YOUNG, Sole Agent for Wellington,



Sweeps 15 £ls prizes 160 £lO prizes 100 £5 prizes SPORTING NEWS. £I,OOO. —320 Cash Prizes. FIFTH GRAND HAMBURG DRAWING IS NOW OPEN 1 npHB Four previous Drawing a were filled, JL and ail applications that came too late for the Fourth will be registered in this Draw -s°Tbo Fifth Grand Drawing ior £4,000 will close the end of October, and the Sixth Draw ing will open on the Ist November. This Fifth Grand Drawing will consist of 320 money prizes, amounting to £4,000, sub scribed by 8000 members at 10s each. The various money prizes will be distributed ns follows : 1 £3OO prize 10 £3O prizes 1 *2OO prize 15 £25 prizes 1 £IOO prize 15 £2O prizes 2 £SO prizes Total amount, £4,000. 320 money prizes. The Grand principle of these Hamburg Drawings is that a purchaser of 25 Programmes i« guaranteed a Prize, and the chances are in favor of the investor drawing a large prize, as there are 220 large prizes to 100 email ones. To an investor of £2 the chances are only 6 to 1 against him draw ing a prize, and the Head Prize or any other may be drawn by an Investor of 10s, Head this Carefully, —ln Boaz’s Grand Hamburg Drawing* the greatest odds are only 25 to 1 against an investor of 10s drawing a prize. But carefully note some of the Horae Consultations on the Melbourne Cup, advertis ing 20,000 members at 10s each, equal to £IO,OOO, The Cup gives 133 nominations, so that the odds are over 150 to 1 against an in vestor drawing a horte. Now take the Cash Prizes drawn at the same time, and calculate the odds ; you will find in each of the Cash awards that the odds vary from 200 to 5000 to 1 against an investor drawing a Cash Prize. The whole 20,000 marbles are advertised to be replaced for each Drawing of the Cash Prizes, which gives the enormous odds against in vestor*. The Company would simply ask in vestors to calculate the odds before placing their investments in any horse consultation ; and the Company would not presume to toll the public that they have a number of chances and can win a numbsr of prizes for a single in vestment of 10a. 