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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 374, 1 December 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Hank of England possess some singular traditions ami experiences. Hero is an anecdote from an authentic source, relating to .something that happened many years ago beforu the lifeliino of the present generation. The directors received an anonymous letter Matins: that the writer had tho means of acce-s' to their bullion-room. They treated the matter as a hoax, and took no mtice of the lcit-r. Another more urgent ind specific letter failed to rouse them. At length the writer offered to meet them in the bullion-room at any hour they pleased to name. They then communicated with their correspondent through the channel he had indicated, appointing some " dark and midnight hour" for tho rendezvous. A deputation from the board, lantern in hand, repaired to the WltoU'tooin, locked thenieelvoj) in,

and awaited the arrival of the mysterious correspondent. Punctual to the hour a noise was heard below. Somo boards in the floor were without much trouble displaced, and in a few minutes the Guy Fawkes of the bank stood before the astonished directors ! His story was very simple and straightforward. An old drain rau under the "bullion-room, the existence of which had become known to him, and by means of which ho might have carried away enormous sums. Inquiry was mad». Nothing had been abstracted, and the directors rewarded the honesty and ingenuity of their auony mous correspondent—a working man, who had been employed in repairing the sewers—by a present of JCSOO.