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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 733, 2 April 1881, Page 2

It is stated by Mr R. H. Hill, supi' teudant of the operative department of th Royal Mint, that the purchase of dii adhering to gold costs no less than 131 per I,ooo,ooosovereigns, and. £684 per 2,000.000 half-sovereigns. The delicate calculation, it is said, was made by washing coin, which proved that the loss of weight on 1000 sovereigns was 0.080z,,and 0.43 on 1000 half-sovereigns*

Reminiscences of wfiLunuioN.—ln the year 1845 a worthy citizen pioaded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-tres , to Te Aro Plat bsing in search of the Bar-' veyr's opeg which had been driven in at the comer of what is notf iCuba and Dixon streets, Upon this spot was erected a small t '. house, in which a very 'successful drapery business was carried on by two ladies of ■ remarkable -talent and energy, who havoj long since retired from the scene' to the 1 n( of their birth— • ' • "Lando»the mountain.aud the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood.' • In the year 1866 it passed into the bands of i Mb Jamrs Surra, the present proprietor, who gm to tho premises the appropriaU