BACCARAT.
0 Professor Gold win Stn'th, writing to a Now York weekly, eayd : "Gambling shatters the character more, perhaps, than any other vice, even than drinking, which, however, usua'ly goes with it. Baccarat, 1 believe, is a game of chance, even more completely so than vUfjt et-xm. If so, playng baccarat is gamb ing in the worst sense of the term, especially if the stakes are high ; and the Biitish people ate right in protesting against it cuntinually played by lbs Heir to the Throne."
The Hawera Star Bays : " It is the rule now to eee from 50 to 100 boxeg of batter at the Hawera station, awaiting carriage to Wellington by e&<ih mail train, 1 '
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7505, 28 October 1892, Page 4
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