VICTORIAN GAMBLING BILL.
ALMOST A TRAGEDY.
A DRASTIC MEASURE*
Melbourne, Octo'oer jVf. Cabinet has adopted a dumber o£ Amendments to the Garbling Bill, The circulation of -JH Australian newspapers containing, advertisements or information regarding 'otteries is prohibited, and the number, of racing days on any course is limited to sixteen annually at the outside.
The amendments do not contain! any oxemption of a racecourse, so that as the Bill stands only permission ■to bet on a racecourse is gives at common law*
LOADED PEARIFLE AMONG MAIL MATTER. Received 25th, i. lO a.m., Sydney, October 24. j Ad extraordinary incident occurred in the local Tost Office. Mail matter included a pea rifle which went off, and one of the officials had a nar-. row escapo.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19061025.2.23.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81873, 25 October 1906, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124VICTORIAN GAMBLING BILL. ALMOST A TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81873, 25 October 1906, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in