Trade Topics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 662, 6 November 1902, Page 20

Trade Topics

It is reported by cable that the French champagne vintage this year has proved a failure,.

Messrs William Beehan and John Patterson have retired from the contest for the Auckland City seat. * # <b • * For the City electorate, the " ticket.'’ as selected by the Liberal and Labour Federation, consists of Messrs J. H. Witheford. A. Kidd and W. J. Napier. .

The Hotel Commonwealth, New Plymouth, was destroyed by fire early last Thursday morning.

Mr Alexander Johnston, late of the Grand Hotel, Princes-street, has purchased Mr Duncan Stewart’s interest in the lynpire Hotel, Victoria-street.

At the December meeting of the Alanukau Licensing Committee, application will be made by Henry A. Lloyd to have the license of theEpsOm Hotel transferred to Henry James Syms..

The charges brought against Mr Jno. King, the Registrar of Electors for not keeping a'roll open for inspection were dismissed last Thursday. The prosecution failed to prove that the office of the Registrar had been gazetted as such.

The son of an hotel-keeper at . Pooncaric, New South Males, Mr Charles Garraway, cycled 200 miles in 24 hours, to obtain medicine for a sick relative.