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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 99, 6 August 1880, Page 2

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TTTT*-* NOTES SUPPOSED,TQ t BB „, • '.. FOWD.i ; ".'-;' Yesterday morning .Mr /F\ow«-, (Agenfc of the Bank oif New at Foxton), accompanied by Mr Bockstrow, visited the scene of the i

fire, for the purpose of searching for fo-iuj^f thJ^rnt notes. Mr Mace doM, tngefore determined Ti^^eir^h^iis prf^d' successful,^ lejiß^-we aie;iiQchnes-i» that opinion; •j^e%efitleiiien jaa^fed- after removg^^ejf&d;^ wa^s evideuti^lla *> qu<||ti*t^p^alcinedj paper $his waslS^raty tajcen up and gerifsly conveyed to town in a handkerchie^r«aad.- depositeu in the Bank. By the* courtesy of Mr. iter, m My&,im~jmiiitiißkto* see it. * * The * "papier * has evKteatiy not been burnt by actual contact with flame, but . has been calcined, or ;v " bafed^^r^^being y subjected'to' intenseT^e^.* * *A^*-"flife "^ligktesT?* touch i^> crumbles away into a dust, almost vtni^wlo^'^°K« t# the "stuff" is stouter than the rest. This will probate be some i rolls of room paper which were stored away on the premises, but there is a heap which in appeaYaiice is exactly like what one would expect to see a heap oi.nptes^subjected to an intense : baking.*- -fhe Xsialls eWctly. tliat of a Bank of New Zealand note doubled, and there are a succession of tiers rising equidistant one from the other, and either nine or ten in number. The calcined paper is extremely delicate, and taking, the whole appearance i (into consideration —size, thickness, : ■* Ac, besides the successive . foldings, or, as we may call them, tiers,— we : are. decidedly impressed with the ; idea that they represent the notes. The 'parcel is to"' be -sent 'to'the Wellington, office of the Bank, and steps will probably be taken to ascertain by scientific -aid if the bimdte^efeifed to factually is the notes left in the house. We trust the question will be satisfactorily solved; ' though from the 1 nature of the substance we are afraid great difficulty will be experienced in removing the parcel from Foxton to Wellington without destroying or at least weakening the possibility of recognition. '•..:-.; ,■-.:'_