AMERICAN ITEMS.
| A GOLD ROBBERY. | BULLION ON SONOMA. JtEOTKll’s TEI.EGEAIIiNEW YORK, Nov. 23. [t is reported from San Francisco that five boxes of gold from Sydnej on the Sonoma, were stolen en route. The value is 125,000 dollars, consigned by the Commonwealth to the International Banking Corporation ot Sail Francisco. The burglar proof locks „n the safe were filed off and duplicates I substituted, to defy detection. It is thought the bullion was landed at I Honolulu and that many are involved. The crew are under surveillance. ! THEFT OF GOLD.
theft of gold. 'Received This Day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov 24. The Commonwealth Bank confirms the theft, of the Sonoma’s gold. Besides five stolen ten other boxes were shipped, each containing £5,000 sterling The gold was shipped only twenty minutes before the steamer left, and was locked in the strong-room lit the presence of the bank and ship-officials so there is no possibility that the robber,'; occurred at Sydney.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1921, Page 2
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160AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1921, Page 2
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