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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1250, 18 January 1883, Page 2

A large number of forged bank-notes are in circalaticn in Sydney. They are imitations of Bank of New South Wales paper money, and are so cleverly executed as almost to defy detection. A well-known medical man of Detroit city city was called up by telephone the other day, when the following conversation took place:—"lt has come doctor.” The doctor thought he knew the voice, and wondering why he had not been sent for, shouted back. “Is it all right?” “It’s a very small pattern,” answered the voice, which was that of a woman, “ but it will do if we take pains.” The doctor caught the last words distinctly; “Give it Paregoric!” There was a mumbled discussion, which he could not hear, and then the voice called : “Is this Dr ?” “No; it’s D , of Fort street.” Then he heard a chorus of mirth, and was informed that he was in communication with a fashionable dressmaking house, and that it was a silk dress for Dr -’s wife, that he was the wrong man, which, under the circumstances, was rather a relief to the Fort street physician. At the North-East Coast Exhibition, at Tynemouth, an apparatus called a “stability indicator ”is shown. It is patented by Mr Alexander Taylor, and has for its object the testing of the initial stability and stow-