CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 552, 18 July 1901, Page 19

CHOPS & CHANGES

An acknowledged conviction for an offence against the licensing laws was sufficient for an Old Country bench to refuse the transfer of a license. The solicitor for the applicant said that a dog was allowed one bite, surely a man ought to be allowed one lapse. The Bench didn’t see The famous Bed Lion Hotel at Henley failed to find a purchaser lately. The bidding reached £34,500, but ’tie said that another £1,500 would be required to touch the reserve. The first dividend in the estate of Pattison’s Limited was payable on July Bth, and was expected to be at the rate of Is 2d in the £. The ordinary claims lodged, as at May Bth, 1901, amounted to £604,370. An American paper states that a brewing company has been started at Manila. The recent losses made by the great brewing firm of Allsop, of Burton, are attributed to the purchasing of licensed houses, and engaging in the wine and spirit trade. I regret to hear that Mr T B. O’Connor, the well-known host of the Victoria Hotel, is suffering from an injured leg. The Hon J. G. Woolley, who is -one of America’s temperance reformers, is due here about the 30th inst. He speaks here on the night of his arrival. lhe Premier has said that as the situation regarding licenses in the King Country has not changed, or if it had, it was for the better : that being the case, the Government did not see its way to set up a Commission on this subject. ' Mr Brabant, S.M., dismissed the case against Mrs Herts, of the New Lynn Hotel. A firm in London have invented a patent glass tubing to do away with lead beer pipes. Speaking of the Licensing Committee’s connection with the want of fire escapes at the Grand Hotel, the Coroner last Thursday said :— “Tn fact, something was taken for granted by somebody that someone else would do something.” It might be added that every time Mr Adjourn Coroner speaks he says something. The granting of a license to the Hotel Commonwealth at New Plymouth formed the subject of interest at the Appeal Court in Wellington last week. At' the sitting of the Wellington Appeal Court, Mr Justice Dennison defined a post-dated cheque as the effort of anjmpecunious gentleman who. hopes to have funds to pay later on. The Chief Justice raised the question whether postdated cheques should not be abolished by act of Parliament. At Lukon, in France, an ancient inn has for / its sign, “ The Four Things to be Feared,” which is the legend under a painting representing a cat, ' a monkey, a woman and a judge. Mr Dowling, late proprietor of the Star Hotel, Kawakawa, was tendered a smoke concert by the volunteers, Oddfellows and business people of . that place when he retired from business. . The dispute between the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Cooks’ and Waiters’ Industrial Union of Workers and the Wellington Licensed Victuallers’ Association and Industrial Union of < Employers and other employers, has been referred to the Arbitration Court by the firstnamed union. ~ The Government is awaiting the result ot the Grand Hotel fire before they offer any reward for the conviction of any person or persons who . may have set the building alight. Mr E. Duckett has disposed of his interest in the Hamua Hotel to Mr Stewart, of Palmerston North. The figure is said to be satisfactory. Ten years ago there was scarcely an hotel in Europe whose bedrooms were lighted-by anything but wax candles. Nowadays electric light is £5 aliqost universal. . The Premier of Victoria proposes to have inserted in licenses issued to tobacco sellers a clause forbidding the sale of cigarettes to children under the age of 16 years. The penalty under the Act for breach of regulations under which licenses are issued will be a fine not exceeding £lOO. The publichouses of London, if set side by side, would reach a distance' of something like seventysix miles. Eight British brewers turn out over 1,000,000 barrels each in the year. ■>’ It is now proposed to establish a Victorian Brewers’ Club, into which the present Melbourne Brewers* Club will.be merged.