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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A HUGH SWINDLE, c Recei vec ! This Lav at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Chicago police regal'd the bank swindle organised by a gang ulidei Worthington and C harles Trench, as the greatest on record. Papers seized disclosed a plan was established for a great international bank operating in United States, Canada, Australia a*'d England with a capital of one hundred million sterling. It wgs intended to handle great mining and automobile interests. The police found thirty millions of dollars worth of stocks bonds, notes and other securities, some good and some bad. Those include nine million dollars worth of securities discovered in a safety deposit vault at Cleveland, obtained from twenty-seven firms on the s‘ length of tlie glowing prospectuses promising the erection ot rubber fa<iories. The gang secured immense sales of stock, but the factories never eventuated. Albert Roberts, a bond salesman suicided to prevent arrest in connection with the swindle. MR HUGHES IN PARIS. ‘Received This Day at 8 mm.) PARIS, August 26. Air Hughes spent only a Gw hours in Paris in conference with M. Dior Minister of Commerce regarding trade •clarions. The French are nuzzled con■erning the new tariff. Dior request'd consideration of a reciprocal arrangement. Mr Hughes also had a long c»»ere nee with the French Colonial Office •egarding New Hebrides. He emphas fisted Australian views and expressed Tie opinion that there should be consilerable improvement in the tnamegenent of the island. COM MON W HALT 11 STEA M ERS. MELBOURNE, Aug. 29 Eva, Manager of the Commonwealth Tea mors, referring to tlie cable which states that a conference ot lines have leeided not to penalise shippers tlislatcliing cargo by the Coiiimoiiwoaltii inc, said this meant it was recognised bat’the line had come to stay, and vcuilcl receive a much larger share cfl inputs in future than in the past.

FOOT HAM THIRD TEST TEAM. WELLINGTON. Aug. 29. The following have been selected to assemble at Wellington to go into training preparations for the third Lest: ! Backs. Kingston, Evans, Steele, II- ; werson. Kuril, Markham, Algar, Ko- , berts, li. E. Nicliolls aml M. Nicholls; j forwards, Donald', Fogarty, Duncan, ' .McLean, Moffitt, Richardson, Beilis. I West, Turnbull and Fletcher. , The following will represent the . Westland reps in their match with the • Reel Lion team at Hokitika on Saturi elav next.—N. Wogan, Ross, A. Wogatt, Rutherford, Duncraft, Moynihan, Wallace, Curley, Dcvaney, Kearns, K. Wallace, Freitas, Cuthush, Dinnni Aitjken. Emergencies. Backs —J. O’ Connor, W. Stopford; Forwards---Wal-ker. W. Thompson, and Davidson.