CHOPS & CHANGES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 539, 18 April 1901, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES.

Prohibition orders are in force from the time they are granted. Mr Arthur M. Myers was in Aden last Sunday week, on his way out from Home.

Mr Chris Leek, well known at Newmarket, took possession of the Royal George Hotel, at that place, last Wednesday.

It is rumoured that Mrs Marshall, of Tawai, intends giving up the hotel business, and will be succeeded by Mr Abrahams. The average girl’s knowledge of pugilism is limited, but it doesn’t take her long to discover that the prize ring comes with her engagement. I hear that Mr Sid Laycock, who made many friends in the Ellerslie Hotel, contemplates going into business again, and has bought out Mr Sam Sarah of Hakarau.

Customer: “Hi ! boy.” Waiter (indignantly) : “Excuse me, sir, but I’m no boy.” Customer: “ Well, you’re as much a boy as this mutton is lamb.”

The Amalgamated Waiters’ Society in London intend to make an appeal to the King to promote legislation in favour of the waiters being paid properly, with a view of doing away with the tipping system. Lieutenant Tom Todd, who for many years was with the firm of Messrs Ehrenfried Bros, and latterly with the Campbell Ehrentried Company, is among the returning soldiers on the Tongario.

The Wallacetown Junction Hotel, a large twostoreyed wooden building, was destroyed by fire last week. Theinsurances were :—On the building, £650 in the New Zealand office ; on the furniture, £3OO in the National. Robertson, the licensee, estimates his loss at £5OO.

The waiters of London are in sore distress owing to the Royal mourning and the abandonment of public functions at the W^est End hotels. Over 3000 men are affected, and it is said that the casual waiter had no chance of employment for the next three months.

Mr S. J. Heffer, who is leaving the employ of J. Staples and Co, brewers of Wellington, was presented with a handsome silver tea and coffee service and oak tray as a mark of the esteem in which he is held The presentation was made by MrW. Fletcher, on behalf of the employees.

At Chorley, in England, a young woman applied to the magistrate for a publichouse license. The application was granted, but the chairman said the Bench did not care to grant licenses to single women or widows. In the event of any unpleasantness they would seriously consider whether to renew the license

A London publican presented his daughter with the entire takings of one of his “ bars ’ throughout the three months previous to her wedding day ; whilst an innkeeper in the north of England set aside the profits earned on the most sumptuous guest-chamber in the hotel during a lengthy period to form a dowry for his eldest daughter. The girl was pretty and amiable, and some of the commercial patrons of the house, getting wind of the proposed dowry, insisted on paying enhanced rates when they used he room in question, so that the dowry wase considerably larger than might otherwise have been the case.

An embarrassing moment occurred at one of the annual meetings of the Committee of the Church of England Temperance Society, over which the late Bishop of London presided. The report of the Ladies’ Committee was read, which, among other information, contained the statement that “ During the past year much attention has been paid to harmaids.” A very audible titter ran round the meeting, which was changed to undisguised laughter as the following words were read:—“This has, in many cases, led to their being visited in their homes.'’ So loud was the merriment of the clergy that the chairman, fearful of more alarming ambiguities, rose, and smilingly observed, “ Perhaps, gentlemen, we may take the report as read ”