Trade Topics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 858, 16 August 1906, Page 20

Trade Topics

Mr. David Morrison, late of the Wynyard Arms Hotel, Wellesley-street, has purchased Mr Walter Guise s interest in the Globe Hotel, Papakura.

Mr. Clem A. . Cornes, a very well known mining prospector, died suddenly at the Thistle Hotel, where he had been staying, la>st Friday morning.

A young man who was convicted last week of having liquor in h : s possession during the currency of a prohibition order was fined £2. and costs.

Last week’s “ Gazette” declares that whereas raspberry acid 's imported into New Zealand, and possesses properties which can be used for similar purposes as table vinegar, there shall be levied on raspberry acid the same duty as is leviable on table vinegar, namely 6d per gallon.

In the Ashburton S.M. Court last Thursday, Mr. Wray, S.M., fined William Porter /?2o and costs 23s for keeping liuqor for sale in a no-license district, in default of payment of the fine, one month’s imprisonment.

In the Christchurch S.M. Court last Friday Mr. Day, S.M., fined W. C. Challis, licensee of the Bower Hotel, Burwood ,£lO, for allowing drunkenness on his licensed premises. Mr. Challis had ordered a man off the premises, and sent for the police, but he had allowed him to stay. The license was not endorsed.

In the local court last week a charge of procuring liquor for May Davis, a prohibited person, was preferred against Alice Fletcher. Accused pleaded guilty. She ".informed the magistrate that she had been employed by Mrs Davis as a domestic servant, and had been ordered to get a bottle of (stout for her mistress. His Worship said it was a very silly thing to do, and he sympathised with the defendant. He convicted her, and ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon.

A man named Thomas Reynolds, who pleaded that he thought the prohibition order against him had expired, and who had to answer a charge in the local court of being found on licensed prem.ses, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Sergeant Hendry explained that the order did not expire until November.

Mr. H. O. Wills, a member of the wellknown tobacco firm, has. given £lO,OOO towards the £200,000 required for the founding of a University for Bristol. Towards this sum Lord Winterstoke (better known as Sir W. H. Wills) and. Mr J. S. Fry have each already promised £lO,OOO. * * * *

Mr. W. T. Watts, who a few months back sold out his interest in the Star Hotel, Newton, has purchased Mr. W. J. Brewin’s interest in the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, S mords-str-et

Mr. A. L. Higgins, of the Royal Hotel, Raglan, has sold out to Mr. Wm. McCarthy.

A Southern paper reports that a disaster was narrowly averted in Oamaru last week, when a rather sedate citizen, without warning, drew from his pocket what appeared to be a portentious-looking revolver, and levelled it at the head of the person he was talking to, threatening at the same time to blow his brains out. The victim blinked, but discovered, on a second look, that the revolver had a cork in the muzzle of the barrel. The wouldbe assassin and his victim were then seen to repair to the seclusion of a right-of-way, and there the curtain drops on the tragedv. The revolver was loaded to the muzzle with the best “p-at reck.

Mr. S. L. Bygrave of the Waihou Hotel, Waihou, has sold out to Mr. Hugh Magill. In the local court last week it was suggested to a man who had pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, that a prohibition order be issued again'st h’m. The offender objected to this course, remarking that prohibition orders got him into more trouble than beer. * * ’ Two thousand pounds of tobacco, growm at Tumut, Victoria, and which has been awarded the prize offered by the Br.tishAustralasian Tobacco Company, and purchased bv the company at is 6d per lb., has realised 4d to 4|d on the London market. In anticipation of a possible increase of duty on imported tobacco to protected locally-grown, heavy clearances are being effected. One company paid .£46,000 duty yesterday. * * * * It ha's been estimated that during the next 12 or 18 months, from £150,000 to £200,000 will be spent in the erection of new buildings in Auckland. * A Dublin man has converted a deserted wine cellar in his native city into an underground market garden. In this retreat, which once sheltered barrels and casks of fiery liquors, now grow seakale, rhubarb and mushrooms. * * * *

It is expected that Mr. H. S. Elliott will take over the Star Hotel, Albertstreet, this week.

Mr George Waite has taken over the Golden Cross Hotel at Golden Cross from Mr. Robert Gibb, who has purchased Mr. C. M. McFarlane’s interest in the Tokatea Hotel at Coromandel.

Constable F. Wild, of Te Aroha, who is retiring after having been 17 years in charge of that district, is to be publicly entertaned at a socal on the fourth of next month, when he will be presented with a purse of sovereigns.

Mrs. McKay, of the Junction Hotel, Thames, has retired from business. Mr. J. B. Hooper has purchased the hotel and furniture. < * * * Painting and papering operations at the Waitemata Hotel, Queen-street, are being carried out. • » * * * Tn Wellington last week, Guy .Cockburn and James Gauld pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to being found on licensed premises, the Clyde Quay Hotel, on Sunday, 29th ulto. Sub-Inspector O’Donovan said that, the men were found in the passage adjoining the bar. The licensee was upstairs and ignorant of their presence. Cockburn, against whom there were previous convictions, was fined 40s, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, and Gauld, about whom nothing was known, was fined 2cs, or seven days’. * * * * In the forty years between 1792 and 1832, there were outstanding notes of the Bank of England, presumed to have been lost or destroyed, amounting to ...£1,330,000 odd, every shilling of which was clear profit to the bank. * * * * Attention is drawn to the list of hotels advertised for sale by Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co., of 84, Lambtonquay, Wellington. The list is a very lengthy one, and the amount of cash required is varied enough to suit all classes of purchasers. * * * * Tn the local police court last Friday William Stewart was charged that on July 16 he used threatening behaviour in the bar of the Globe Hotel. Sub-Inspec-tor Gordon said the accused had gone into the hotel under the influence of liquor and was refused drink by the. licensee. He then became very abusive. Accused sa ; d he remembered nothing about it. His Worship said the action of the licensee was to be commended. Accused was fined £1 and 14'5 costs, or, in default, 14 days’ imprisonment. » * * *

A prohibition order has been issued from the local court against Roger Lupton.

Last Saturday Mr. Kettle, S.M., fined the barman at the Prince of Wales Hotel £2 and costs for serving an intoxicated erson, the information against the licensee for permitting drunkenness being withdrawn.

Mr. Rudolph Tudor, who was manager of the Empire Hotel, Ltd., at Wellington, has returned to Australia from America, and is now manager of Lennon’s Hotel, Brisbane.

Mr. George Edwards, late of Blenheim, has taken over the Oriental Hotel, Wellington, which in future will be known as ‘‘Palace Hotel.”

Mr. Joseph Robinson of the Park Hotel, Wellesley-street, is adding a new private entrance to his hotel. The addition is being built in brick, and being handsomely finished makes a pleasing addition to the appearance of the hotel.

One day last week a small fire broke out in one of the rooms in Mr. James Montgomery’s Post Office Hotel at Neavesvi'le, Fortunately it was discovered and extinguished before much damage was done. The principal damage to the contents of the room being caused by the water used to put the fire out. A defect in the chimney is 'supposed to have caused the outbreak.