ORIGI N AL CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Auckland Times , StR, — I feel it due.to the credit of the British Treasury to contradict the- misrepresentation, in the **. Southern Cross,” that Treasury Bills may be now bought hi Sydney at 6 per cent discount.. No such discount has yet in Sydney, or I believe elsewhere, been submitted..to by the Commissariat or other departments ot the British Treasury. smji.ll • Treasury Bills, in private hands, may of course find iheir way through means of persons ignorant of business into the ham's,of usurers, who Would take advantage of inexperience ' but I appeal to rhe gentlemen connected wiifa she public service, when I ask whether, at any time, in Sydney, such an indication of stupidity as issuing Goverutnedt paper at such a discount has ever been displayed. I am. Sir, your's. &c.* LAPIS,
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Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 58, 20 February 1844, Page 3
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