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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 854, 19 July 1906, Page 20

Trade Topics

Mr. Tom Seddon elected member for Westland by a substantial majority. * * * * A temperance deputation waited on the New South Wales Railway Commissioners recently to protest against the proposal to provide a liquor bar at the new Central Station in Sydney. • * ♦ * Tenders are called for additions to the Manukau Hotel, at Onehunga. * * * * Mr. E. H. Card, recently manager of the Moana Hotel, at Honolulu, is now chief steward of the mail steamer, Ventura. * * * * Mr. Patrick O’Brien, lately hotelkeeping in Auckland, has been adjudged a bankrupt by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. » * • * In the local Police Court last week, Hirma Nixon, who did not appear, was fined £2 and costs, or a month’s imprisonment, on each of two informations charging him with having entered the Alexandra Hotel and Captain Cook Hotel while prohibited. Sergeant Hendry stated that when Nixon was prohibited he was warned by the magistrate not to enter hotels, but in spite of this the defendant went straight from the Police Court into an hotel. » * * * The debenture holders of McCracken’s Brewery, Melbourne, have unanimously agreed to the amalgamation scheme, details of which appeared in our last issue. * » * * In the local Police Court last week a man was sentenced to a month s imprisonment for using obscene language in a hotel bar. * * * * Mr. Fred. Freeman has purchased Mr. D. Morrison’s interest in the Wynyard Arms Hotel. * * * * Mr. John Lynch, jun., hotelkeeper, of Coromandel, filed his petition in bankrlptcy last Monday. * * * * During a canvass of Lyttelton . prior to last election, in order to ascertain the real strength of the prohibition vote,< an old Scot who was asked to vote “No License” confessed to being addicted to his daily “dram.” It was pointed out to him that the carrying of “No License” would not preclude him from having a keg of whisky in his own house if he wanted it. “Yes,” said Mr. Laurenson, M.H.R., who sought to ininfluence him, “you may have a keg of whisky in your own house, make your wife the landlady, and keep all the profits in your own establishment.” “Yer shair of that?” he queried. “ Yes > I know no law against it at all, answered the M.H.R. The man pondered for a minute, and his face clouded. Then he said: “Mr. Laurenson, ye maybe ken nae law again it, but ye dinna ken my auld wumman.” * * * * “John,” the American said to the coloured waiter of a club, that tabooed gambling, “I suppose it would be something utterly new in this club if we were to do such things as play for money with these cards?” The negro scratched his head and finally answered: Boss, I’se been wiv dis club a long time, and I’se seen . many things!” Yes, but what have you seen?” “I’se seen ebry rule of dis club vi’lated- ’ceptin one! “What is the one?” “The rule gainst gibbin’ tips to de servants!