. On the application of counsel, he was remanded till next Wednesday, bail being allowed and fixed at two sureties of £75 each.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 7, 8 July 1897, Page 2
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219A Mining Scandal. Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 7, 8 July 1897, Page 2
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