Trade Topics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 819, 16 November 1905, Page 23

Trade Topics

Remember —Don’t, touch, the top line. rU;., V'..*. ' * "'“T* ■•'•■■• • •• • * ' Mr Baume. M,H.R./ is in . favour of leaving our licensing laws as they stand. Mr Aggers one of the'- City labour can- ' didates is in favour of; no-license. J It is anticipated that the statue to Sir John Logan Campbell' will be unveiled early in March. , : ’ -.-.. i : , , ■ - ’ Tenders for the 'sole rights •of the season for the booths at the TaLapuna racecourse. .were returnable by noon last Monday. ‘ •; ■ - t. . -I •-» * ,• ■ : Mr John McLachlan, the sitting member for Ashburton, stated in a speech, at that plate last Thursday night that he thought the system of State control would be preferable to so much sly-grog selling.. ... . - - ■ Mr Bollard, M.H.R., does not see why barmaids should be debarred from earning a livelihood in a lawful calling. He had always found barmaids well behaved. -* * « * Mr Baume, M,H,R., is against the bare majority in any referendum on the Bible in schools, totalisator, liquor or any other question. » » * The late Charles Jackman, who was drowned in the Wreck of the La Bella, barquentine, was a brother of Mr. D. J. Jackman, of the Ngaruawahia Hotel. ~ * * * .* Our barmaids Will no doubt appreciate Mr Bollard’s championship, and will each secure for him as many, votes as possible. *.* * * The wary politician nowadays refuses to be cornered on the nb-license question. When the situation becomes menacing he grasps the hands of the people and in them he tells his. listeners the question is, let them decide.

Mr J. Dixon Ward, anti-prohibition lecturer, held a most enthusiastic meeting at Onehunga, last Monday evening. His expose of the rotten arguments, and perverted figures frequently quoted by the no-license party, was a revelation to many of the large audience. *

Lord Iveagh the well-known philanthropist and brewer, has been created a viscount.

A meeting of the creditors of Sydney Laycock, at one-time hotel-keeping in the Auckland district, is to be held to-day at the office of the Official Assignee. * * * *

A carman who was recently before a London magistrate on a charge of drunkenness, complained that he had protested at the Police Court that he was not drunk. He said he had gone through four out of the five tests put to him. The fifth—that of standing on his right foot and putting the ball of the left foot on the calf of the right leg—he failed at.

Mr Tom G. Woolley, the American prohibition lecturer, has left New Zealand on account of his poor health. He has gone to Manila.

A Coromandel resident has been fined 10s and costs 7s for being found on licensed premises on a Sunday.

Almost two-thirds of the hops in England are being grown in the County of Kent."; " ■ ■ '

Smoking, declares a lady correspondent of London “Truth,” develops the moustache, a fact which is well known by small boys and is at once the cause of juvenile smoking -in the one sex, and the alarming development of moustaches in the other

The rate in the Borough' of Ashburton in the last complete year of license was IS in the £, r 2s in the £ during the' first two years’ of np-license, and Is 6d in the £ in the "third seafc : of’ no-license.

“’During the hearing' bf the evidence at a cordn'er’s inquest at Poole, it transpired that the deceased, (a woman) had for a month past-beeri I ' drinking weekly three pints of vinegar mixed with methylated spirits.'

The ‘New Zealand car Book for 1904 shows that during the year 1903 there were 8528 deaths recorded in the colony, and of those but 07 are set down as being caused by intemperance, this being less than one per cent, of the recorded deaths of that year.

Among other new leagues that have been formed there is the • ‘ League of Rest,” whose members, it is understood, are under solemn obligation not to work between meals.

During 1904 the total revenue collected in the colony on cigars, cigarettes, snuff and tobacco amounted to over £451,000.

New Zealanders per head consume on an average yearly 2.561 b of tobacco. ■ M estralians are the biggest consumers, their average being 4.581 b.

Mr J. B. Martin, proprietor of one of New York’s leading restaurants, has posted a notice promising £2O to each of his 400 employees who, marries, and £lO when the first child born. .

from this district secured a record price of 5s 3d per lb in a Wellington auction inart last week.

A number of the local hotels have sent in contributions to the fund for re-build-ing the Parnell Orphans’ Home. : 1 The total cost of Endean'.s buildings at the foot of Queen-street will be between £13,000 and £14,000. . \ f . * ", * *' ' The associations have been recently \ ipriped at the Thames. These are the . ..Young Men’s No-license and the Liberty . League, the ■ former .for ' and ; the latter against the closing of hotels. : Ths Otago - and. -Southland Licensed i- .Victuallers’ ' Association have unanimously, agreed to " take no part • in the fdi-'ecjio'n of members-of the Horse of Representatives-; ' ’ ■ * ■

The liquor question has not as yet taken a prominent part in New South Wales. In New Zealand it may be truthfully said that politics do not take a prominent part in the liquor question.

In Wellington to-day there are fift.yhree holds against fifty-five ten years ago. *- 3 .. » at at

Mr. Herries says that he is not a pro-h-bitionist, but whatever the mandate of ihe electors, it would be his duty, if elected, to carry it out in a ’o ral manner and to the best of his ability.

The No-license party intend nominating a candidate to oppose Mr. Seddon : i Westland, solely to have the local option vote taken.

A Wellington candidate recently stated ' ’ at if the number of hotels were red.’ced, it would mean that the few that w >r? left would have a larger number of '-’stomers, and that meant an increase * i i the custom of “ shouting,” a custom which he regarded as an evil.

Mr. Massey says the people shbu control tlie liquor question.’ * * ..-■?*■ * ■' H

A police probationer who recently induced the steward of a steamer to sell him drink on Sunday, pleaded with the stewaid “To save a life.” The steward saved it, and Dr. McArthur fined him £5. for doing so. ★ « i * ii

“Men, as a rule, ’’know their rights/’ said Mr. Morison in the Appeal Court.St Wellington the other day. “ Men, as;‘a rule, do not know their rights,” retorted Mr. Jristice Denniston. “If they ’did, you wouldn’t be hei'e; I" 1 wouldn’t 'be here; none of us would be here!” ‘ J"

Mr. A. M. Tracy, who for many years was behind the bar of the Commercial Hotel, High-street, . has’ purchased Mr. W. E. Dalton’s interest in the Exchange Hotel, Thames.

> Air. Fowlds says he is in favour bf national or local option by a. "bare majority; but while we have local Option we could hot at the same time have national option; k dm