"TIED HOUSES."

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11320, 2 September 1899, Page 2

"TIED HOUSES."

New Zealand legislation of tbese days is i very like a fence whose posts are far ] between and not very deep in the ground, t The result is that an astute lawyer can * drive the proverbial coach and four ° through it without, metaphorically speak- n ing, a scratch on the horses. One notable c example of this is contained in our ° licensing legislation. "Tied" publichouses are illegal, and are supposed to be }' non-existent. But as a matter of fact i 1 there are few " free " houses. The evils j, of the " tied " system are that the licensee ii of an hotel must buy everything from one o brewer or merchant, and is obliged to a take whatever is supplied, often at exorbitant prices. In Hawke's Bay the bad f, results of the system are not apparent, o as there is a healthy rivalry between the competing brewers and merchants ?' to supply the best beer, wines, and spirits. {, Travellers continually remark that in this o: respect Hawke's Bay is better off than s< any part of New Zealand, or even Ans- & tralasia. But in other districts the sys- Jj tern leads to the retailing of inferior n . liquo« and to houses genorally conducted p< in an inferior way. How is the " tying " cl managed, seeing that an agreement bind- °' ing a licensee to deal with a specified brewer or merchant is illegal? It is m as simple as A.B.C. The lease sets out wl the rent at a certain figure per weefc. A \ But at the end is a olause which provides Pc

hat if the lessee purchases beer, wines, >r spirits from anyone but the lessor his •ent is thereby doubled. The British Soyal Commission on the licensing laws, vhich has just isauod majority and ninority reports, took a great deal of Jvidence as to the effect o£ the " tying " system. Both the majority and minority xmdeiun it unreservedly, and they are igreed upon a remedy. They recognised ;hat merely to declare "tied" houses ;o be illegal, as in New Zealand, would be futile, and oast about for iome more effectual way of arriving afc ;he desired result. The method they, suggest is the compulsory registration of all leases, and their production before the licensing authority. , That authority shall be the sole judge as to whether the terms ire such as to in any way " tie " a lessee, md if they decide in the affirmative the license cannot be granted. Given licensing benches anxious to enforce the lair — we are afraid that in some parts of New Zealand that is not always the case— this seems to us a practical way of overcoming the difficulty. It would not, perhaps, be always effectual, fora licensee over head and ears in debt to the lessor might by fear be compelled to deal with him alone. But it would meet the case where licensees are comparatively independent, and the result would be a general improvement, for the mail who was free would have the advantage of the competition of brewers and merohants for his custom, and to keep the custom of their houses lessors who managed to evade 'the law would have to supply equally good liquors, and see that their places were as well managed in all respects as those in competition with them. On the fourth page will be found cablegrams, letters to the editor, Parliamentary intelligence, "Bamblings" by "The Wanderer," our Hastings andDanevirka correspondents' communications,, and. cricket, hookey, and sporting news. The attention of readers is called to an article in our Supplement to-day entitled " Quackery in Dentistry," which will well repay perusal. Mr Napier Bell, C.8., was a passenger from Napier last night by the Elingamite en roitie to Sydney. Amongst the cargo on board the disabled steamer Waikato'isalarge quantity of rails and fittings consigned to the Railway Department. Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday : — " Strong south-east to east and south winds after 20 hours from now; glass fall ; tides increasing." We are informed that the alterations in the chancel of the Cathedral will be completed to-day, and that the ladies will take their places in the choir stalls to-morrow. ■ The chess match arranged for to-night between the Napier and Palmerston Clubs has had to be adjourned, as the l&tter club find they cannot muster a team at liberty for this evening. The annual meeting of the Eivals Cricket Club will be held at the Cafg on Monday- evening at 8 o'clock. All members and intending members are requested to muster in full force. Buapehu was in active eruption on Tuesday, but apparently gave out smoke only. Ngaruhoe also displayed an unusual quantity of steam. It is nearly three years since Buapehu showed activity. Mrs Morley, relict of the late Mr G-. P. Morley, passed away at her residence, Edwarde3-street, yesterday morning.'' Deceased, who was in her seventy-second year, was a very old resident of Napier and highly