CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 518, 22 November 1900, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

The sum of £40,000 a year is derived from the use of telephones in New Zealand. The Glen Var Wine Company was awarded a gold medal at the Auckland Agricultural Show.

The population in Manukau County in 1896 was 12,544.

The Windsor Castle Hotel in Parnell has passed into the ownership of Mr Patrick Gleeson. The price paid is said to be about £5400.

In 1890, £8,510,603 was paid in duty on unmanufactured tobacco in the United Kingdom. Last year it had risen to £10,192,792.

* Parnell is the shortest electorate in the colony, being only three miles in length. Westland, which is 324 miles, is the longest. A servant in a London Hotel was caught recently, handing over to a customer a bottle of whisky, in addition to beer that was ordered.

Germany produces about 70,000,000 gallons of wine in an average year. The annual yield of Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia, is upwards of 600,000,000 gallons.

Lieutenant Tooth, son Mr R. L. Tooth, of the Kent Brewery (N.S.W.), and who went to the war with one of the contingents, was wounded in a recent engagement.

Hotelkeepers should be on their guard against spurious half-sovereigns, a quantity of which, it is reported, have found their way to New Zealand from Melbourne.

Miss Lily Speer, of the Governor Bowen Hotel, Thames, was married last week to Mr E. C. Kivell, who will now assume proprietorship of the hotel.

A sudden death took place in the Oxford Hotel, Victoria Street, on the evening of the 14th inst. A man named Daniel Tapley Moverly died while being served with some beer.

Robert Knox,, of Parua Bay, will apply on 7th December to have his accommodation license transferred to Joseph Arthur Jagger, late of the Warkworth Hotel.

T. S, Speer, now holding the publican’s license for the Governor Bowen Hotel, Thames, will apply to have it transferred to Ernest Kivell, at the next licensing meeting which takes place at the Thames on the 7th December.

An application for transfer of the license of K-ithe Post Office Hotel, Neavesville, from Norman ’!v Maniean to John Swift, will come before the Ohinemuri Licensing Bench at the Courthouse, Paeroa on the sth December.

Id the north and north-east of Scotland, there are 80 distilleries. Twenty years ago, the number of distilleries in all Scotland was 121, now the number is 161, the increase during the’last five years being 29.

Amongst the improvemf nts at Raratonga suggested by Lieut-Col. Gudgeon, British Resident, is the establishment o i a hotel for the convenience of visitors. The Colonel is convinced that in time to come Raratonga will be a favourite .holiday resort for New Zealanders.

The estimated population of the colony on September 30th, was 804,035 (inclusive of 39,854 Maoris), as against 800,291 at the end of the Jdne quarter. The births during the quarter numbered 5022 and the arrivals 3279. The deaths totalled 1789 and the departures 2768. The figures for the Maori population are those of the census of 1896.

Mr Edward Whitehead, the well-known energetic hotel broker and valuer, has been busily engaged during the past week at the Grand, Palace, and Lake House Hotels, Rotorua. On completion of his business at Rotorua, I understand that Mr Whitehead goes to Hamilton, to give pop session to Messrs Baker and Martin at the Royal Hotel.