DYING SENATOR'S VOTE.
SIR ROBERT HART.
MAKES GAMSJuTSTG A CHIME,
(Received 8.52 a.m.)
NEW YORK, June 12.
The Senate of New York State, by the casting vote of a dying senator, who was carried into the House, made gambling on racecourses in the State punishable by imprisonment.
On the last occasion that the bill was' before the Senate it was defeated on the casting vote of the Speaker, 25 voting for I lit and 25 against, there being only one senator absent. This senator, who supported the bill later, complained that while he was indulging in a game of poker Ms watch was put back several i hours, and before he discovered fae misItake the division had been taken. Governor Hughes, of New York State, who [has embarked on a tour of moral agita- | tion, strongly supported the bill, and ; secured the support of the country representatives.
1 RETURN TO ENGLAND. LONDON, June 12. Sir Robert Hart, who recently resigned the post of controller of the Imperial Customs of China, has returned to London after an absence of 54 years in the East.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 141, 13 June 1908, Page 5
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183DYING SENATOR'S VOTE. SIR ROBERT HART. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 141, 13 June 1908, Page 5
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