SPORT AND THE SPEILER.

NZ Truth, Issue 57, 21 July 1906, Page 2

SPORT AND THE SPEILER.

A Tale of Trentham Races.

Trentham races, as usual, attracted to the /city a number of that class of the parasitical community known as the spieler r Only one of him, however, up till last Wednesday, found his wa> into the lockup. This person was Archibald Neville, who came a cropr per at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on the day m question, when a truly unsympathetic bench of beaks gave him three months' hard labor, what time he will have ample opportunity to reflect that the game of bunco-steering is not so pleasant after all. Archibald is an unfortunate cuss. Pour years ago he "did" a couple of months at Auckland under the Vag. After that, according to his own account, he turned dead square and worked as a navvy on various railway lines. He, amassed a fortune of £10, arid that tenner was his undoing. A few months ago, still according to his own account, he was paid his wages and the Hawke's Bay races happened about the same time. He endeavored to build up his shattered hopes at the races./ Having won a few pounds he thought that he was about to hecome a second Bob Seivier, but, alas and alack ! the next race meeting saw his hopes blasted. Misfortune still dogged him. Storieybroke and friendless, he was, with a number of others, nabbed at Napier as a "vag," and pleaded guilty. Archibald was convicted and discharged and warned to leave Napier, as quickly as possible. Trentham races were looming m the , distance. A friend owed him £4, which he got. He husbanded his resources and came to Wellington, where the tecs gave him the tip to. "git work." He promised to go to Fiji ■, where he would be Able to follow his profession of r horse-train-irig. But fate ordained otherwise; He '" didn't go to Fiji, but saw Trentham. Then ,the tecs saw him. Archie next.' saw the 'lie' ak, 'and now the Governor of Wellington Gaol will see him < daily for three months.