It takes three seconds for a cable message to cross the Atlantic. Cablo ©osts about £2OO a mile to lay, and tlje total amount existing at the bottom of the sea represents a value of £50,000,000. " I can't make out why I, who am so lucky at cards, should be .so infernally unfortunate backing horses/' "All! You forget, old sport,, you're not allowed to shuffle the horses!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10768, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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67Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 10768, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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