AUSTRALIAN WELSHERS.
■The outside books had a gi eat knocks Caiilfield^on tl^elirst day's racing. An exchange says: — "I am told that the number of outeidc cash bookmakeis who, cleeinecl ib expedient v to '• vb£h auny and, catoh an e?u?ly train after Hales had won 'hid third race on Saturday was almost mipiecedi uted. Their ranks commenced to thin after Victoi Hugo's naiie. But m hen Busaco, who Mas backed down to five to' four, romped home- in the Hunfeis' Cup, there was no time for disguise. Books, stools, and em cases weie disc.iidcd, and rery sliort time was made in the race to the railway-station. One of ihe&e gentlemen narrowly escaped beinj? handed with his own strap ; hoifeted on his own petard, in fact. A crowd of creditor^, fjetting tiled of waiting for the 11101103% pulled the penciller otV his bo\', and imthe scullle very nearly throttled him with 1 ho. "strap of his satchel."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 6
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155AUSTRALIAN WELSHERS. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 6
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