The Ashburton Guardian.

VOL. XIV. NO. 3012

Ashburtois : Thursday, June 29, 1898,

PRICE: ONE PENNY

GAMBLING.

From The Otago Daily Times.

The extent to which the gambling spirit has permeated our community is, we fancy, hardly understood, although from time to time we have more of less emphatic revelations of the evilg which it has produced. There are those who b'ame the totalisator, and believe that an Act to abolish it would work wonders in purifying the atmo sphere ; but the upholders of this theory omit to take into consideration the fact that, where the totalisator has not been introduced, gambling is at least as rife as in the countries in which it is legalised. There are, however, „ strong reasons to be urged in support of the abolition of this gambling machine. On the present occasion we shall deal with some aspects of the gambling question which are of vital importance to this colony. It is generally agreed that the amount staked by individual* is not now v large as it used to be in the fifties and sixties—that era of great plungers in, England; and we believe that, com*' paring great things with small, in dividual gamblers in the colonies stake a somewhat smaller sum on a Bingle race now then used to be the case before the totalisator was legalised This advantage, if it be one, has, how ever, been, gained by a very great increase in the area over which the gambling spirit holds dominion, since, a very large number of a class who never went beyond a half-crown sweep on the racecourse in former days how habitually gamble through the totali sator, and with betting men who lay totalisator odds, in sums varying from h've to fifty pounds on every race . meeting throughout the whole colony. Possibly the public at large are not aware of the very complete organisa tion which exists through the colony for tempting young men to risk their money on the totalisator; but anyone who will take the trouble to watch wh»t goes on in Princes street, between Rattray street and High street, when there is a meeting of any importance in New Zealand or Australia, will have his eyes opened. We may mention here incidentally that the part of the Princes street pavement we have re ferred to is almost impassable for women on such occasions, and that the police might do more than they have done to abate the nuisance that exists there. What is going on is this, viz.—from a dozen to fifteen men with lists containing the names of the horses running on any particular day at, say Hawke's Bay or Wel lington, are soliciting their clients to stake a pound or any greater or less sum on some horse running at the meeting then being held. Not content, however, with the custom that can be got from regnlar clients and pas3ersby in the street-, the bookmakers visit certain offices, banks, and insurance companies where young men are em ployed. We could name several insti tutions where it is the rule for the majority of the clerks to have a few pounds on each race meeting held in the colony. The sum of money pub lished annually as passing through the totalisator is only a very small part indeed of the money staked at totali sator odds in the colony. Each of the bookmakers, it must be remembered, ia earning a livelihood by his trade, and living on the fact that the odds are always in the long run against the public backing the winner. At the Hawke's Bay meeting this week there will probably be £500 staked in the .. streets of Dunedin, and there are some 60 or 70 similar meetings in the course of the year. If we remember that what is happening here is being repeated in probably seven or eight towns in the colony, we shall begin to form something like a correct estimate of the extent to which the gambling spirit has seized hold of the community. The theory of the transaction is that the I bookmaker is a mere agent to put the backer's money on the machine on the course : but the practice, of course, is that the bookmaker pockets the backer's money and stands the risk of loss himself. Recent decisions by two judges have declared the transaction not illegal on the basis of the theory we have set out. Though money staked on a direct bet is irrecoverable at law, if the question of agency comes in, and the bookmaker does put the money on, or -says he does, the courts of law will force the contract to be «ried out, since the use of the <»• '"^tor is legal. ' totally -h the Legislature,by passing Although "4 Lotteries Act, swept the Gaming au Ming abominations away the gamu. ''consultations," which were known as • "*" the evils and could certainly modiij ""* faith, now so rife, we have very little $° indeed in the power of the law effectually repress by direct enactment what seems to be an ineradicable instinct of human nature, and we would rather look in other directions for the proper cure. Considering the tempta tions to dishonesty that gambling en genders, it would not be too much to call on the managers of some of our large financial and business institu tions to inquire into the habits of the staff of young men in their employ ment, and frame stern rules for re pressing the gambling propensities among those for whose welfare they are in some measure responsible. The clerk found betting with a bookmaker should be' heavily fined, and on the second offence dismissed from his employment, while the bank manager who traffics in the same way himself —and such cases are not unknown in the colony — should be similarly punished. Not many years ago there was a grave bank scandal in Sydney, and the institution concerned was much blamed for not knowing the habits of the manager. That is only, one. of many instances—only too many of them in our own colony — where ■■ .men's lives have been blasted and [ruintd through want of ofctok oa Mr



