Quite right! Dollars? Spanish dollars at that date? Helen Sent from my iPad > On 26 Jan 2015, at 11:13 am, "Carol Brill" <seebee.cazza@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Dear All > I just love this article and had to share it with you all - it shows just how early we were beginning to become the egalitarian society we have today. > " To the Editor of The Australian. > SIR, - What are some of the Colonists about? Do they forget the Anniversary of the Foundation of the Colony? I should like to see two or three hundred sit down to dinner to celebrate the day - not like last year, to have, ten or a dozen people, to the exclusion of those who could not afford ten dollars. Five dollars should be enough for a good dinner and a bottle of wine for each gentleman. Yours, &c., A LONDONER. - The Australian (Sydney, NSW ) 20 January 1830" > Happy Australia Day > Carol Brill. >