THE BISHOP’S “TIP.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 4

THE BISHOP’S “TIP.”

One frequently hears wondrous stories of “tips,” but probably one of the most amusing is related by the Sydney “Telegraph,” as follows:—Amongst the innumerable “tips” received from occult sources for the- last Melbourne

Cup one is reported to have come through the medium of a well-known bishop, who, when addressing a meeting just before the race, happened to mention the name of the winner. He was speaking about the Balkans, and incidentally referred to the piastre, which is current coin in that region. Nothing, of course, was further from his thoughts at the time than the great Melbourne gambling carnival, yet the coincidence struck some of his hearers—so the story runs—as more than accidental. As Piastre was the name of a popular Cup horse, they concluded that it must have been the voice of Providence telling them that Piastre would win. They backed Piastre, therefore, and sure enough that horse did win. While this even is trumpeted all over the country, we hear nothing of the other supposedly providential tips that seemed quite as sound at the time, but. which proved bitterly delusive when the numbers went up.