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Business Notices New Zealand InsaMce Company. BSTABLIS H"il) ' 1. _ 18 5 9 CAPITAL—ONE~MILLION. %HE PBEMIEB AND WEALTHIEST COLONIAL COMPANY, NOTED FOR PROMPTNESS AND LIBERALITY FINE AND MARINE RISKS. ALSO,- RISKS ON GROWING CROPS, THRESHING MACHINES, &0., ACCEPTED IT LOWEST TORRENT RATES MIhES & CO., LTD. AGENTS DEATH TO PARASITES ! I SHEEP TICK MAGNIFIED. FLUID |P|PiBBPPS POWDER DIP. H I 111 lAfcW DIP: (NON-POISONOUS.) flj^^^^^^^^^^^WMMlM^W (POISONOUS.) Vn< mmm recoaamded by Flock. 17 i«d m 4 recommended »y— Flock. W. Gerard, Canterbury ... 61,000 R. D. McLean, Hawke's Bay 58,000 M. O. Obbell, Canterbury ... 5,000 Walapoa Station, Gisborne ... 20,000 W. O. Rutherford, Amuri... 20,000 Ida Valley Station, Otago ... 30,000 G. W, Moßae, Amuri ... 19,000 Scottish and New Zealand In- A. Sthons, Marlborough ... 45,000 vestment Company, South' F. H. Richmond, Marlborough 13,000 land 17,000 Aid by owners of over 5,000,000 sheep And by many other well-known Flock in Rew Zealand, and many millions Owners, throoghoat the world. „_, ****** i«tr«*ue*d. l»rloe—(ir. caßks) S» 6d per I»riee—(in keg») ff Os per c-vrt. Gallon. 1 Cwt makes 1060 Gallons Dtp. -« » m. . . ,^^ ,4 » «. Another well-known Powder Dip ooits ha 1 Gallon Fl/utd makes 100 Gallons Dip. M much again. Compare the prices Chief A.fge>n±m— BLACKBURNE k CO , Ohristohuroh. distbict AQBNTS-Miles and Co., Ltd. Ashburton and Bakaia.



EXTRAORDINARY AND MOST Important Announcement. ASTOUNDING PUEOHASE OF Two Warehousemen's Entire Stocks. Utew season's Dress Fabrics. MANTLES, CLOAKS, AND ULSTERS, Also, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, AND LADIES' FELT HATS, AT Positively Nominal Prices. SPECIAL SALE NOW PROCEEDING. For Fuller Particulars See Windows, Showrooms, AND Bargain Tables. W. STRANGE & CO., OIIRrSTOHTTRO FT



I IF YOU LIKE NICE TEA ASK \YOUR GROCER FOR j NELSON cold&shvermEdals ■■B •■ y PURE INDIAN CHINA«CEYLTON T^SI I PROCURABLE I ■ ; — in - ;l DAVID THOMAS, (Late Mateon, Oox, »nd Oo.) >i UOTIONEIR, LAND, INSURANCE, jwd ESTATE AGENT, VALUATOR WOOL AND GRAIN BROKER, ASHBURTON. Loans Negotiated Weekly Sales of Live Stock—Tinwald and Ashbarton alternately Fortnightly Sales of Sheep Skins, Fat, Hides, etc., on FRIDAYS Sales of Wool throughout the season Grain Bought and Sold on Commission Clearing Sales as per arrangement^ AGENT FOB- Matson and 00., Christchurch • •_^L Colonial Investment Company, Dunedin National Mortgage Company, Christchurch Booth, McDonald, and Co., Christchurch White's Sheep Dip Brantford Reaper and Binder London and Lancashire Insurance Company Graham's Foot Rot Composition Redwood's Scaly Blight Specific Wright, Stephenson and Co., Dunedin Planet Jupiter Garden and FieJd Tools. D.3 fT^H 0 M A 8, [ASHBCJRTON. i Grass Seed Cleaning*. Having Erected (regardless of cost) one of the Best Grass Seed Cleaning Plants in Canterbury, I am now prepared to CLEAN RYKGRAS3 [a« it ought to be done at Reasonable Rates. D, Thomas, ASHBURTON. I am a Cash Purchaser OF WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYEGB ASS, ETC, INILARGE OR SMALL-QUANTITIES. , David Thomas, ASHBURTON —-x—• ASHBUKTON SKIN SALES. 1 shall hold;a fortnightly sale of sheepskins, if\n, mo t TALLOW, &0-, throughout the aeaaon, starting from* FEIDAY, JUNE 23, 1893. D. TbOlD^g, Ashburtoc



