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■SYDNEY. Aiign-d 2d. a (oinmodtiy of which m:e »a«• lit:! -, pen; do would readily buy a *• ivi reign at a couple of skillings e bun. Ti only for the sake ol lidding it. But now that i!i!- s >vereii'n t - iir.ieiiev again in Sydney. a't'unri it i. not yet in general riivuk.li n as of old. there np|i“r rx t s he a pi a i re: <v mr the pmild not-*, dirty as it s -.met mgs is, hern it.- • of U.e tvt that it is m uv convenient to handle. Snvreigns vee jd.-ui il'ttl during the visit et Dm Ai’e-cic in Klee:. Even the sailors whose pockets wore lodging with Inc-.i found them awkward to carry an I readily r sng'.d them tor ooii s. 1 i iiuilre Is o! sovereigns tnund their wry, through til? sailors, into Syduev imtels. The licensee ol the slrategically-wul! situated hotel in Sydiion the oYciisinii of the fleet visit- - aptly nant”d “The First and Last,” .1 caught the sailors coming anil going down at the Quay—laid sovereigns literally raining upon him. Awkward to carry, inconvenient to handle, he wa ■ glad 1 : see them hack in the vaults I f the Lank. One day alone, he had t„ Lank .)!!:> of them. And l:e seemed to he ns happy as a sandboy to get rid of them, and to see the old notes passing over the bar once more. A few customers asked tor gold, just to take home to show the wife, Imi the general inclination was to avoid ii. One of Vie big hotels in Kilt street I k .YD bright sinning sovereigns

c it hot a c mole of days of the arrival of tko feet, but, in common with most of the gold that: passed over the 1.0. r ill thus'"' hectic days, they have b isnpl eared hack into ihe vaults. Shop-keepers eld saw a good deal ot 1!m sovereigns which went on their hanny ruum! when the licet was here, 1-ul of these golden tokens the general public did not. see a great deal. Here and there they had a brief circulation, hut tlie. pound note is still the l'.'.xhion:d.L‘ and popular form of cur-j-euev. The publicans, who saw most t,T tin* sovereigns in ein uluttoil during t lie Meet.'.-- visit, wetv giad W gel rid of them again.