What We Hope is not True.

Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1893, Page 3

What We Hope is not True.

A London exchange says : - A Melbourne bank clerk borrowed £2000 from the bank wherewith to make his fortune on the turf, but did not communicate the fact to the manager or directors, as he intended (they all do) shortly to replace the amount. To win it back he em bezzled another £2000, and lost this also. Thinking matters were now serious, he went and stated the case to the family solicitor, a respectable fatherly old gentleman of unimpeachable integrity. After a proper amount of good advice, the solicitor asked the bank clerk if there was any, more money on which he could lajrjMg hands. The Clerk replied thai he could.get another £6000,.and not' be found out for ten days. " Get it, then, arid and bring it to me this afternoon," said the solicitor. The clerk accordingly brought the money to the solicitor. The solicitor counted out £1000. " There, that's for you," handing it to the clerk. Then ho counted out another £1000. " That's for me," he said. Then lie wrote to the chairman of directors, stating that the clerk had embezzled, £10,000, that his family desired to avoid a prosecution, and that the heads of the family had had a meeting, at whioh they had managed to subscribe £4000— the utmost they could raise. , The bank must either take the amount and let the matter drqp, or they might prosecute the oferk. and get nothing. The directors decided to take the £4000.