CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 461, 25 May 1899, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

One of the Stratford hotels, it is reported, is likely to change hands.

The Kapanga Hotel, Taranaki, has changed hands, Mr Farquhar having sold his interest to Mr Avery.

Mr Charley McLean is shortly retiring from the Occidental Hotel, Napier. The new proprietor is Mr J. C. Mason.

Mr George Glassford will apply, at the next meeting of the Napier Licensing Committee, for a license to sell New Zealand wines.

Mr Benjamin Burland, late of Coker’s Hotel, Christchurch, has taken over the Grange Hotel, Akaroa.

The Papanui Hotel is in the hands of Mr W. A. Lawrence, who spares no effort to make visitors feel at home.

The Glen Var Wine Company will, at the next meeting of the Licensing Committee, apply for a license to sell New Zealand wines at the Glen Var Bodega, Queen Street.

The license of the Port Ahuriri Hotel, Napier, will shortly bo transferred from Mr Alexander Keen to Mr Charles Martin Chamberlyne McCabe.

The sale of privileges for the Tahuna Park Trotting Club’s meeting resulted in fair prices being secured. For the right to sell liquor Mr J. Laffey paid £3l. George Hamilton, who has just retired from Ward and Co.’s employ after twenty-five years service as a carter, will receive £1 a week for life from the firm.

Mr Tommy Taylor. M.H.R., says that Taranaki is “ absolutely the most prosperous province in New Zealand.” I wonder what he thinks of the chances of carrying prohibition in the dairying district I

At the sale of privileges in connection with the Dunedin Jockey Club’s May Meeting, Mr A. Owen purchased the grandstand booth for the sum of £35. The outside booth was withdrawn, as the sum offered did not come up to the club’s reserve.

Mr Audus Raynes, proprietor of the Terminus Hotel, New Plymouth, has a replace advertisement in this issue. This popular house has been considerably extended and renovated during the past twelve months, and now offers unrivalled accommodation for the travelling public. Mr Raynes is the chairman of the Taranaki Licensed Victuallers’ Association.

Mr Nicholson, the landlord of the Okaiawa Hotel, Okoiawa, near Hawera, had rather a lively time of it recently. A party of about thirty Maoris visited the hotel, and after having had their tea, declined to part when asked for payment. Mr Nicholson was thrown on to the kitchen fire, but luckily managed to escape injury. Still, he was considerably knocked about by the time the police came on the scene and ejected the marauders.

Mr H. J. Julian, proprietor of the Inglewood Hotel, has a replace advertisement in this impression of the Review. This house has a large share of the trade of the thriving Taranaki town in which it is located, and the trade has increased so much of late that Mr Julian is compelled to make additional improvements to keep pace with the times.

Mr Tommy Taylor arrived at Onehunga by the Rotoiti on Saturday morning, and in the evening he addressed a large gathering at the Onehunga Public Hall. As usual, Mr Taylor was yery reckless in his statements. He attacked everybody having any connection with the Trade, and generally pleased his listeners, who, of course, were largely adherents of the prohibitionist crusade. Mr J. E. Taylor, of Mangere, was in the chair, and he took advantage of the occasion to make a gross attack on Mr H. S. Wardell, who has lately been acting as S.M. in Auckland.

Mr Tommy Taylor, M.H.R., who spoke at Onehunga on Saturday night, said some things that will meet with a vigorous reply. Here are two or three statements : He . said that in. Clutha they had reached a point six years ago, when they decided that they would no longer allow a particular set of men to carry on a particular business, and they closed it. Mr Taylor referred with feelings of satisfaction to the fact that they had “bagged” a bishop in Christchurch. It was a distinct gain to the movement for an Anglican bishop to say straight and plain that he was going for “no license.” The brewing trade was always spoken of as “ the” trade. It certainly was an unique trade. On the Sabbath other trades shut up in deference to the voice of the people that the seventh day should be kept holy, but, said Mr Taylor, “to-morrow the Trade will be defiant of public morality from Auckland to the Bluff almost without exception.” At a prohibition meeting, held on Sunday at Queen Street Wharf, Mr R. French moved the following resolution: — “That the recent decisions of Stipendiary Magistrate Wardell evidence bias towards the liquor traffic, and are inimical to the best interests of the law-abiding citizens of Auckland, as well at being very discouraging to the police in their efforts to honestly administer the licensing laws of the country. That the chairman of the Prohibition League forward the newspaper extracts referred to, together with the resolution, to the Right Bon. R. J. Seddoti, the requesting him to institute an inquiry into the matter.” Poor Mr Wardell seems to be catching it all round, I ut after all I don’t suppose he minds much. He has done his duty, and Mr French and his friends on the Wharf must pass some resolution or other.