d in general to the various coins of foreign
countries, which were current and in circulation. Barrington,
in his `History of New South Wales `(1802), gives a table of
such specie.

1824. Edward Curr, `Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land,'
p.5:

"Much of this paper-money is of the most trifling description.
To this is often added `payable in dollars at 5s. each.' Some
. . . make them payable in Colonial currency."

[p. 69, note]: "25s. currency is about equal to a sovereign."

1826. Act of Geo. IV., No. 3 (Van Diemen's Land):

"All Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes . . . as also all
Contracts and Agreements whatsoever which shall be drawn and
circulated or issued, or made and entered into, and shall be
therein expressed . . . to be payable in Currency, Current
Money, Spanish Dollars . . . shall be . . . Null and Void."

1862. Geo. Thos. Lloyd, `Thirty-three years in Tasmania and
Victoria,' p. 9:

"Every man in business . . . issued promissory notes, varying
in value from the sum of fourpence to twenty shillings, payable
on demand. These notes received the appellation of paper
currency. . . . The pound sterling represented twenty-five
shillings of the paper-money."

(2) Obsolete name for those colonially-born.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. ii.
(Table of Contents):

"Letter XXI.--<i>Currency</i> or <i>Colonial-born</i>
population."

Ibid. p. 33:

"Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by the name of
<i>Currency</i>, in contradistinction to <i>Sterling</i>, or
those born in the mother-country. The name was originally
given by a facetious paymaster of the 73rd Regiment quartered
here--the pound currency being at that time inferior to the
pound sterling."

1833. H. W. Parker, `Rise, Progress, and Present State of Van
Diemen's Land,' p. 18:

"The Currency lads, as the country born colonists in the
facetious nomenclature of the colony are called, in
contradistinction to those born in the mother country."

1840. Martin's `Colonial Magazine,' vol. iii. p. 35:

"Currency lady."

1849. J. P. Townsend, `Rambles in New South Wales,' p. 68:

"Whites born in the colony, who are also called `the currency';
and thus the `Currency Lass' is a favourite name for colonial
vessels." [And, it may be added, also of Hotels.]

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 6:

"A singular disinclination to finish any work completely, is a
strikin