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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 998, 12 November 1881, Page 2

Bank notes, as a rule (says a Ballarat paper) are not the most wholesome things in the world, but when their condition is such as one loathes contact with them, it is high time powers were vested in some one to compel their withdrawal from circulation for sanitary reasons alone. Lately we were shown a disgustingly filthy scrap of paner in the form of a £l-note, the smell of which was sufficient to cause a feeling of sickness to overtake one in handling it. Considering the prevalence just now in the sister Colony of one of the most infectious and horrible diseases, coupled with the fact that intercourse and exchange of this filthy paper currency takes place daily between Sydney and Victoria, it is rather to be wondered that the disease in question has not already made its appearance here. Writes JEgles : —A clergyman of the Church of England lately united in wedlock sweet Seventeen and sour Seventy. A few weeks afterwards the certificate of the marriage was found by the churchwardens in the collecting-plate when they counted the threepenny pieces of silver after service. The document was handed to the incumbent who was unable to understand this form of contribution to church maintenance. He made it his business to seek out the lately wedded bride, who innocently told him that she “ had changed her mind ” —that she “ didn’t like the man,” and “ didn’t mean to be his wife any more,” and so sent back the contract note !