CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 529, 20 September 1900, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

▲ residentiaPa dab is spoken of in Rotorua. ?W‘= . - ’ ',.... Mr and Mrs Gardiner, who have been managing the Grand Hotel, Botorua, have resigned, : and leave in November. The Rev J. Ward, at a prohibition meeting !held recently at Oamaru, described Captain Russell as a gentleman, not a prohibitionist. Wine-tasters eat a small piece of bread with a ■crap of cheese between samples, to insure an unpreajudiced taste J; The charge against William Richardson, the temperance lecturer, for obstructing the footfl way, has been adjourned until the 25th inst. fe •' ' ■ ' Mr Henry Lewis, who has for many g years at Te Awamutu, has sold his hotel to Mr Leslie, of Taranaki. Mr Lewis does not retire from business until November. lhe Lunacy Inspectors in Ireland attribute the alarming increase of idiocy among the poorer classes to the prevalent custom of drinking very r strong tea. The nine returned invalids from South Africa were comfortably housed at the Central Hotel f during their stay in town, Host Rolleston paying special attention to their comfort. The Southland Hotel at Gore was slightly damaged by fire recently. It is estimated that /. £lOO will cover the damage done to the buildings, and probably another £6O to the sample rooms. At the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court, a man named John Frederick Forman was committed for trial on a series of charges of theft committed in various hotels. John Scott, late second cook at Lawler’s I' Hotel, Waihi, has been committed for trial for stealing a gold watch and chain from the first cook. Mr Moss Davis has returned from Rotorua, where he has been undergoing a course of treatment. His many friends will be pleased to hear that he is fast recovering his former good health. The police still continue active in the suppression of sly grog-selling in the King Country. It is reported that some thirty-three cases are to be called at the next sitting t of the Te Awamutu Police Court. During the hearing of a charge of betting with an infant, which was heard at Christchurch not long since, Mr Beetham, the S.M , told the defendant that he had better encourage young men in drink, or anything rather than betting. Two witnesses in the recent local sly grogselling case have been committed for trial at the next Supreme Court sittings, on a charge of having committed perjury during the hearing of . the case in the Magistrate’s Court. Mr W. Woodleigh, who has been so long and favourably known as caretaker and steward for Tattersall’s Club, has been appointed to the position of chief steward, to the Working Men’s Club, which position I feel sure he will fill to the satisfaction of the members. At Leonora, West Australia, recently, three burglars entered a hotel and removed the safe, which they burst open in a paddock close by, and extracted £250 in cash and cheques A teamster camped in the paddock saw the men opening the safe with sledge hammers and other tools, and reported the robbery to the police. Recently the Salvation Army in Christchurch, who are nothing if not original, gave a novel entertainment, which consisted chiefly of an exhibition of what they were pleased to term public house life. It is said that drunkenness in all its phases was exhibited, and that the meeting was highly successful, much interest being taken in it by a large audience. What must it have been to have been one of the performers ? A war correspondent writes from Soutu Africa to the London Daily Mail :—“A certain gal'ant corps at Chieveley Camp provided the guard that should protect our precious beer till Christmas Day. In the morning two dozen bottles were missing. ‘ Disgraceful!’ said the authorities ; ‘ double the guard.’ And they doubled it. Next . day four dozen were missing.”