The Mining Graze In Auckland.
One of the most regretable features of the present mining boom (says "Mer- ' ' cutio" in the Auckland News) is the recklessness with which some persons are hazarding their own future prospects and those of their families on the haeard of the die. There are men in' this city who, by years of toil and sett-deniali > have obtained free homes, and ( whb are mortgaging them, and even giving bills of sale over their pianos, or giving promissory notes at heavy-rates of interest, to . raise .money to gamble ' in Iminihg shares. How men can thus peril /the ' comfort and happiness of those near and dear to them passes my comprehension. : If a man has a certain sum of money ~ which he can afford to stake or lose,* well i and eood, but such recklessness, will, in many cases, bring its own penalty. There are men now in Auckland .who mourn their loss of bouse, and borne, and comfort, jeopardised during the Gale* , donian boom, and who m their old, age are now facing an anpromisingfuture, and a cold, unsympathetic world. '' ;
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2
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183The Mining Graze In Auckland. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2
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