CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 464, 15 June 1899, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

A replace advertisement setting forth the advantages of Mrs Hastie’s Feilding Hotel, appears in this issue. The house is centrally situated, and is replete with all modem conveniences. Mr C. C Miles notifies in another part of this impression that he has assumed the proprietorship of the Club Hotel, the leading commercial hotel in Palmerston North.

At the Christchurch licensing meeting eleven o’clock closing was again adopted, and it was resolved that hotel lights should be put out at that hour.

There are leading men in the progressive town of Feilding who are evidently alive to the interests of the town, judging by an enthusiastic anti-prohibition meeting that was held there at the beginning of the month. Mr William Abbott, of the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, who purchased the Grandstand Booth for the North New Zealand Grand National Meeting, was kept very busy during both days of the races.

The New Zealand Temperance Alliance has, through its secretary, announced that a comprehensive scheme has been drawn up for working the colony. The task of conversion will be commenced at the beginning of next month.

Mr J. Pettie, who owns some of the best troting horses in Canterbury, is now at the Terminus Hotel, opposite the railway station, Christchurch. The Terminus is one of the largest houses in the town.

At a meeting of the Wellington Suburbs Tlicensing Committee held on "Wednesday in last week, the owners of the Club Hotel, Kaiwarra, were informed that the license would not be renewed again unless a new bnilding should be erected.

The Licensed Victuallers’ Association of Canterbury, in electing its committee for the ensuing year, included several prominent men who hold responsible positions in the wholesale firms. The committee is already at work, and meetings will regularly. At the meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee held last week the police complained of the conduct of only one hotel, the Railway. The police stated that it was known that Sunday trading was carried on, but as there had been no conviction the committee granted the renewal of the license.

Mr John Neill, the newly-elected president of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers’ Association, has been licensee of the White Hart Hotel, in High Street, Christchurch, for some years. He is a popular man in the Trade, and may be relied upon to push forward the work of the Trade Association in Christchurch.

Mr C. P. Hulbert, an ex-mayor of Christchurch, has got a renewal of his license of the Marine, Hotel Sumner. For many years Mr Hulbert was a prominent figure in Christchurch public affairs, and since hi’s return from Auckland two years ago he has been at Sumner where he has made himself deservedly popular. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee all the applications for renewals and new licenses were granted. The police report was highly favorable, in one case only did they speak unfavorably. The S M., Mr Beetham, took occasion to congratulate the Trade on the conduct of their houses. He also said that there had been a noticeable diminution during the year in charges brought against proprietors of hotels. The proprietors of the Savoy Hotel, London, were recently fined for employing, page boys for a greater number of hours than allowed by the Shop Hours’ Act, The magistrate who heard the case decided that a hotel was a public house, but as counsel for the defence asked the magistrate to state a case for the High Court, and he consented, more will be heard of the matter. At nearly all the annual meetings of the licensing committees in Canterbury reference has been to the promptness with which the hotelkeepers carried out suggestions for improvement in fire escapes. This shows pretty clearly that the Trade are always prepared to carry out improvements to their houses with the least delay possible.

Just look at this ! Mr James Nelson, a widower, aged 71 years, died in Holy Trinity Church, Devonport, on Sunday last during the progress of the morning service. He fell suddenly forward as though in a fit, and was dead before he could be conveyed to another place. It does not say much for the church goers that the body was taken to a hotel rather than to one of their homes, or even the vicarage.—W airoa Bell.

A sporting publican, who is notorious for making catch bets, ‘‘fell in” the other day, says “ Javelin.” Two regular customers entered the hotel, and one of them having purposely turned the conversation on to the tricks of the trade, the landlord declared that he had made his bar business by always selling good stuff without adulteration. ‘‘Oh, you’ll do, Tom,” said the customer. “ I’ll bet you three drinks there’s a bottle or two in your bar that don’t contain what’s on the labels.” ‘‘Done! A fiver if you like,” said the landlord, vehemently. “ Oh, no, three drinks ’ll do,” said the other. “ Right you are, it’s a wager; now let’s see you pick ’em out,” responded the publican confidently. The other, quietly producing from his pocket two small medicine bottles, labelled respectively Quinine and Belladonna, but full of colorless liquid, said : “That’s pure water, old old chap, and mine’s whisky and soda, please .

At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee there were no complaints, and transfers were granted as follows:—Richardson’s Hotel, J. W. Matthews to Emily Helmling; Caversham, E. Ravenhill to Robert Bertie ; Terminus, E. Carroll to James Pettie; Gladstone, Bryan Flynn to Herbert William Piper; Queen’s, John Molloy to Bryan Flynn. The following renewals were granted:—John Manning, Wellington Hotel; John Neill, White Hart; Herbert William Piper, Gladstone ; Emily Helmling, Richardson’s Hotel; Bryan Flynn, Queen’s; Robert Alexander, City; John Carl, Royal; Annie Hall, Eastern ; Elizabeth Ann Quill, Lancaster Park ; Alfred John Lawrence,. Club; Alfred George Marshall, Royal George; Cecil Louisson, Hereford; Thomas B. Gaffney, New Zealander; Frank Hadrell, Market ; James Kennedy, Sandridge; William Burnip, Criterion; David Edmonds, Provincial; Samuel Spedding, Caledonian ; Frank Vale, Crown ; Harry Fleming, Occidental; James Hadfield, Coker’s; Francis Daire, Carlton; Thomas Broadway, Shades; Wm. James, Masonic; George Bon, Oxford; John Fox, Zetland Arms ; Richard Hadfield, Albion ; Fanny Shulties, White Swan ; Timothy Twomey, Grosvenor ; John Louis Carl, Empire ; Orton G. Bradley,‘Cafe de Paris ; James Pettie, Terminus; Gustaf H. Linstrom, Southern Cross; James Ashton, Imperial; Robert Bertie, Caversham; Charles Deal, Rotherfield ; Thomas Birch, Waltham Arms; William Charles Morgan, Forresters’ ; Harry E. Pearce, Prince of Wales Hotel; Emma A. Toomer, Star and Garter; Sophia A. Allen, Clarendon ; and G. P. Pearce, Railway Hotel.