Gentle Grafters.
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Cold Reception in T.I.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., Jan. 25.
LATELY, the town has been visited by a company of get-rich-quick artists from the west and south, who have been introducing some new ideas in gambling.
The local police staged a turn the other night which was not on the visi tors’ programme, and in consequence of a raid made in one section of the town the Magistrate held a levee next morn ing, when the exchequer benefited to the extent of £ 200 or so.
The coast steamer later took two of the fraternity away, to try their schemes on unsuspecting folk elsewhere.
Gentlemen of this type now find T.I. a very inhospitable place. The police of ficials are determined to keep the town clean of undesirables and, during the past couple of years, by raids and in other ways, have raised the morale of the town and assisted the citizens in getting rid of the unwanted element, a state of things on which they are to be congratulated.