AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 74, 26 August 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(BY BLECTBiq^TBtEGiS AP'hW^P-TRIGHT. ) rj ; ; (gßP^k^'s"' TELEGRAMS.) V : ::--^'-,.!'U^- : ■■■■>: '::' iSYUNEXi Tuesday. .. ■•■ /+ Further cbrreispoEfdenc'e has passed be-..■^twgan'vthe-^Governrae'niß^ bf2?ew South and' yjctoriaj. respecting N^w "-' Zealand^ c>ble tAriff, the .Government of ■;.; Victoria haiye declined to contribute to%y^d^ Nfew Zealand cable m order to bb- ;, tain a. rediiction m present r-ates on ■ telegrams, unless subsidies m that line and Tasmanian cable aro thrown into the common^fund, .w ■Melbourne,, Tuesday. . ''V-? Sailed, this afternoon— Union- Com - ! ;pany's s-s. fo» Bluflf. - \ ; i?^:JFurther -information respecting the rplibery. at the Hotham Branch of the ... federal Bank last night, shows, that the ,; ; anjipiint abstracted was much greater . than at first reported. The total amount .' stolen from the safe was consist |qfg of £1 100 which were m fifties, i£^6l m : gpWi arid £124 m silver. A clerk named "} Bbbiusbn, aged twenty -four, who slept "on the premises m clbse proximity 'to the 4afe, asserts that he returned to the bank to sleep) about midnight, and was not disturbed during the night. He further states that by mistake he left the kgys m the keyhole of the door, there are no signs of force being used to enter the premises or open safe {but the minor drawers of -the latter had not been broken open. ; The explanation of Robinson is not considered to be a satisfactory one. i ; Further enquiry into the -. Hotham Bank robbery 1 resulted m the arrest on suspicion of the elfirlcßojbinson, who occupied the premises. When questioned with regard to his movements, his 'answers were equivocal, and he was proved to have been m the habit of keeping bad company.