CHOPS & CHANCES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 661, 9 October 1902, Page 22

CHOPS & CHANCES

The Imperial Tobacco Company has purchased tho British interests of the America Tobacco Company. A banquiet to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wellington Worldngmen’s Club was held last week. ♦ * * * The liquor consumption in the WellingX' ton Workingmen’s Club is said to be 6c) per head per day. \ At his own request a prohibition order has been issued in the local Court against Jesse Harry Mason. » -* * 4» Mr C. A. Philip, of Palmerston North, has purchased the leasehold of the Kopuranga Hotel. * * * * The license of the Princess Hotel, . Molesworth-strcet, Wellington, has been 1 transferred from T. J. Wright to F. J. Brogan- ' Mr W. Moore, of Invercargill, has bought Mr Jubal Fleming’s interest in the railway refreshment rooms at Palmerston North station. « » •» * An application is to he made for the transfer of the license of the Maungaturoto Hotel from Margaret Sarah to John Francis Fabian. / y p ; * » ♦ *• From London it is cabled that the revenue for the quarter ending September 30 amounted to the huge sum of £20,455.000. t'-y ■ • . • • • • By advertisement the Auckland' brewers deny the statement which has been circulated that they intend to try and obtain a new license in the Grey. Lynn electorate. . z • • • • At Westport lately a mao, against whom a prohibition order had just been issued, assaulted a constable who went to warn a publican into whose house the prohibited one was entering. 'lt is persistently rumoured in Wellington that after the general election Mr Seddon will return to South Afri< a to assume a responsible position there in a ‘ J ' private capacity. An eight-roomed house was. burned down in Napier early one morning last week. Owing to tne strong wind that was blowing at the time, the Royal Hotel had a narrow escape. •■• • • -For supplying liquor at a tangi at Waikanae, in the Wellington district, a native was fined £2 recently by the Ruakawa Maori Council. Nineteen others were fined 5s each for consuming liquor at the tangi. It reported by cable that aMr William Chamberlain, a gentleman of means, has been found dead, asphyxiated by gas, in Blair’s Hotel, Glasgow. He had a return ticket to Australia in hie pocket. • • « • Last Thursday the Wellington Fire Brigade were called out to attend two small fires, one a chimney which had ignited at the White Swan Hotel, and the other an incipient fire under a hearth at the Caledonian Hotel. A native in the Wairarapa lately decided to take out a prohibition order against himself. But before doing so, as a last tribute to his self-abnegation, he went to a bar and had. three long beers, after which he interviewed the Clerk of • . the Court. Mr G. B. Howard, who is well known in hotelkeeping circles at the Thames and Auckland, recently sold out of the Occidental Hotel, Palmerston North, to Mrs T. Pacey, late of the Australasian Hotel, Dunedin. « * ♦ ♦ One speaker in the Legislative Council last week said that ; a lot had been made of the fact that nearly all the Auckland hotels were tied houses, yet was it not significant that the Auckland hotels were the best in the colony ? « * * * It is reported from Cambridge that Mr James Jackson, of the Masonic Hotel, has • sold out his interest in the lease and furniture of that house to Mr Hutcheson, who comes from Normanby way. As reported last week, Mr Jackson has purchas- -- ed Mr McKay’s interest in the Commercial Hotel, Whangarei. I*',.• During the debate on the Tied Houses Bill, the Hon. J. M. Twomey strongly ob--7 jected to the vile charges made against ■the committee’s methods, and twitted the < mover and supporters of the 1411 with - having, failed ,to get witnesses in support of their case. ' .

During the past few weeks over 100,000 vine slips have been distributed throughout the colony from the Wairangi station. Signor Bragato, the viticultural expert is well pleased with the possibilities of the colony for wine producing. He is of the opinion that New Zealand can produce a better table wine than Australia.