Defrauding the Victorian "Government.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2

Defrauding the Victorian "Government.

. The Age. Kays:—Th'o practice oi- [ M attempting to import pianos Europe into Victoria without paying S tlio legal duty soetmson the A week ago the the Customs'; JM' authorities of one •'hundred and sixty-■'■;■ instruments from Messrs Blackburn and Co. was umiounced, and since then :/,' ut cargo of three hundred has arrived | by the ship Hermann, of which thirty-V ,- ; nine that wire consigned to another, A■; Melbourne linn are suspected to havo-'i; been made tho object of fraud. Twenty- V .' three of these had beon delivered '-;.'{ buforo the landing 6Urvoyor ciio to >i the conclusion that there ' i able grounds for believing that deceit : ' : ' i: was being practised, and ho then ~V decided to retain the renmiuing sixteen ". V' until proper investigation "could; : u'b'"■•':•■■ made. Not only is it alleged that tho revenue has been defrauded of'.duty '• leviable by means of nudervaljrijm of ; the goods in the invoice prosehtel; but .', also that ono of those invoices has been fraudulently manufactured in the " colony, and tendered us the genuiue invoice of tho consignor in London. The principals of the firms implicated ■.'■' have had several interviews with the Secretary of Customs, at which an, ollicer of the Crown kw Department was in attendance, and' it is understood that the farm have confessed .'".'. their criminality, and request to bo summarily dealt with,