The police are looking for a number of chauffeurs, some of whom are in municipal employ, who are suspected of being concerned in a daring theft of 640 gallons of gasoline.
Eight 80-gallon drums, the property of the Council, are missing. From reliable information it appears that the thieves are selling the motor spirit to a certain garage. During the past six months there have been complaints all over the settlements of the continued theft of gasoline by garage and other chauffeurs.
On Monday a number of motor drivers employed by the Electricity Department failed to report for duty. They had evidently been alarmed by the arrest on Sunday of a chauffeur who was charged on the following day at the Mixed Court with being a receiver of the
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