MONTE CARLO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1885, 30 April 1889, Page 4

MONTE CARLO.

Monte Carlo is dull, owing to the slow play which has prevailed for the last fortnight. The only plunger worth naming during the past week has been th Grand Duke Peter, a nephew of the Czar. This young man by industriously betting the limit, managed to lose 1,000,000 francs in a ▼ery short time. Instead of being sorry, all the other Russians were glad for Lis mother is enormously rich and a notorious miser. Another less distinguished loser was a very unprepossessing old specimen of an exotic princess. '1 his lady carried her belief in fetishes to an extreme degree. She Bat [at the table with a largo rope, with which a murderer had been hanged, wound round her neck, and a bull’s horn under each arm, an idea which will probably be new to most gamblers. In spite of the rope and the bull’s bores, her last penny melted away. She made it uncomfortable for the quiet croupiers by gathering a meeting of the Casino and declaring that because she had been fleeced in the Panama Canal business it was no reason for her also being robbed of her money at the roulette table; that M. de Lesseps would certainly die of it, and so should she, after which she started away with the bull’s horns as her total assets.