ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 432, 10 September 1880, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Not long ago a well-known collector of curiosities in Paris, who has devoted considerable sums of money to the gathering together of bank notes of all countries and all values, became the possessor of a . Bank of England £5-note, to 'which an unusually strange story was attached. This note was paid into a Liverpool merchant's office in the ordinary way of business sixty-one years ago, and the cashier, while holding it up to the light to test its genuineness noticed some faint red marks/ which on closer examination proved to be semi effaced words sc; a vied in blood between the printed lines and the blank margin of the note. Eventually the following sentence was made ou t : —" If this note should fall into the hands of John Deon, of Longhill, near Carlisle, he will learn' hereby that his brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers." Mr Dean was promptly communicated with by the holder of the note, and he appealed to the Government of the day for assistance in his endeavor to obtain his brother's release The prisoner, who as it subsequently appeared, had traced the above sentence on the note with a splinter ofwooddipjed in his own bloo:l, had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years when his strange missive first attracted attention in a Liverpool counting honee. His family and friends long be'ievod him to be dead. Event-

ually his brother with aid of the British authorities in the Mediterancan, succeeded in ranr-oniing him from the Dey, and brought him home to England/whore however he did not long survive his release, his constitution , having been

iivken by exposure and privations in he Doy's galleys.— News of the World.