respected. Messrs Dinwiddie, Walker and Co. are the accepted tenderers for printing the rolls for the Napier electoral district. The rolls, are to be finished this month, so that persons wishing to enrol should register their applications at once. At the statutory meeting of the Borough Council yesterday authority was given to the Mayor and Cra. Cranby and Dinwiddie to sign the burgess rolls, on which the total number of voters now is 2137, against 670 on the previous rolls. The junior representative football match Wairarapa v. Hawke's Bay will be played at Farndon Park this afternoon. Attention is drawn to the alteration in the running of the speoial train, which will leave at 2.20 p.m. instead of 2-25 as formerly. A correspondent of the Southland Times suggests that Mr Thomas Green, of Gore, is to be called to the Upper House; and that his resignation of his position aa Government Valuator was necessary to avoid disqualification for the more, distinguished position. The attention of farmers and horseowners is directed to an advertisement setting forth the merits of Nioholson's bot worm remedy, a preparation which has already gained many testimonials regarding its effioaoy. Mr A. Ecoles, Napier and Hastings, has been appointed ' agent for the remedy. The committee of the Napier Athenian are proposing to give a concert in aid of the funds of the institution on Wednesday next. A number of our leading amateurs have volunteered to assist, and their efforts Bhould Eeoure as pleasant an entertainment as any that have been given under the auspiceß of the Athenaeum in the past. At the close of the concert a very amusing and up-to-date little piece entitled "Sixes and Sevens " will be performed, Miss Nation and Mr Hughes taking the leading parts. On the Western Spit school (Miss Magill, mistress) Mr Hill reports as follows : — 801 l 36, present 36. This school presented 21 pupils in the three lower standards, and all of them have beep marked by me as passed. The majority of passes are strong, but more attention should be paid to composition and geography in Standard 111., and in all olasses the enunciation during reading is defective, In all other respeots the pupils have passed a good examination. The style of the work throughout is very satisfactory. The last Catholic social of the season will be held in the Theatre Boyal next Wednesday evening, for which an attractive programme has been prepared, comprising songs, recitations, step'dances, and musical items. The following will assist: — Mrs fates, Miss Halpin, Miss King, Messrs C. Eagar, T. Slade, W. Simpson, H. Bear, J. M'Knight, F. Elmea, A. Eenouf, and Cassey. Those who do not care for dancing may spend a pleasant evening by patronising the circle. Miss Henn's band will supply the music A strong committee has been formed to carry out the arrangements. Experts believe that ere long New Zealand will export prize dogs to England, just as it has exported a Carbine, a Wainku, and a Multiform. Nor is this at all improbable, since a dog can be shipped to the Old Country for something under £10, and in England the money paid for dogs is simply enormous. An Airedale terrier, Master Clonnel, was sold for upwards of .£SOO, and a wire-haired fox terrier for a like amount. No less than £1400 was actually paid for Southport Perfection, the finest collie overseen. Numbers of bull-dogs, collies, and fox terriers fetch £200 to £300 apiece, so that the inducement to send dogs of good quality is certainly very great. All that is needed is a clean pedigree and high, quality. — Post. Speaking at Patea Captain Russell said it was nonsense for any man or body of men to say they were going to formulate any hard and fast polioy before they knew what the financial position of the colony really was. They had also to be guided by popular opinion, and must ripen a polioy by degrees. All they could hope to do would be to guide public opinion. They could no more stem the cyclone of publio opinion than Captain Edwin could prevent the storms he prognosticates. They had seen the barometer rißing, and that betokened fair weather coming, and they therefore ventured to prediot a change in favor of the Opposition, and expected to be returned to the House afc next eleotion with a majority sufficient to enable them to obtain and hold the reins of Government. Our Waipawa correspondent, writing last evening, says :— Mr D. Mundell came in this forenoon and informed the police that James Wilks, a well-known old identity, was dying on the roadside lead* ing to his place at Half-moon Farm, in consequence of having laid out in the rain %\l night. There were indications of his having been drinking. Constable Carr, accompanied by Dr. Boss, went out and Found him lying near a creek about 60 jhaina from his own place, and on the ibbotsford run. He was quite unconscious, froth oozing from his mouth, and bis olothes sodden with wet from remaining out all night in the rain. By means >f a knife his teeth were forced open and lome spirit administered, and he was then sarried half a mile to the place where the Tap was waiting. He was brought in to ;he Exohange Hotel, where he lies, still mconsoious, in front of a fire, while some tersons are trying to bring him round by hating and rubbing him, but ho Is lot expected to live over the night. Hp ias lived alone at Half-moon Farm for aany years. Many people are surprised at the rapid way |a ■hioh Dr. Pascali/s Coush Mix-tube sot* gent, Ecci.es, Chemist, Napier. For Bronohid Coughs take Wood* 6rwt eppefnlDt Cuo la ei and 9p 3d,

