A Fraudulent Consultation.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 219, 11 August 1884, Page 2

A Fraudulent Consultation.

There has been a'conaultatiou'appearr, ing m our columns for some weeks past, that wo hayp. reason, to believe. a. 'fraud: We refer to 1 that witli th^ neaping Melbdurne Investment -Co.V . and ' sighed JamfeftH. 1 Jacobsen. Consequent ly we hare withdrawn it.. Letters sent to hie address h&ve .beteiq 'returned with an intimation that the Melbourne Post- / 'ra^ster' refused id .'delt^er letters ito Jacobsen. It will be remembered that I 'there wa« a piragfraph m the newspapers i -"ftifew vrbeki ago- stating Uh at tto Mel- '. boiii-ne > authoritie* : had , stopped i New ' i Zealand letters ( addressed to; a. sweep, ' .promdter. ; It is belayed J[adob^o iip -, .one; of the '» Welshers ". exposed by the * Melbourne -papers last year, . ad'vertiseWnt' cahie to us m .a way that ; completely threwiqS/:pfE; ;our;g«ari|.;/,:Jtcame.extensibly from a Melbourne Ad- • vertisipg, Com pflnv, f enclosed,, in i a-nbusi-nesß-likei letter, nfe only utuisaalTeature bexngthat no r quft»tionß were, asked as ' < r -t& cost «f ihfaerton, e''X'sona\fide advertiser .invariably, is particular ronrthjs , pcirii;'. 1 Within- the iast ihfde ;: mohthftj' ; we have refused four consultation advertisements from Australia, of whose bona fides we were not satisfied. , , We notice. that ; Jncobsen'^ advertisement is appeanng ; i)njinoßt,of,Jihe colonial n^wspapere, a fact which, wised, some little suspicion m our minds, knowing, that the cttßt wbiild ' be ' very Considerable, 8D ■~;tliar other newspaper besides ourselves - hftVe 7 b%ißn r aeceived by .the > wily Jacab'r sen. The advertisement was withdrawn to-day, on receipt of certain intelligence 'from o«r .Wellington, ; agent- , >A A y ' money, thaj;! hag .been, senfc, will^, we believe, be returhed' to the senders, through the prompt action takefa by the : Melbourne postal authorities. .We have, . no misgivings with regard to any of the other consultations now appearing m the STANDABD..aII-of which we feel satisfied are genuine and legitimate, -and will be .drawn m >due' course, and-^ thft-. amounts transmitted to holders 'of .'winning ndmbers. ■■•-•- •- .;..-■