The times are certainly very bad m Now Zealand just now, and money exceptionally short. If any vt oof of this be wanting, just give a look at the total isator records of the day. In , the thrae, days at the Dunedin Races £34,313 were put through the machinewhich means that the proprietors netted £8,431 as commission on the various trut)Bactionß, and coming nearer home we find at the Hawera District Race Meeting £2007 put through on the day's sport, £200 " scooped up "by the rnnners ot the concern tor 5 hours work. Yes, money is very short, no doubt.— Exchange. Writes the Auckland Herald on the subject of the East arid, / West Coast Railway :—" Years will elapse, Sir Julius spending at the rate of a million every year on the East and West Coast Railway, before that line can return anything at nil. and, when it is completed, it will not, according to the most careful reports, give even working ex.penses.".- . .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1654, 10 March 1886, Page 4
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