THE SUEZ MAIL STEAMER GOLD ROBBERY.
Wilh reference to tho Im of 5);)) sovereigns which was reporte I lust w >nk us having boon found' m'is<in.j at G-ille, furthpr infdligonee- Itns l> *on received from which it i 9 evident thn-t a clever and nudicion«i roViery lias be.»n perpetrate T. > The infbrmifion Ins eo»n» in ttte firm of another brief telogram to- V[r Kendall, agent for tlie P. and O.S.N, Company, and; i 8 to the cflfoßt that thi» box w»s tv>t rais*i tin at {l "» but the contents hail boen uh^ straciod; th-it tho sods of its outer cas* had" b°en c everly cut, an I that -the itmet* easrt was broken open. It i>» >»ipp »se I that the outer b >x had been o wne.J by meau* of its own key, which had probably been obtained in a surreptitious manner. S> firas the authorities are awire u> cluo to." tho- offender op offenders, as the o.ls* nviy . be t has boon, discaverei, neither i* it yet known, at ioust in M "lit >ume. whoth.w' the- robbery wns committed whilst tlte gold wa9 being oo'iveye I in ilie A.sN»ea from Sydney, or after it had beerV'tran* skipped into tho China for Ceyloa.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 74, 28 September 1877, Page 2
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204THE SUEZ MAIL STEAMER GOLD ROBBERY. Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 74, 28 September 1877, Page 2
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