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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 205, 6 October 1888, Page 3

Writing of some of those who have made easy fortunes in Melbourne our correspondent in that city states : —A man I know, who is supposed to be worth two hundred thousand if he ia worth a penny, told me that four years ago he had married on “ three ’bus tickets and a spare suit of clothes.” He began, without any funds, by getting land under offer for a speeded period in writing. Then he would seek out a purchaser at an advanced price. In one transaction he assured me he netted a profit of five thousand pounds without having outlayed a penny—and I believe him, knowing what I do of such things. This humorist boasts that he made his fortune out of three d’s, and on my asking what they were answered “Debts, dues, and demands.” He has invented! a new mode of advertising, which is to give racing trophies and establish races at the various courses, bearing the name of the particular estate he is interested in—an expensive but efficient mode of bringing the names of his enterprises before the public. A more enthusiastic advertiser than this gentleman I do not know, and he is fond of relating a story showing how you can get anything by advertising. “You see,” he says with gusto, “I was a thorough believer in it, and so when my wife came to me one morning and said the servant was leaving, I told her to put a notice in the paper for another. She asked me to do it, so I inserted an advertisement—‘ Wanted a girland by George, sir, the next morning I got up I found myself the happy father of one.” A successful trial was made oh the Toorak tramway line, Melbourne, a few days ago, of an electric tram motor. It travelled at the rate of 15 miles an hour, and gave every satisfaction.