PLOUGH SHAKES. 'TTT E ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY B 4 OTH HORNSBY'S AND RANSOMES' AT PRICES HITHERTO UNHEARD OF IN ASHBURION, Being la direct oommnnioation with the Makers, and having received large sbipiaernto from both makers. COENSAOKS (FULL SIZE AND FULL WEIGHT) AT LOWEST CURRENT PRICES, AND . Barbojir'B Best Five-ply Twine MAY 188 OBTAINED AT OUR STORES. WHEAT, WHEAT. WHJ3AT OATS. * OATS. BARLETc. AND OTHER PRODUCE. WE IRE PROMPT CASH BUYERS of aU Sorts of PRODUCE at Marke Prices, and are prepared to Store Grain on Far mars' acoouut, and to make Advance If required without Commission. MILES &~ CO. LTIK j |A.sHt»nrlon iind R^kala.



Business Notices. j ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUILD ING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Offices : Taxcbeb Street, Asubckton. riiO Encourage the saving of small sums JL the Society will take MONEY ON DEPOSIT In sums of One Pound and upwards, In terest 5 per cent on the following condi tions :-=■* Suras of One Found and Bpwarls received on Deposit, and Interest will be allowed on every complete Pound deposited, to be reckoned from the day on which » oomplete Pound shall have been deposited, up to the day on when the money shall be withdrawn, ▲ Depositor may withdraw the whole or part of che sum deposited, but not in less sums than One Pound, except when closing the aocount. Deposits taken for 3 months at 5 per cent »> »• * t» o« „ for longer periods at 6  For particulan apply EDWD. STEPHENS, Manager. Henry Zander. I BEG to intimate that I have iuat Landed a Large and Varied Stock of ovwi ainim crows «r^T^ HOLLIS' BEST MAKES. Single and Double Barrel, Breech and Muzzle Loading. WELL WOBTH INSPECTION. Revolvers , Hevolv^r* AMMUNITION AMMUNITION Cartridges Cartridge Cases Caps Shot C and H Powder Smokeless Powder Flasks Belts Recappers Wads Punches Loader etc. etc.



I AM NOW SELLING, A.T CHRISTOHURCH PRICES, fit ©Yes and Ranges MADE BY MESSRS SCOTT BROS., for whose Goods I am Agent for the Ashburton Covnty.



Hornsby's and Ransome's Pbugh staartf air BEDUCED PRICES. &t*ndards and Fencing Wire »t REDUCED PRICES. Ironmongery, China, and Glassware to all their Branches. Groceries and Provisions, Wines and Spirits of every description.



HENRY ZANDER, GENERAL MERCHANT AND DIRECT IMPORTER. —AGENT FOR- Sun Fire Insurance Company Oanton Marine Insurance Company Vnatralian Mntual Vrovidei«rt Kocie^y jj/wr Zealand and Australian S.S. Co. J .^* y°*d aod Oo-



GRAT^ T & WOOi STORES, WEST STREET, ASHBURI\?^ # GRAIN MEROHANT, SHIPPING, FINANCIAL & COMMISSION | AGENT, &o. CASH PURCHASER Of WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS RYEGKASS SEED, bto. COMMODIOUS STORAGE AT CURRENT RATES.



ALWAYS ON SALE— Cornsacks, Woolpacks, Twine, Super phosph&tes, Pearl-Guano, General Farm and Station Stores, Ac. Cape Barley, Grass, Clover, Turnip and other Seeds of the best quality, AT LOWEST OrTRRBNT PRICES. AGENT FOR THE New Zealand Loan and M rcantile Union Fire and Mrrine Insurance Company. Howard's Digging Ploughs- Cooper's Sheep Dip; | Sutherland's Manure, aco.



JOHN O. JECKSX'JBLL, In conjunction with tne mm^r iiakaib koav * xn. CAITIU t^EICT CO., MM. JOHN R BLAND, Auctioneer. Auctioneers, Wool Brokers, Land and Financial Agents, &c, ara prepared to transact Farm and Station Business on the moßt favorable terms. W k OOI* WOOL, WOOL LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES HADE AOAIHBT ENSUING CLIPS. ' STo Commission oh Advances, and at the . LOWKST OURHENT RATBW OF rjrnrßjsT