25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 6

25 YEARS AGO

Days of the Bookmakers

(From "The Dominion," .September 2, 1910.) One of tlie bookmakers operating at the Wairarapa Hunt Club’s meeting at Clareville yesterday gave evidence of wishing to leave hurriedlj- after one of the races, but Detective Kemp and one of the constables who were present, detained the man. When it came to settling, however; the bookmaker was only able to return the actual money invested with him on the race. *

One hundred thousand Russian and German troops protected the railway line over which the train conveying the Tsar and Tsarina to Germany passed. A ring of troops surrounds Friedburg Castle, Hesse, where the Russian royal visitors are. Three Russians have been arrested there on suspicion of being terrorists. • At a meeting of the'Canadian Municipal Union, at Winnipeg, a report Was presented in which it was alleged that an organisation. headed by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, had all tlie principal city franchises and water power resources mapped, out for invasion. The scheme was described as n most formidable one. affecting the whole Canadian national lic’tage.

The French aeronautic commission suggests that in war time the ocean-going steamers used as auxiliary cruisers might carry aeroplanes, and thus prove valuable adjuncts in reconnaissance.