City Hotel Keeping.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1889, 27 September 1886, Page 2

City Hotel Keeping.

To bay into a city hotel and straightway go' to the bad at the rate of £4O a week (or seven months end on, is certai* ly not a pleasant or profitable experience. Yet that is what a Wellington hptel keeper recently went through. Mr Robert Scott in February last the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel in Wei" lington. The had to tile in bankruptcy and so his creditors jpet to consider the position. And a very pretty position it was. According to the statement of the Official Assignee the takings in the hotel averaged £9O a week during the first seven mouths, while the weekly expenses were £136. This of course meant “ outrunning the constable ”at tbe pace ot £4O a week. We know a little shout hotels and can’t quite understand how it took £136 a week to ‘ run ’ the Duke of Edinburgh. Nor in truth, could the Officinl Assignee and the creditors quite make the thing out—only the money had been spent, m d had “gone where the wood bine twineth.” Curiously enough, a lot of •• sides of bacon " had also disappeared from the storeroom of tbe hotel, and no one could account for them. Mr Jellicoe soothed the creditors by remarking “ that Mr Scott wasn’t a born - hotelkieper,” and perhaps hadn't managed altogether perfectly. The creditor! gloomily assented to this doctrine and adjourned to enable the Official Assignee “ to look further into the estate,” to see if he could '.ud any money or the missing sides of bacon.