LADY SPECULATORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3718, 15 June 1883, Page 4

LADY SPECULATORS.

A Titusvillo correspondent of tho Buffalo Telegram writes:—" One of the curious features in the late rise in oil is the extent to which the ladies of Titusvillo have yielded to the temptation of acquiring wealth suddenly and have gone to speculation ou the Exchange. In the gallery your correspondent counted seventy-five of the fair sex watching the fluctuations as keenly as did the spectators and the brokers on the floor beneath. Half of this number wero reading note books on the railing, and a little shower of notes was continually dropping down into the hands of brokers below containing instructions for their guidance. There were fair young girls in silk and satin, whoso notes were entered with jewelled pencils on the daintiest of books ; hard worked shop girls, who eagerly pored over their business-like figures ; matronly ladies trying to look unconcerned, and droppingtheir orders as stealthily as possible, and here and there a broker's wife whose face showed a superior knowledge of trade, the least fortunate of all. These ladies were all respectable, many of them moving in the best society of the city. There has been for a long time much speculation among ladies here "on the quiet," but not until the past few days has it been so openly carried on. As near as could be ascertained, the gallery occupants to-day purchased about 25,000 barrels of oil, the most lucky speculator, the wife of a well-known broker, clearing .£l4O on her day's transactions."