Can any Good Thing Come Gut of Nazareth?
Observer, Rōrahi 9, Putanga 551, 20 Hōngongoi 1889, Page 11
Mō tēnei niupepa
Can any Good Thing Come Gut of Nazareth?
Or, perhaps I should say can any good thing come out of a bench of Licensing Commissioners ? Had you asked Tom Cotter this question a few weeks ago, he would have unhesitatingly replied with a most emphatic negative ; but circumstances alter cases, you know, and the licensed victuallers' solicitor is now prepared to admit that Goldie, when not discoursing on Orangeism or Intemperance, is not such a bad sort after all. It must be a treat to see these quondam enemies strolling arm-in-arm along Lambton Quay, indulging in animated and friendly conversation. It is not, however, so very strange that these t»vo should be at one on the gas question. When Goldie is occupying the chair of a licensing bench, and Cotter is frantically, pleading before him the case of the poor distressed publicans of Auckland, cheap " gas " is plentiful, and we could not find two better men to fight our battle against the insidious encroachments of the Auckland Gas Company.
More power to them, and may the efforts of two such giants prove eminently successful.
Bobertson Brothers have made great alterations on their premises in Upper Symond- street, and have stocked^-them with' a and varied assortment of "goods." The Karangahape JRoad busihess is to' be carried on as before.
