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New Zealand Tablet, 21 January 1915, Page 45

A Master ton visitor at Castlepoint states that a white porpoise lias been seen for some time past in the-neighborhood of what is Renown as 1 the rocks.’ He is of opinion that it is either ‘Pelorris Jack’ or at near relative. The oldest bank notes of which we have any knowledge were made in China long centuries ago, and were very similar to those in use all over the world to-day. They bore the name of the bank, the date of issue, the value in figures and words, and the signatures of the .bank officials. At the top of the notes was the following advice ; ‘ Produce all you can ■ spend with economy.’ The notes were . printed on paper made from mulberry leaves, and the ink used was of a blue color. The Chinese called this currency ‘ Flying money.’ Many of the bridges that still span the rivers in rural England were built by ‘ idle monks.' The Brothers of the Bridges’ have left their monuments of piety and social service, ‘ sermons in stones, hooks in the running brooks,' to a noisy age. Often a little oratory was built.halfway across the bridge, where a wayfarer could pause .a moment to breath© a prayer for his benefactors. A bridge built by the Brothers of the Bridges spans the Great Ouse at -St. Ives on the road trodden for centuries from Cambridge to Crowland Abbey. On a bridge at Wakefield a chapel calls a halt to pray for Clifford, who fell in the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Wakefield. The Brothers of the Bridges reminded the world that life was- but a span- , p P-; ‘ A narrow isthmus, 'twixt - two boundless .-seas, The past, the future, two eternities.’