SERIOUS CIVIL SERVICE DEFALCATIONS.
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The Wellington correspondent of the “ Lyttelton Times ” telegraphs:—l have heard to-day on direct and unquestionable authority of a matter which, in the course of a day or two, will probably culminate in the arrest of two or three civil servants, and will doubtless create a profound sensation. It has been discovered that stamps to the value of some hundreds of - pounds have been abstracted. The pilfering must have been going on for a long period undetected. For some time the matter • has been in the hands of the detectives, and more than usual 'precautions have been taken to keep it 'quiet. I am given -to understand that arrests 'would have been made before this, but the detectives believe that the persons implicated'must have had'a confederate, outside through whom the stamps were turhed into cash. Matters,however are rapidly culminating. The information maybe depended on as strictly reliable. So far, outside the Government and police, po.one in Wellington is supposed to know anything about the affair. . ’ •
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2499, 24 March 1881, Page 2
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170SERIOUS CIVIL SERVICE DEFALCATIONS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2499, 24 March 1881, Page 2
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