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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1419, 29 November 1886, Page 3

fICrSIiUDES OF GOLDMI 'I NO

In his Lawrence speech on Friday Sir Julies Vogel gave the following instances of tho vicissitudes of go'dmininsr speculations: —’i*l hea'd of a case in Welling-on where a gentlepian soma three or four months ago paitei with some 1200 "do Shares which ha hold in a certain quartz pompapy on the West Coast because 1 • Was tired of paying the calls. He pa'ted with the 12(H) for the am ill sum of 2C q . •ad the shares are now s-iTTiig at over £2 each.” He also told the following anecdote wh'ch he had read in the papes and which he regarded as too good not to be true A gentleman on the Pac fic slope was sailed upon by a friend, who was surprised to find his whole smdy ptpered With the scrip of a Mining Company On acquiring the meaning of this eccentricity, the gentleman told him that it was to perpetually remind him of his folly In invading in mining undertakings, with the vie* of preventing him doing he same thing again A few weeks eftsr i e called upon by his friend again, who