SUNDAY GAMBLING.
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once pownced down t»poti the gamblers, who, on l>eing charged before a Magistrate, were sentenced each to pay a tine of \os. and costs. They acknowledged the fact vi an interesting race having taken place, and ab» admitted that the nwm-r ot the | wiwiiitw? splinter received a penny lr.»»«i I evwry hwr. In some respects this splinter r icing t* an improvement on horse racitig, j us it woafd be difficult, if not impossible, I to • nobble' a splinter."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 27, 23 May 1876, Page 3
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180SUNDAY GAMBLING. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 27, 23 May 1876, Page 3
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