The departure from Napier of the Eev, George D. Cox, -who finishes a five years' ministry at the Baptist Chnroh to-morrow, ' will be generally regretted. Early in 1894 Mr Cox was invited to the pastorate of the Napior Church, which had been rendered vacant by the resignation of the Key. J. Farquharson Jones. During Mr ■ Cox's ministry, the Chhreh has prospered, and in 1895 had the honor of entertaining the Baptist tTnion.of New Zealand at its annual conference. Mr Cox has been ' president of the local Y.P.S.C.E. Union, acted upon*the committee formed to relieve sufferers by the flood two years ago, and was eleoted a member of the local sohool committee at the last contest. He has, during his ministry in Napior, made many friends, and has always taken a keen interest in temperance, evangelistic, ' and missionary work. We wish for him a ■career of great and far-reaching useful- • ness, and for the Church at Oamaru to which he is going a new era of prosperity under his ministry. Mr Cox will preach for the last time at'the services to-morrow in the Baptist Church, and on Wednesday evening' next a public meeting will be held to bid farewell to the reverend gentleman and family. Our Wellington correspondent writes : —"After one of the most dreary and profitless sessions on; record, the House is now getting within, measurable diatance of the end of tha- term.' . Then a mighty ■stampede will take place by members to their respective constituencies in order to lay their political laurel wreaths on the stage of their own little public halls, and Teoount to their admiring or disgusted electors the. events of the past session. After all there ■ will be very little to detail, for. beyond discussing financial statements, Marine. Commission reports, and Wrigg's Cross, very little actual business has" been accomplished. There is every indication that the discussion of the Marine .reports will provoke very Bultry passages-at-arms, and the Premier Kill have all his. work cut out to defend himself from • the charges which John Hutoheson will bring against his connection with the plot. Were it not for the consideration of this and the case of Wrigg'sNew Zealand Cross, Parliament would probably prorogue in the early part of September, but as it is, it will probably be some time during October. Time must be allowed for members to tour their constituencies and tell their followers the usual budget of balderdash, especially on the eve of a general and decidedly momentous election." '. The usual monthly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Highland Society was held - in the Foresters' Hall last evening. There was a good attendance of members and friends. Chieftain Malcolm Walker occupied the chair, and in the course of his remarks thanked the members for electing him to the honorable position of one of the chieftains to the society. Balance-sheets and complimentary tiokets were received from the Invercargill and Dunedin Gaelic Societies. The following qneations were submitted by Chieftain M'Kenzie :— What is the Gaelic population of Inverness, Ross, and Argyle? Whiah is the oldest Gaelic book or. MSS in existence? Answers to be lodged with the secretary and opened at the December meeting. The chairman intimated that the next monthly meeting would. take place on the show night, for the convenience of country members attending that gathering. A programme of country and other dances was gone through, Mr M'Donald sang a Gaelic song; duet, "Life's Dream is O'er, Mr King and Miss D'Authreau ; Miss M'Kaysang "Braw 'Johne Hielanman"; Mr M'Donald sang " True to the Last " ; Mr D. Sligh recited " Burns' Address to a Toung Friend"; Mr Allan M'Lean danced an exhibition fling. Mr Newboold (piano), Mr Yniil (flute), and Mr A. M'Lean (piccolo) supplied the music for the modern and country dances, and Piper Helm for the. Highland dance. That the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, Limited, whioh is a synonym for Nelsons, firmly believes in the futnre of Manchester as a market for Australasian produce was proved by the opening of the new cold air stores at Weaste (writes the Auckland Star's London correspondent). In 1891 Nelson and Co. secured the site in anticipation of the establishment of a line of steamships between Australasian ports and Melbourne. The line has not yet sprung into existence, but the C.C. and D. Co. has spent .