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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 11

The ways of the Orient are strange. Three chattering Chinese were playing a game with dice. All became worked up to a high pitch of excitement, and five and ten pound notes were tossed into the ring. Presently one of them made a haul, and amidst much jabbering, 1m tucked some forty pounds' worth of notes in a wallet and placed it behind him. Among the onlookers were two negroes. Both spied the wallet and two pairs of brown eyes goggled unbelievingly. Then the smaller one crept forward, grasped the wallet, which ho handed to his companion, who streaked away. The Chinese gave one look at th<* fast disappearing figure, and with a wail of anguish set off in pursuit, leaving unattended some £50 on the ground. As they ran several shadowy figures emerged from the dusk. For a second the sounds of sharp dispute rent the evening air; then the shadowy figures vanished again in the dusk, leaving the patch where before had rested a tiny fortune as bare of money as the surrounding greensward.