CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 516, 8 November 1900, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

Mr Charles Siddells has taken ->ver the Langholm Hotel, Mangaweka, from Mr T. Horner. The sale of liquor in the King Country will occupy a Royal Commission during the recess.

Mr Jno Swift has purchased Mr N. McLean’s interest in the Post Office Hotel, Neavesville. A start has made with the erection of the new Manaia Hotel.

Mr M. G. Power of Waihi expects to be in his new hotel in a few weeks.

The beer duties for October paid to the Auckland Customs show a falling off, as compared with October of last year. I regret to note that Dr F. W. King has resigned the position of Health Officer for the City of Auckland. It is reported that Mrs Murcott has purchased Mr M. Walsh’s interest in the Albion Hotel, Hobson-street.

The sample rooms of an hotel in Greymouth were recently burglariously entered, and some soft goods samples stolen. Mr T. Floyd, of the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, has sold his interest in that hotel io Mr W. J. Baker, late of the Ferry Hotel, Ohiwa A transfer of the license of the Commercial Hotel, Opitinui, from George Loram to Edward Thomas Bain, will be applied for on the 7th December, at the Thames Licensing Court. At the next meeting of the Waitemata Licensing Bench, which will be held at Helensville on 4th December, J. A. J agger will apply to have the license of the Wark worth Hotel transferred from himself to Harry Kerr.

The two charges against William Richardson, temperance reformer, for causing persons to collect in Queen-street so as to cause an obstruction to passers by, are adjourned until the 12th inst.

At the next sitting of the Parnell Licensing Court, which will be held on the Sth December, Edward Darby will apply to have the license of the Captain Cook Hotel transferred from himself to Mrs Frances Ellen Hamilton.

Although the Christchurch hotelkeepers provided extra beds in their hotels in anticipation of the carnival week and jubilee celebrations, everyone was booked, and large numbers of applicants for accommodation had to be refused.

Home brewers do not like the outlook concernings hops. It is estimated that the British crop is not more than half of last year, that of the Continent at from 15 to 25 per cent less, and the American somewhat about the same

In the Amendment Act, 1900, regarding the Electoral Laws, it is made unlawful to distribute papers purporting to be in imitation of ballot papers. Also hotels are to be closed on byeelection days, between noon and 7 p.m., which are also public holidays.

At the sale of the A.R.C. privileges on Friday, Messrs John Churton and Co sold the booths as follows: —Grandstand, A. R. Dunn, £95 ; Leanto, J. J. Donovan, £6O; No. 1 Booth, F. P O’Dowd, £46 ; No. 2 Booth, J. Dunn, £3l ; No. 4 Booth, Brewin, £2B. The refreshment stall was sold for £2O to Messrs Stilwell and Gilman.

At the next meeting of the Waitemata Licensing Bench Thomas Anderson will apply to have the license of the Falls Hotel, Henderson, transferred to William and at the same court Mrs E. G Reid will apply for a transfer of the license of the Kaipara Hotel, Helensville, to David Donovan. A case was before the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, last week, in which father and son were respectively defendant and plaintiff. Mr Wilford, counsel for defendant, said the action taken could be easily accounted for—the son was “ a prohibitionist and the father was from the West Coast ”

63 Mr Edward Whitehead, the well-known hotel broker and valuer oi High-street, reports the following sales during the past six weeks : — Mr W. Woodward’s interest in the Pacific Hotel, Thames, to Mrs Eunice Winter, late of the Junction Hotel, Epsom ; Mr Thomas Andersen’s interest in the Falls Hotel, Henderson, to Mr Wm. Mathieson, late of Normanby, Taranaki; Mrs M. Hall’s interest in the Wairongomai Hotel, to Mr Walter Dyer, late of the Britomart Hotel, Auckland; Mr W. Smith’s interest in the Harbour View Hotel, Raglan, to Mr W. B. Baker, late of Kaukapakapa, and Mr Floyd’s interest in the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, to Messrs Martin and Baker, Auckland.