AN EMBEZZLING BELGIAN. AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 81, 20 December 1884, Page 6

AN EMBEZZLING BELGIAN.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

A Commercial Traveller's Career of Dissipation. New York, November 16. — A cable special from London gays : A Belgian named Bosch has just been arrested at Dover, after a remarkable series of adventures, and sent to Belgium to answer a charge of embezzling about 20,000d015. Bosch is a young man, and was a commercial traveller and collected for a wholesale wine dealer in Brussels. In March last he found himself in possession of more than 100,000 francs of his employer's money and absconded with it to England and landed at Dover ; thence he proceeded by easy stages to Liverpool, spending the money lavishly along the way. He never made use of any public conveyance, believing that a watch would be kept upon railway and other passengers, and it is said that he walked all the way from Dover to Liverpool. He took the journey leisurely and lived Jjiotously all the time, stopping at different public-houses as he came to them and indulging without stint in every form of dissipation. When he reached Liverpool he had only a few pounds left and he spent the last shilling in buying a steerage passenger's ticket and outfit in a steamer bound for New York. He went across the Atlantic, but being a pauper was not allowed to land at New York and was brought back on the samo steamer by which he went out and turned adrift at Liverpool. He wanted to return to Belgium, and having no other resource, tramped back from Liverpool to Dover, begging his way at places where a few weeks before he had spent money like a prince. He arrived in Dover ragged, famished and footsore, and, crazed by his sufferings and exposure, was arrested as an insane vagabond, and at the police station it was noticed that he ansv/ered to the description of the embezzler Bosch, who had been wanted by the police for eight months. He did not deny his identity, and has been sent to Belgium, where he will be placed in a lunatic asylum.

San Fbavcisco, November 24.— The Coloured National Committee of New Orleans have called a convention of coloured people to consider the situation of their class under the approaching Demooratic rule, wages and workmen being largely reduced everywhere in the Eastern States.— Betting on Presidential election had been tremendously in favour of the Republicans, their man in face of what they considered foregone defeat. — McClellan, woollen manufaoturer, speaking before the Central and South American Commission holding their sessions at San Francisco, said if Australian wools were admitted into America, it would give such an impetus to woollen manufacture as would improve the value of all American wools. — Captain Bedford Pirn, R.N., was interviewed in New York on his return from Panama. He gave it as hia opinion that De Lesseps's canal is impracticable. — Teenier, oarsman, who is announced to meet Hanlan* lost a race v vrith

Gadour, at Creve' CaBx\*:f^fii&ti:Ban St. Louis. He says his boat was water-logged. — A great lake, supposed to be as large as Lake Superior, has been dispovered in Rupert Land, Canada. It is called the Great Lake Mistassini. The Hudson Bay Company have had a station there 100 years, and kept it secret on account of the valuable fish and fur-bearing animals. Bloody Work in Panama,. A despatch from the Isthmus, dated 15th November, says peace had been restored in Cardinamarca and Santandar, owing tci the active intervention of the Federal Government. The town of Guaduas was captured by the rebels, who subsequently laid down their arms, when many atrocities followed. ATA T picket of twenty-five men, who had defended the school - house for five hours, were slaughtered after surrendering. The body of the commander was subsequently exposed to most terrible indignities. On the following day a number of houses were sacked and several were burned. There were numerous assassinatinos of a fearful and cowardly nature perpetrated. The Diario Official of San Salvador says a mobof 200 men assaulted the houses of Jesus Paredes, Tomas Tadilla, and Captain Pancho, in Nahuezallo, Department of Sonsonate, and murdered them all, together with the wives and children of the two first mentioned, subsequently they murdered a Police Captain, and several other persons, to the number of fourteen. The houses of Paredis, Padilla, and Pancho, were burned Land disputes led to this trouble. , - -- -