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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2145, 21 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHEEP LAND 4000 ACRES SPLENDID COUNTRY. ©sie of the Finest Sheep Properties In the Poverty Bay. |FOR ONLY £2 PER ACRE | 4000 wn, the rest being unimproved. The country is well-wa er y esent a fair distance back, it is situated on what will be a main r . The owner is leaving the colony, and is prepares to accept £2 pci acie foi the stock to be taken at valuation. Though at run - Bona Bide Buyers can get full imfoimation from (B. G- B LOO RE, land & estate agent, GISBORNE.

SCOTSMAN WHO BEAT THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO. Only one man lias ever beaten the bank 'at Monte Carlo with a system. He was the young Scotsman, a mechanical engineer, who discovered the "Haws” in the various cylinders. He played for several years, some davs at one table and some days at another, and he almost invariably won. Those who followed Ins play could not discover Ins secret, lor he changed the numbers on which lie staked whenever he moved from one table to another. Before he lett he cave his game away, and spoilt it loi those who came after him. Being a mechanical expert, be knew that no cylinder with partitions as used lor roulette, could be made absolutely perfeet; the angle of some openings would be more likely to attract the rolling ball than others. In those davs the cylinders were fixed and peiminent in the centre of e Mi table, and by long and caivlul 'observation which' were the wulest openings m each cylinder. ami played those mum hers only. After his revelation, the cylinders were made moveab e Each one is taken out of the table at night, and no one knows into which table it will be placed next morning.

Witdh-iua.il (discovering a burglai in bho act of opening a ibank sate): “Hct’d on! What are you doing t/herc Burglar: “Don’t make •suoli a row, ole! man. I only want to see it my deposit iis all nybt. 'Nobody can trust Jus banker nowadays.

Young Man : “What do you think of Brown? indignant Gentleman: Brown, sir, he . is one of those people itihat smack you on ithe hack before your face and hit you in; the eye behind your back. Ugh!”

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