LONG ODDS.

Thames Star, Volume xxx, Issue 8381, 26 June 1899, Page 4

LONG ODDS.

as under :•— * Ist Five Ist Five ■ iVonths Months 189) 1898 Increase Oz Oz Oz W Australia ... 547,842 38^942 157,900 V.'ctoria ...339 929 294,583 45,346 Queensland ... 364 895 341,971 22,924 N.S W.les ... 146,688 116,347 30,341 New Z aland ... 152,123 100,132 51,991 1,551,477 1,242,975 308,502 La 3(; year about 90 per cent, of the production was exported, while this year about 80 per cent, has been shipped. If the Randmin^s ere shut down in the event of war in the Trßrievaa), thf n it is apparent that the decand u£on the colonies wi!l be much greater tl;an it ie new. Even if the entire production ci' tho year wore withdrawn from the colonies, it is htirdly Jikely that we should feel the

loss, # * ♦

Mr Northcroft, S.M,, used rather a

striking illustration the other day when endeavouring to show the licensed victuallers at a Licensing meeting that they ought net to allow themselves to be tempted into a breach of the law for the sake of temporary gain. " You see," said he, " you have an important monopoly, and when a man comes along and wants you to break the law, you should look at it this way ; that he wants you to wager, or stake your interest to'the value of, say, £5000 or £600, as the case may be, against his sixpence. The odds, looking at it from a wagering point of view, are too long,"