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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 6

The Parltymeijlaiy correspondent of the London- Times "writes:— Mr Hoggc, tho Liberal member , for fiait Edinburgh and a strong advocate of anii-gambling legislation, has had a strange encounter with a tapster. Speaking at J)r Clifford's P.ft.A. at Paddington on February 15, Mr Hogge challenged any of his hearers to test his point of view by '.following the selections of any one tip- j jster for a month and wagering one shilling on each horse. Ho offered to m'uitiply by 100 any money won ojrthe net transaction, and to give the amount to a. Paddinuton charity. An East London tipster" .accepted ' the challenge a day or two later. He ,%'avo 1 Mr Hogge during tho month which has just ended 198 selections for 173 race?. Thirtynine of these horses were winners, feyenty-nine losers, and fifty-five nonstarter's. The winm'ngs at. one shilling stako would have been £1 13s 9id, and .the losings £l 18s 3d. .There was therefore a net loss on the month of 4s s^d. Mr Hoqge got the selection for nothing. If he had been one of the tipster's, customers he would' have had m pay £12 for them. The racing world i* "not convinced by the result of th> challenge, and two newspapers have 'nfferpd to accept the same terms from Mr Hogge. He is, however, disinclined to undertake any more transactions of tho kind.

When General Sir lan Hamilton was entertained at ' Hamilton, m the Waikato, he statist that lii>. pi-o v abiy knew more about the liistory of liiim.'ton than the rest of Hie company imagined. When quite a boy of twelve or fourteen years of age, lie was one day walking with his father, when he was introduced to a very old soldier, with long, bushy hair grown into his whisker^,, and developing jnto a curl on each ehejk, who was most benignant, patting the speaker on the head and giving-. liim, half-a-crown. This was Colonel Hamiltun, after whom the town of Hamilton, New Zealand, derived its name. When he (General Hamilton) afterwards joined the 12th Suffolk Regiment, Colonel Hamilton was just concluding his term of. service with, the regiment. .On one' occasion, ' when the colonel had occasion to address some of his officers, his voice was so- loud and his manner so ferocious that the officer.; rushed from his . presence. He (the speaker) therefore learnfd that the colonel was lil>e a human tiger. He was a. man of. most f< rocious disposition, who had alternate turns of generosity and kindness and ferocity. "There is nothing like having a man as progenitor of a town," concluded the Heiiera], "who has real force of character."