The case of Alexander lod, says the " Age," furnishes one more instance of a young man having all his future prospects blasted through yielding to temptation and pursuing evil courses. Tod is a South Austral an, and most respectably connected. In 1869 he was taken on probation in the office of the Union Bank at Adelaide, his salary for the first ihree years being £50 per annum. In January last he was removed to Melbourne, and his salary was rinsed to £150 per annum ; on Ist July it whs further increased to £175. at which it remained up to the time when he absconded A short time since he was tem porarily placed in the position of toller, and in vhat capacity hid as much as £15,000 (.ass through his hands in one day, and on the 23rd inst the balance of coin and notes in his sole charge was about £1400'), us shown by a statement entered by himself in the teller's daily bn'ance book. From this amount he had abstracted £1250 in gold, and absconded with it. The circumstances lending to this are of the usual s-tump. Tod had fallen in with and been fnsoinated by a woman named Eliiabeth Armstro g, who has evidently ob tained great influence over him. Although the abstraction of the money was not known until the 24th inst, it was evident th tt the greater portion, if not the whole of the amount, must have been taken some days previously, aa the woman had obtained a draft for £500, payable at Aucklanri, and had aleo paid for passage for Tod and herself by the Claud Hamilton several days before he made his final balance-entry in the bank-book. The unhappy man evidently felt his position keenly as he etood in the dock yesterday, while his paramour, or his wife as she claims to be, did not evince much concern. Aa will be seen by the police-report all the money has been recovered with the exception of iibout £200, a result greatly due to the promptitude and intelligence with which Constable Scullin, of Quoensoliff, aoted on the instructions he received from the detective office.
