GAMBLING MANIA.
, (Per 6.5. Sierra at Auckland.) ' NICE (France), March 25. Never before has the mania for gambling reached such a, pitch on the Riviera. Nightly at baccarao at the Grand Circle the game is. for stakes as high as those ■ at Monte Carlo. To such proportions has j the fever risen that extensive arrange- [ ments are in progress for affording hosts of players vastly enlarged facilities next season. A magnificent new Casino' is building at Monte Carlo. Another splendid new gaming Casino is } to be erected here on the 1 Avenue Masseno, and a syndicate has also bought the beautiful Park Cuambrun, outside of Nice, where it is proposed to erect still another huge gambling house to rival that at Monte Carlo. At Cannes, too, a syndicate is busy constructing a palatial CaI sino. Rich Americans are contributing largely, though, involuntarily, , to the building of the new Casinos;
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Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 4
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