Ways of Living.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 375, 16 July 1903, Page 2

Ways of Living.

\- FORTUNES muM r MgEp. t f s*»£? TRANSPOR T was ft jttjd o& Southampton a fjjjj^ej^agiffi came forward to receive his wages- 3 * coaP itpmmer, jrouga and grimy-looking. To Him theXTaptain handed out the sum of .£l3 -Ivj. The man pushed the money back across the table.. 4 Keep it, Captain,' ho said, «to buy your wife and kide new hats with. I've made .£2,500 these two voyages.' tparfeotly :ttueLi man fessional gambler, who, like many others -of hirkiad, had nbippfMi in anyxjapacifcy in which be could be taken on in order to get a chance of gambling with the homecoming Tommies, and robbing them of As the captain of the ship in question -:saidj gambling igoesr on Aaf- and jnight between the.troop decks, and the ship's officers are unable to interfere as the men ate under their own officers. Gaps piled - with sovereigns are a common sight* Every passenger whom business takes at regular intervals, across, the, Atlantic knows the state of thin|s in the Em iking- hj todmh Poker is J "played froM ! breakfast I until bed time, and dozens of gamblers I travel backwards and forwards for the sole purpose of finding pigeons to pluck, Mr. Pierppnt Morgan recently » caught ; and exposed one of these gentry. ' 5 These gamblers frequently makß*is3so to .£I,OOO clear on a single voyage.:- The ' barefaced cheating that used to be com- - mon upon, the Atlantic passage is now a thing J of &epa?t. 'owing*tothe vigilance of the private detectives told off to put a ■fatoh on it. The swindlers have, how-"' ever, only changed the, scene of their. Operations to' steamers going 4b \r-teom the Klondike region,' '*'"' Last summer, ~$ miner, named was tried at Ssattie for ths -mutdei? of'one ,oi these gamblers, from him : %y unfair foaeWtfupwarda' M ( B airing the triali it came out- that among the uead gold-dust f and paper money. were found .to m 9 J&f u $ P| over .£2.060, probably all made weakß'at%ft.' si -'••■ **3 Bfl*w»T*W V swindlers,havetheluck,now and then to' find fortunes while afloat. D ..relicts are ~ occasionally picked,, up, which, contain' treasure wortnuaving;' "'" **ins*r® The captain of the whaler 'Silicon' brought into* New York* a year-, or two ago, a cargo of magnificent sealskins and other Arctic furs. These had been discovered aboard , a Russian ship of old-fashioned pattern ice off the west wast of Greenland. The vessel's log proved that she had -haejß-.fro_z.eji_ upland abandoned in #*e year 1848. The furs were in splendid . conditian, and were sold for upwards of -"-*lt*wifs pure curiosity *.ihat'took some memberfcW tiles crew ©f> the * Bruce, a British bartjoe; Aboard a derelict off the rWeai Cdast.of::Africa, fßrucp' was becalmed at thtftirae, and-as thfire was dp.jtheyj£bjpied their captain's, pefmiasion to-, explore an oldhulk. carried near K. ":£''■", \ ! Aboard her .they found.a, cargo of sherry. and port" in bottles, i bver^eßod#6ryi.P*There!waß.ssab're in the water-logged hold, but they had no divr A ing apparatus,.and .39,.were uaabje to get ThV steam a ifawler* was,, fishing in the North Sea near the Terschelling lightship on the last day of last year, when a floating fortune came her -wayv She sighted an-enormous, cylinder tossing...on the heavy .seas, anl on appVoaxSmnVit'foirhd' astee* caisson, *-.evln% raet longhand marked .Kiel XI. The trawler took it ig tow, and eventually bertfied i'armbntn" Harbour, where it was valued for salvage at £ 1,500 . Another trawler, on January 7th of the' present year, had a somewhat similar yslice ojfduekj. up her rjpt folf-, o*ste|id> had extraordinarily heavy eaptar a. It proved to be a trawl net of her own,which she 'Had-lost ■mbre' i thaff preArticles or considerable? value are 00-

casioßaliy .brought up in trawling nets in the North Sea, There is at present for sale in London a mammoth's-stuak eight feet lpn^,afd s -weigh|-|g which was brought up. in atrajWlnetby a Yarmoutfi-Hbdw* 'The'pftce'asked-is Another fighfrman is richer by MO > paid for a piece of amber, weighing lllbs. 14 ozi., which he fished up from the bottom off Lowestoft. The rjchest accidental find at sea made was by some poor sponge : ; div"ere'r who were gathering sponges off |P> e ''to'fhe surface. "*Tne ? lpohge was. foupd to be growing, on the ,m»r,ble,.»he'id of a fli-fe brpught 'n ,^bron"ze%tatuVol!' » ftdsrerf and several works,ing9ld*andsilv9»j ,. .$ « Ijfa '''' The 7 net "value 6£ " tnese, * treasures ja 9normoi|fr?aß|.tJj'ey l jbjelong to the Dest period of Greek art".' The site of ? fife? ! • meek from -^iohVltoy^weaMgafen been marked, and it ißsprobable-that an expedition.,wjll^,be,, sent to recover all the relics. ' Meantitrie, the sponge fishers b^ve i r,eeeiyed >;; e2iQ;fp j£ ,tfae^^Bd Vi , ! m