 Currency, in contradistinction to Sterling, or those born in the mother country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster of the seventy-third regiment quartered here, - the pound currency being at that time inferior to the pound sterling.  Two Years in New South Wales - Page 46by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Ireland - 1827 - 204 pages
...Like the Straits of Gibraltar, there is an under and over current in the population of Australia: " Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by...paymaster of the seventy-third regiment quartered here, — the pound currency being at that time inferior to the pound sterling. Our Currency lads and... | |
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 404 pages
...young savages, at least ; the wild feeling inherent in them must have time to wear out. LETTER XXI. OUR colonial-born brethren are best known here by...contradistinction to Sterling, or those born in the mother-country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster of the seventy-third regiment... | |
 | 1827 - 624 pages
...Australian Athenians. It is pleasing to mark the infancy of nations as well as of individuals: — " Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by the name of Currency, in contradistinction to S/erling, or those born in the mother-country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - Australian languages - 1898 - 680 pages
...vol. ii. (Table of Contents) : " Letter XXI. — Currency ot Colonialtorn population." Ibid. p. 33 : " Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by the name of Currency, in contradistinction to St?r/itig; or those born in the mother-country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster... | |
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