CHOPS & CHANGES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 604, 14 August 1902, Page 23

CHOPS & CHANGES

.' The Tied Houses Bill was introduced into the Legislative Council by the Hon. J. Rigg.

Mr W. N. Stehr, proprietor of the Star and Garter Hotel, Coromandel, died last Thursday morning. *

The verdict on the Geyser Hotel, Whakarewarewa, fire was that the fire occurred through a faulty chimney. • ♦ • *

Separate tenders have been advertised for for lighting the Flagstaff Hotel, Devonport, by electricity and by gas. i

A man was caught in the act of robbing an hotel till at Papakiura last Saturday morning, and was arrested by civilians. • * ♦ • r

Nearly a million and a-half different brands of cigars are made, yet at the outside there are but 150 different kinds of tobacco grown.

A youth, who had been working in an hotel at Newcastle, died of plague last week. Rats afflicted with the disease were found on the premises.

A fire occurred in the Geyser Hotel, Whakarewarewa, on ■ the Ist inst. Fortunately it was soon discovered, and got under control.

It is proposed to build a new police station for the Newton Ward. A site has already been secured next the reservoir, on the Ponsonby Road.

The latest thing in hotel bills-of-fare is stated to be an edible menu-card. It is generally made of biscuit, which the guests eats with his cheese. s » * * *

Mr Andrew William Creamer has leased the Windsor Castle Hotel from Mr Patrick Gleeson. A transfer of the license will be applied for on September 3.

At the end of this month an additional constable will be stationed at both Parnell and Newmarket. There will then be three in Parnell, and two in Newmarhet.

Last Friday, in the local Police Court, Michael Kiley was fined £2 and costs 7s', for being found in the Grosyenor Hotel during the currency of a prohibition order against him.

Mr Robert Scott, late of the Royal Mail Hotel, Victoria-street, has purchased Mr B. C. Roberts’ interest in the Coromandel Hotel, Coromandel.

In the Kawakawa S.M. Court recently, a man was convicted of assisting a prohibited person to obtain liquor. . Defendant was fined £2 and costs 255, or in default, one month’s hard labour in Auckland Gaol.

As a result of the drought, hotelkeepers at Gunnedah, New South Wales, have increased the price of meals and board and residence by 50 per cent. j;

Messrs Hayman and Co. have, through Inspector Cullen, presented Constable William Skinner with a| cheque for £lO 10s, for preventing burglars entering their premises recently.

Mr Henry Phillips, a well-known Aucklander,” and father of Mrs John Endean, of the Waitemata Hotel, died at his residence, Swanson-street, last Thursday night, at the age of 74.

Captain Tom Todd, who for some years was in the employ of The Campbell, cEhrenfried Company, was presented with the Distinguished Service Order last Saturday morning by Mr Alfred Kidd (Mayor). Capt. Todd < intends returning to South Africa shortly. Mr Gordon Fraser, another young man who has been for some years with the same company, returned to Auckland in the Britannic. He served in. South Africa with the Eighth Contingent, and held the rank of QuarterMaster Sergeant. • • • • A sequel to the Commonwealth Hotel, licensing litigation was heard in the Magistrate’s Court, New Plymouth, recently, when R. Hadfield sued D. Thomson for £lO, being the balance of contribution to a fund to oppose a new hotel license. Both gentlemen are hotelkeepers. The case was adjourned to Wellington. ■ail

Cape brandy, or, rather Cape smoke, as it is called!in Cape Colony, is to pay the interest (estimated at £60,000 per annum) on the war debt of the colony, which will amount to £17,7001,0001 It will be done by way of excise duty.