Onk of the most popular Christinas excitements in Spain is tho State lottery Last year 50,000 tickets at £20 each were sold, the i ieliost aud the poorest people forming groups to purchase the tickets of tins national gambling. The highest prize (£100,000) has been wou by the War Minister—his wife, son', aides-de-camp, and offices of his staff (11 in all) having bought up the batch of tickets which secured him this piece of luck, The second prize (£Bo,OOOjhas fallen to the Marquis llevillagigodo, a grandee of the first class. This lottery, of which every ticket was sold and of which during the last four days before the drawing none could be had except at a heavy premium, produced a net profit of £23,000 for the treasury. The popular saying iu Spain is that any Government which attempted the suppression of bull fights or lotteries would causo a revolution, and the Christmas lottery is the most important one of the year the poorer people forming associations for {jiuxhiuiiug the Uckute,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2445, 13 March 1888, Page 2
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