A Banks Vanished Wealth.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7743, 20 February 1905, Page 2

A Banks Vanished Wealth.

Tiie Melbourne correspondent of the New Zealand Times writes as follows'.—A strange and sensational development at the llendigo branch of the Hank of Australasia has been engaging the attention of the hank jauthorities and the detectives lor the past week and is still a mvsterv. [There is a great deal of secrecv maintained about the nllair, hut the ■ facts seem to be as foMows :

H appears than on January 14th when the quarterly cluck count of the bullion reserves in the safe was being made, a sum of £I2,HK> could not We traced. The money is kept in a sale which requires the application of two keys, which are in possession ol the manager and the accountant. When either of these gentlemen is away the key he holds is) retained l,v lie teller. Neither of them has been absent in recent months. The sale is.frequently opened l() put m ' n take out money. Tin- quarterly count revealed that two bug* containing U.O sovs. each are n.issi, " aSt,i anollU "'

I'iom what can be learned there i* no reason to susi>ect either of tte officers who how the keys,, and th, S, Or ! hoba " k «» in other £ Z iLTc ;:.. r0 ? ulal '' A **n search LI . ?, I inspector, and diligent St anv leCti :° S " UV " fail elicit amy information, and tordav the bank announces that it will f '•'' « reward of £SOO for any se™.f tf °«t "ill enable them '," ■ sicuie the sum missing. The deter 'haVe,"" 8 • that duplicate Si« nave been obtained, and are endeavouring t0 trace the keys supplied by tho local, locksmiths during recent WUttt'llS,