£52,000 in erecting stores fitted with every modern appliance and has entered, into an arrangement with the Union Cold Storage Company, of Manchester, for the utilisation of the buildings. The stores cover an area of 3000 square yards, have 400,000 cubic feet of refrigerated space,- and will therefore bold many carcases of sheep as well as other produce. All the maohinery is duplicated, and two electric lights are fitted in the stores. Sir Montague Nelson made the opening of the stores the occasion for a little festivity, and on his invitation a largo party, after takiDg a trip on the canal, and inspecting the Btores, sat down to luncheon there. The Hon. J. G. Ward responded to the toast of the Australasian colonies. He drew attention to the great possibilities of trade between England and Australasia, and urged that. this trade should be developed by the Imperial federation and the adoption of preferential rate 3 between the Mother Country and her colonies. The Napier Board of High School Governors ■ met ' yesterday afternoon. Present — Messrs T. Tanner (in the chair), H. J. Twigg, C. H. Edwards, S. M'Lernon, Gr, H. Swan, Dr. Moore, and the secretary, the Rev. Dr. Sidey. The expenditure since last meeting was reported at .£507 18 a 6d ; bank balance credit, .£331 16s Bdr The secretary was instructed to take action to recover overdue fees. Mr A. W. Thomson, at present employed by the Wellington Education Board, was appointed junior house-master at a salary of £75 per annum. Miss Matthews reported that it was some years since the attendance at the Girls' Sohool had been so irregular. Mr Wood reported that during the term just closed progress had been somewhat retarded by siokneas amongst the day boarders. The fire escapes were now in a very satisfactory condition, the occupants of the dormitories being able to get out under a minute. Dr. Moore referred to the ' necessity of fire drill at the Girls' School, where no instruction had been given to the girls in this- drill Bince the resolution of the Board had been passed. It was resolved to ask Miss Matthews to report whether or not the Board's instructions had been carried out, and if 'not, to explain reasons why. The lire inspector is to be asked to report on the water supply available for fire prevention at the High Sohools, Messrs Cornford, Edwards, Tanner, and Dr. Moore to be a committee to carry out any recommendations made.— Mr T. Eowe, M.A,, Wellington, was re-appointed examiner of the schools 'at a fee of £20.— Vouchers amounting to £38 7s 7d were passed for payment. — It was decided to obtain a proper dux board for the Girls' School, Mr Edwards to supervise the work. The Board then adjourned. DB. PASOAIL'S CO GH MIXTURE will not only relieve that bad cough, but wil ipositively oure it. Sold in Bottles at Is 6d and 2s 6d. Sola agent, A. Eccles, Chemist, Napio and Hastings.. ECCtiEB' PHOTOGEAPHIC DBPAIITMENT,—Beceived this day, or Maori, n largo wsortmeut of Platino-Mnti I'apera, "Sylvio." P.0.P., "Knamino" Paper, &0., from the celebrated makers, Messbs Wellington and Wakd. Prices right. A. Eccies, Chemißt, Napier and Hastings. J. 8, WolBman'e Special Proprietary Medicine 3 —the Liver Mixture for bihuu^noss and indigestion, Dysentery Mixture, Neuralgia Mixture, Qainme and Iron Tonio; Wino, Wind Mixturo lor Infanta, Ac., Locouk's Hair Lotion, CorD faint, to., *o. The Ph-vrmicy, Hastings-street. — Aavt. DYEING and CLEANING by the Paten French process at Taylor and To'b, J. D. BsiASCO, Managor, Hustinsß-strcet. Imd'es' and Gontß' Clothing done by this process are a . evelo. tion, the color being ab.iolnt'ly fast. Feather Dressing a Speciality. KM Gloves, Shoes, &c, cleaned like new. A tailor in employed on the Premises for Kepairs. Special attention is given to Pressing, &c. All communications by Poit, Ac., punctually attended to. 40 J. D. BEIASCO. Umbrella Maker, Hastings street, has Ladios' Umbrellas from 2a 6.1, Gents' Ss M j real serviceable article*. Purchaso youi Umbrellas direc. from us and swe money. Br ns along your Old Umbrellas. We will tell you i they are worth re-covering ; not, will tak< hem as part payment for new ones. 401 The Hawke'B Buy Permanent Building anc Investment Society aro now prepared to advano money on mortgogo on freehold and leasaholi Maturities on the new reduced tablo3 of redemo tion payments us low as 5 per coot per annum whiah are lower than any other society in th oolony. Apply to the secretary, ,T. B. Fielder, a the Society's office, or Joshua Bonnett, Hosting: -Advt The Trading Stamp Company's Ticketß ca Only be obtained at one Ironmonger's Store i Ifapjer— from J. A. Fbtek, Hastings-street. DB PASOALT/S Couoh Mixture oure Agent— Eccleb, Chemist.