Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 29 July 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

• ~ ■ The sad experience of the old lady who recently drew her bank balance in sovereigns and deposited it in her garden, where she was unable to find again, reminds us of an incident in |W early digging, era. In a rising provincial town there was a character named Jim Pennington, waggoner and dealer, who in the early fifties made money freely. His wife, too, had a wide reputation, and there were few interesting events in the neighbourhood at which her presence was not invoked. The pair gathered gear, but Jim had a horror of banks. As soon as he received a cheque he hashed it into sovereigns, and these he* deposited in an old three-legged iron pot. For greater safety, when this receptacle was well filled, he buried it one night at the bottom of his- back yard. Some time afterwards, desiring to pay for a farm he had purchased, he tried to recover his deposit. Forgetting the exact spot, he dug away for about half a day without finding it, in an agony olf and with big drops of sweat rolling off him. He contded his diflßculty to a youthful eignbour, who suggested that, perhaps, he had not dug deep enough. Jp, |mk Xed's advice, and soon came upon his pot. When he got it to the surface and took off the lid, tne sovereigns were all brown and dirty- from the mould and the rust of the pot. On seeing this, Jim burst out in'-an agonising tone; " Oh my