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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1360, 25 September 1883, Page 4

=£220,000 To be distributed QN THE lB 83 To be run on November 6th. ALL PRIZES ! NO BLANKS f This Melbourne Tube Club desire to Inform the Sporting Public that they have m ade arrangements for holding a Mammoth Sweep on the forthcoming Melbourne Cup, which for novelty, fidelity, and advantage bar equal in Australia. Capital £20,000, in 20,000 £1 Sharts, First Horse £3,000 4 Przs £6OO X) Second Horse 1,000 8 Przs 250 2/> JO Third Horse 1,000 10 Przs 200 2/) 00 Starters (divide) 1,000 20 Przs 100 3X >OO Non-startci*s „ 1,000 Total 18/ 000 The remaining Lo,ooo will be employed by the Club in making a book on the Cup and other races, that is, laying and taking odds by a new system, the success of whick i has been practically proved, It is estimated that the profits accruing from this source will range from L 5.000 to LI 15,000, the whole of which, both capital and profits, will beet pally divided amongst subscribers who wer e unsuccessful in drawing either a horse or st prize in the Mammoth Sweep. Each subsci iber will be sure of obtaining a prize, be it great or small. The Promoters of the M. T. C. are well known sporting gentlemen, and guarantee the above to be a bona fide affai r in every particular. Ten per cent, commission i deducted from all winnings. Drawing to tak e place on October 28th. Results posted in smediately after. Subscribers who wish to ’he present will please notify us in time. Add 3d for reply and result. Address— THOMAS BENTLEY, Secfrj. 208 M. T. C. Melbourne. Fortuna’s aaa SWEEP. c&LjVVV On the Hawke’s Bay Guinea .s, Run October 9th. 33 NOMINATIONS 33 First Horse ... £5OO Second ... ... 150 Third 50 Starters ... ... 100 Non-starters ... 200 Programmes, £1 each, and 2d stamp for reply and result. All subscriptions to be sent either by P. 0.0. or cheques made payable to “ Fortuna,” or Bearer. Applications to be made early, as shares will be allotted when the requisite number are taken, and another list started. A committee will be appointed to allot shares. Address— FORTUNA, 245 Care of J. Thomas Wood, Hastings. £3,000! for 2s. 6d. £3,000! A COLOSSAL - FORTUNE For HALF-A-CROWN. The, • GREAT VICTORY "SWEEP on the MELBOURNE CUP, 1883, to berun on the 6th Nov. This Gigantic Sweep, by far the largest ever known in the colonies, is the property of a lona fide company with responsible directors. Capital £lO,OOO, divided into 80,000 shares of 2s fid each, also 1,000 prizes guaranteed and distributed as follows:— £ £ £ First Horse ... 3,000 20 Prizes 50...1,000 Second „ ... 1,000 40 „ 25...1,000 Third 500 100 „ 10...1,000 Starters divide 500 200 ~ 5...1,000 Non-Starters „ 250 750 „ 1... 750 Total.., 10,000 It will be seen by the foregoing that never before were such inducements offered to the public. One great effort reduces winning almost to a certainty. We give double the amount of prizes given by others, thus presenting a double chance of winning. We give the winner of the "Victory" £3,000 for his simple investment of half-a-crown. Such has not been attempted by any one else. We give nine tickets as an inducement to form clubs for a pound. But we cannot send less than two tickets to any single address. Send P.O. Order or bank notes. If you send stamps add exchange at the rate of one shilling in the pound. Should you send coin, please register the letter. Please send 3d extra for membership. The drawing will take place on the Ist November by a committee drawn impartially from the whole body. The result will be pested immediately and advertised. Tickets sent by return post. Write at once for prospectus—no charge.

Address “Victory,” Care of George Robertson, 94, Bourke Street, E, Next Opera House, Melbourne. “DACE INVESTIGATION 00MXv PANV’S DISCUSSION On the MELBOURNE CUP, to be run on November 6, 1883. Closes November 2,1883. 12,000 Members at 10s. 1.50 Pekfok.meks. I Cash Awards. First £1,600 1 oat £5O ... £3OO Second ... 800 JO at 30 ... 300 Third 400 |l5 at 10 ... 225 Starters ... 350 120 at 10 ... 200 Others ... 900 90 at 5 ... 450 £4,050 I £1,475 NOMINATION PRIZES : Winner. Second. Third. Ist Prz £lOO Ist Prize £75 Ist Prize £5O 2nd Prize 70 2nd Prize 50 2nd Prize 30 3rd Prize 50 3rd Prize 30 3rd Prize 20 £220 £155 £lOO EACH TICKET HAS NINE CHANCES. (To the holders 300 Prizes hL“ro ( 20 to 1. J Each member for every share names a horse, which will be written across the duplicates kept by the company. Those numbers having the winner written on them will be put together ; the First Three drawn will receive the Prizes as above. The same will be repeated with those having the second written on them ; and again also with those with the third, forming three distinct drawings, which will, of course, be drawn after the winners are declared. In the event of (in either of the three cases) only two members naming the placed horses, the three prizes will be divided between them : if only one (in either of the three cases) he will receive all three prizes due to which ever he named, Ist, 2nd, or 3rd. A subscriber holding say three shares, can name the one horse three times, or three different horses — one to each share. N.B.—Two Guineas (independent of the sweep) will be given to the member first naming the winner. Apply by letter (with stamps for replies) addressed— SIITBAD, care of Mr Bodley, Box 342, Post Office, Dunedin. Registered letters or telegrams not received. N.B. —A card of the nominations can be had by sending a stamped addressed envelope, 294