CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 526, 23 August 1900, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

Mr M, Lenuan has succeeded Mr W. B. J. Baker in'the Bridge Hotel, Kaukapakapa. The salary of the gaoler at Auckland is to be reduced to £3OO from £4OO. The sum of £5OO is placed upon the estimates, for the aid of Inebriate Homes. It is estimated that fines for sly grog-selling in the King Country have, from August 1896, to date, amounted to £1237 9s 9d. The revenue from customs during the last financial year exceeded the estimate by £127,500. The late steward of the Working Men’s Club has been committed for trial, on a charge of misappropriating the sum of £52. A barmaid in London recovered £4O damages from a hotel-keeper, who had accused her of peculation, and failed to establish a charge. Afra Winter, of the Junction Hotel, Epsom, has sold her interest in that hotel to Mr W. J. Brewin. Mr Eowlds, M.H.B , has declared himself as being in favour of allowing the licensing laws to remain as they are. The cost of the last general election amounted to £17,000, the licensing poll under the Alcoholic Liquors 'Sale Control Act to £5249, and the printing and preparation of rolls to £227. The amount asked for old age pensions is £200,000. The number of Maori pensioners is a factor not contemplated, and was not ascertainable at the time the Act was passed. The business and goodwill of Messrs F. Twiname and Co, bottlers, and wholesale wine and spirit merchants is advertised to be disposed of by tender. Mr E. Keating takes over the Grand Hotel from Mr Alex Johnston. I hope tfie.Trade have only bidden a short farewell to Mr and Mrs Johnston, and that we will soon see them in another hotel. It is reported that carrot wine is the latest industry in France, and that it has wonderful properties hitherto ignored and neglected. “ Take-a carrott ” will now be the new style of asking a friend to smile. The motto of licensed victuallers, “ In God we

fi trust, all others cash,” is not founded on personal illiberality, but is a precautionary and defensive policy, rendered necessary by the legal connivance in the swidling of the publican.—London ■' Z.F-G 1 . The recent improvements made to the Mangawhare .Hotel have rendered necessary a large outlay in new furnishing. This is being carried out, and the proprietor, Mr F. J. Little, will soon be able to say that his hotel is second to none in any of the country districts. , Mr Archie Hill, of the Suffolk Hotel, has, with commendable promptitude, brought this hotel into line with other town hostelries in the matter of gas fittings and furnishings. Both these impor'i tant renovations have received his personal supervision. Bill Richardson says those who voted against him at the firebell were a band of thoughtless, < r perhaps liquor-demoralised young men. This on a Sunday night, too Our young men stand a lot from sweet William. '.. As many of the articles on which duty is likely to be either reduced or abolished altogether, are largely in daily use by hotel-keepers, the Trade ; should receive some substantial benefit from the j- proposed new tariff. ’’’ At the end of last financial year the colony had a record credit balance. This balance, which amounted to no less a sum than £605,351, emphatically demonstrates the magnificant progress made in the development of the internal resources o f the colony .. Casual Willie, the Workhouse Tramp, tells how he recently rang a doctor’s doorbell, and asked the pretty woman who opened the door if she would be so kind as to ask the doctor if he had a pair of old pants to give away. *• I’m the doc- ?? tor,” said the smiling young woman, and Casual Willie nearly fainted. Nine years ago an act was passed under which penny postage within the colony could be established. Owing to the demands on the funds this fc Act was never given effect to. It is now annpunefed that at last a universal penny postage system will be inaugurated, taking effect on and after Jan uary Ist, 1901. A Victorian Royal Commission on the wine industry have recommended the establishment of winery companies on the co operative principle, receiving Government aid in the shape of loans at 3J per cent, with 1 per cent as sinking fund, and the establishment of a central cellar, with power to receive a shilling per gallon cash on delivery at the winery, balance from sales in London. They also recommend the spending of £5OOO in advertising wines in the United King- , dom, and opening a depot in London. The Armstrong Cork Co, Pittsburg (U.S.A.), recently received an order from the AnheuserBusch Brewing Association, St Louis, for 480,000 t. pounds of corks to be cut into quart and pint bottle sizes, for their bottling department This will produce upward of 100,000,000 corks, the combined displacement of which would more than float the heaviest battleship in the United States navy. About two years’ time will be consumed in filling the order, and the value of the finished Z corks will be nearly 480,000d0l (£97,000).

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