CONTEMPORARY NEWS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 187, 3 March 1893, Page 2

CONTEMPORARY NEWS.

ROBBERY IN BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND. A very clever and daring robbery was perpetrated at the Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, on Saturday morning. In its general features, it reminds us of the sort of theft that is common enough in the big cities of the old world, and unfortunately, of late, in Australia, but which is of rare occurrence in New Zealand. Mr R. M. Madill, a clerk employed by the Tramway Company, was standing at the teller’s counter of the Bank of New Zealand counting over a considerable sum of money, preparatox-y to paying it in, when he was tapped on the shoulder by a young man dressed in a light suit, who politely informed him that he had dropped a pound note. Mr Madill was at the time busily engaged counting out his silver, and on the counter beside him was a calico bag containing about forty pound. He at onoe stooped to the ground, but at the same time put his h ind in his pocket, for he was conscious that he had a one pound note in his pocket, and thought that he might have dropped it. As soon as he had looked on the ground he became aware that his own pound note was still in his possession, and that the one lying at his feet was a Sydney note, and not his. He picked it up and was about to explain that the note was not his, when he saw that the hag containing the £4O was missing. He at once ran to the door of the hank hut could see no signs of the thief who had evidently decamped. MRS ALBIE BRAUND. Mr ‘Albie’ Braund, capiain of the Ponsonby district team, and who also captained the Auckland representative teams for the past two seasons, was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony last week. There is not a more popular footballer in Auckland than Braund, and all footballers and followers of our winter game will wish Mr and Mrs A. Braund long life and happiness. A meeting was held at Onehunga 'on Monday night for the purpose of forming a branch of the Auckland Liberal Association there. There was an attendance of between thirty and forty persons, including Messrs G. Peacocks, W. J. Napier, Wilding, and other members of the Auckland Association. The chair was occupied by Mr M. H. Roe. The aims and principles of the movement were explained by the visitors, and it was resolved that a branch of tlia Association he formed, a number of the Onehunga residents who were present signifying their intention of becoming membsrs.