RESPECTABLE SWEEPS.
Among the many huge sweepstakes for the Derby which, despite the keen eyes of the myrmidons of the law, are annually got up in England, is one which is confined to the members of the Stock Exchange. The drawer of the Derby winner netted £12,000 in return for £IOO expended on a ticket. The House of Commons sweep, it is said, allowed a first prize of £BOOO, while other smaller prizes, which were, nevertheless, small fortunes in themselves, were known to be in the market in circles where betting would, under its ordinary guise, be frowned out of court.
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Patea Mail, 2 August 1882, Page 3
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101RESPECTABLE SWEEPS. Patea Mail, 2 August 1882, Page 3
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