— The facMhat Lord Annaly. who 1-oars | tho curious nickname of "Sloper," has beci unpointed a permanent Lord-in-WaiUns to tho King recalls (lie fact, that, tho fortunes '■ of the family were partly due to a stroke i of luck. The father of th« first peer had ■Mings with a city firm in State lottery tickets, and on one occasion tho firm sent Win by mistake a. number of whole tickets histoid of quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. As ho could not dispose of them ihoy were left-on his hands, and ho wrote to'say it must not..occur astiiin. hut meanwhile one °! l¥ ofren dhig tickets had drawn a prize I of£2<LOQQ, • " "I
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 5
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109Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 5
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