A Spieler Hunt.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 366, 19 October 1889, Page 3

A Spieler Hunt.

Or Thursday a bombshell was shot into the spieler camp, when Mr Finlay, the popular host of the Gisborne Hotel, got on the warpath, and the spielers were in a state of heiter-skelter all over the town, A number of the enterprising gentry eame to enjoy themselves in Gisborne during the progress of the race season, end in the dispensation of their patronage such a noted hostelry as the Gisborne was of course not forgotten. The misfortune was that the subsequent settlerpent of sooounis came within the region of forgetfulness, and this unhappy weakness of the intellectual powers was not consonant with Mr Finlay's Ideas of straight running. The Gisborne people have become a little bit ahy of these spieler characters, and the latter’s trade did not on this last occasion flourish as it has been known to do ip days tbqt are past, and consequently the rascals, being down in tfieif fuck, have had tq reso rt to extraordinary shifts, Mr F, was bunting about as active as k spanking colt, but when sharpers do pot want to pay a debt, the childish myth about putting salt on a bird's tail has a very fair application, Whenever he or Her Majesty's representative got in the proximity Of the fraternity there was a scatter like what lakes place when a hunter appears in a field Of rabbits. A young jockey fellow named Moore was pun to.esrth, *nd judgment tor £1 Obtained against him. He left the Court yow|ng that Mr F, would have to whistle for his money, tor he (the jock) would get aboard that sanguinary boat and they hadn't a man in Gisborne smart enough to catch him; but even this youth was taught a wrinkle, and when all the tun wae over the amount was ungracefully paid, besides the "ex's'' that had aocnmulated, Moore himself had been Victimised by soma of the ether visitors, who relieved him of a couple of pounds. Sergeant Bullen bad a regular city “Hs' r on," for the enterprising gentry having no other lambs to fleece, took to pilfering from one another, and when there was nothing else left to appropriate, steamer tickets and such trifles changed hands without regard to the wishes of those who had originally paid for them. This form of amusement was very entertaining to those who could enjoy the fun w>*bout themselves hMng victimised. It the rascals had only taken to throwing one another off the end of the breakwater pier the fun would have been greater, though there might have been a damper upon it it any of the scamps had managed to clamber whore again. The Iteamer's departure having been delayed, Mr Fjnlay had an advantage which the fraternity pad Mt reckoned upon, and by the time the post left yesterday, Mine Host was smiling triumphantly, from which it appears that be bad got the beet of it, while those for whom bo had proved to be too smart were seen shaking bauds with him on the wharf, and gating on demonstrative airs of merriment. Most of the gentry bid a glorious farewell to Gisborne, promising to visit us again when •e are a little bettor off. Gisborne people Imagine that immediately the whole crowd Hoar oat the place will be much better off,