Heavy Embezzlement

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1159, 1 December 1904, Page 3

Heavy Embezzlement

Five Tears' Gaol

Pross Association.—Copyright.

London, November 30 David Huepuerd, accountant at Cardiff, has boon sentenced to fiyo years' imprison, mont for embezzling £16,000,

The installation of tho Waihi Gold Mining Company's acid plant is drawing near completion. Tho effect ol ibis plant when completed will be llwt flic bullion will be subject, I'd to ;i inatmont that will separate tho silver from gold, and instead of bars of bi'llion being transhipped homo bars of pure gold will take their place, Other improvements at tho battery, including the addition of tubo mills, to act in concert with tho plant, nro also in an advanced slate,

The Master Butchers' Association of Auckland having decided to raiso the price of meat, the rise takes placo os from to-day. Tho step was tho result of the high price of cattle, Wo havo not learned whether the action of the Auckland Association will aflect tho price of moat in Waihi,

A mossago from Wellington statos that no surpriso was evinced thero at tho Stipendiary Magistrate's decision in tho test oaso brought by tho Labour Department against a local shopkeeper in order to discover whether shopkeepers wero obliged to conform to tho hours of closing laid down in the now Statute After tho p'oodmgs of its counsel last Friday, those vorsed in legal umttors unhesitatingly declared that tho inter* protation of" combinod districts" would send tho Department to grief. Tho oorrospondont states that the shopkeepers opposed to the Act are jubilant, but their triumph may be a short-lived one, inasmuch as the goaotting of combinod districts will bo notified in Thursday's Gnzetco. Thero is a chance, howover, for tho opponents of tho Act, as Mr. Skerrett advines that tho Act has no provision for determining oombined districts, and Mr. Seddon's recent remarks anent a second test oaso nppoar to lit in with the lawyer's viow, so tho Courts wilt most likoly hrvo plenty more work on hand to clear tho present entanglement.