A LUCKY SKIPPER.
It is customary after the Christchurch Carnival week for many stories to be current of handsome winnings and pitiable losses made by racegoers, many of which are written off as decidedly fictitious (says an exchange). One, however, is vouched for and that is the win of a skipper ' of one of the Union Company’s coast- . al vessels. The mariner took a day ashore on the Cup Day, and although not supposed to be a “horsey” man had a “flutter” on the big race. He
took a big risk some people considered in plumping a cool hundred on Rouen, reckoned to be a rank outsider, but ; as soon as the race was run and the figures hoisted, the gallant skipper collected his “divvy,” tendered his resignation as a servant of the Union S.S. Co., and tripped to his home in Australia with a wad. of notes numbering well into four figures.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1896, 4 December 1923, Page 2
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153A LUCKY SKIPPER. King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1896, 4 December 1923, Page 2
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