BURNING BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 310, 28 October 1880, Page 2

BURNING BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

Once a week,.says the ‘ Tatler, the contents of ninety boxes—the note# paid by tie Bank of England issued* in the corresponding week five years ago—are emptfed into a dirge kiln. Fire ia supplied, and as soon as it is seen that the mass is well alight, the doors are cio*ed. By the next morning the paper, which represented many hundreds of thousands of pounds, is a mass of ash and dust, ready for the dustman to cart sway. Now and then, however, a curiosity is saved from the flames. One such is shown in the shape of a ‘ed July. 1736, and presented on the

\ March, 1847— clean and in good 'JV. lion. Had the owner of this y “ his money to the exchangers, preserva. a secre t pocket his heirs note “ put • ‘ved it with usury to the instead, of.mtu over L6>CPO< An would have irecei. happened at the * Vet of a. little -,£ t . A bank I, we curious caa. f 0 f, r L2O, evt ni. Christmas <ve nresenteil tans nil , r L26j and - P r * post Bill tv ber, 17.52, were . the dated Decerns yj a d these doc on that day. mpound interest, been invested at co. . would; have- hfcv value -*£ the former vof Hie-second Ll 1,132 14» anu LB, 906 3a ll£d.