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Clutha Leader, Volume XXIX, Issue 1676, 16 January 1903, Page 7

Customer—l'll give you five shillings for that book. That's every penny it's worth. Shopman—l ' Customer (interrupting)— Five shillings, or nothing. Shopman Very well, sir. Thanks. Cash! I was trying to say that the retail price of the book was three-and-nine, but jou wouldn't allow me to speak.'

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has almost every year to ask Parliament for f» grant to repair the waste of the gold coinage. In 1899 this loss amounted to about L2OCO. The mere transit of a box of gold coin from the Bank of England to Edinburgh or Dublin entails an appreciable loss of weight by the coins rubbing one against another. If this is so when the coin is cartfully packed, how much greater must the wear be in the rush and bustle of business, when money is roughly thrown from till to counter and back again, and subject to constant friction in purses and pockets Where does all the gold and silver go to ? One might expect a Lombard Street dust cart to have mdre gold in it than many a gold mine floated with a most entrancing prospectus.