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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XII
16/18

The Waterloo watch was recovered from a very decent fellow, a travelling dealer, to whom it had been sold: and many pieces of jewelry were traced up to London.

But Lady Louisa could not be induced to go up to London to identify them or testify.
DUBLIN, _Tuesday, March 6._--It is a curious fact, which I learned to-day from the Registrar-General, that the deposits in the Post-office Savings Banks have never diminished in Ireland since these banks were established.[21] These deposits are chiefly made, I understand, by the small tenants, who are less represented by the deposits in the General Savings Banks than are the shopkeepers and the cattle-drovers.

In the General Savings Banks the deposit line fluctuates more; though on the whole there has been a steady increase in these deposits also throughout Ireland.
Of the details of the dealings of the private banks it is very hard to get an accurate account.

One gentleman, the manager of a branch of one important bank, tells me that a great deal of money is made by usurers out of the tenants, by backing their small bills.

This practice goes back to the first establishment of banks in Ireland.


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