A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF BANE NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1568, 14 April 1887, Page 4

A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF BANE NOTES.

> A milleading and iusoouzate etory of the finding of a number of bank note* in Darlington haying appeared, the Northern Bobo publishes an authentic account of the affair. Mr J. Berrai, of Darlington, bought a cabinet at Mr B. A. Meioook’i id* room*, about two yeara ago for si. " Just about the time I bought it, 1 ha say*,’ I wai thrown from a 1 trap, and suffered from' oonounioa of the brain, and hare been ill einoe.’ The cabinet, after I bought ifc. wae put on one aide, unexamined, and owing to, xny illneie ,and other causes remained there until January of. this year. In January of tfaii year a gentleman came to me and wai anxious to buy a cabinet of the kind. ; I agreed to sell it to him for 10», and 'afterward! took it out of the corner where it had been itaridihg in order to dhit it; Is pulled out a drawer and discovered that it wai shorter than the hole into .which it fitted, and there wai a bundle of what t at flret took to be £6 notes inside. On taking them out 1 found there were two bundle*, one containing fourteen £IOO note* and the other twenty-six £IOO notes, all on the National; Provincial Bank; I did not jknow what to do with them for the beat, and at laet thought I would taka one. to the iNatibnel ProTinoial Bank, where I had hot t an account, end l where, infset, 1 Vad never' bean before. They asked me if I wished to change nots.andleaid ‘No; I wished to leave it for a few daya. That was on •Tuesday lastjapd it remained there until Thursday • night, 1 when Mr' Henderson; ' of ! BtooktoT>, came tomy house and asked if I had banked a note on Taeiday, and if I had any more.,,He' then; produced a diary belonging to a Mr Benson, ‘of London, which ’contained the numbers of 14 hotel lost ‘twenty yean ago. We compared them with jttiey were, the same. Of the other twentysix he laid'he knew nothing. Mr Henderion then hiked me to keep them till next iday.' On Friday morhingf the Bank sent for !me, and told ms the note was stopped. I told them I expeei.ad much, and on my Way horns I met Mr Henderson, We went to f Mr Watson’s office, and I banded over the fourteen'£loo notes and alto the twentysix £IOO notes.o Mr Henderson, then gays me a cheque for £lO. I did not ask him for anything, but he silted me what I would have. I told him thatwai for him to decide, We struck no' bargain, ar stated, I handed him the notes unconditionally.