The Licensed Victuallers Gazette

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 20

The Licensed Victuallers Gazette

In Wel’ington recently a man with a bad record was sentenced to. three months’ imprisonment for stealing an overcoat from a hotel at Levin. * * * , * In 1813 the five-pound Bank of England note was worth only 73s in gold. . ♦ ♦ Still another honour has been conferred upon Messrs James Buchanan and Co. of the Black Swan Distillery, Holborn, they having just been appointed by Royal Warrant to supp'y Scotch, whisky to His Majesty the King of Spain. By the Victorian Act a licensee may refuse to serve any person with liquor, whether a bona fide traveller or not, during prohibited .hours. * * * * '‘‘What —you again? Always begging!” exclaimed a suburban landlady. ‘‘l’m so hungry, lady.” „ “Wait a bit; I’ll fetch my husband. “What’s the use? I ain’t no canmbaL” . At Waihi recently, H. Deverill, coach proprietor, running between Tauranga and Waihi, was fined for supplying liquor to a Maori at Katikati. Defendant explained that he knew nothing of the contents or nature of the consignment, which he simply delivered in the usual way. * * • The daughter of Mr Manfred McMahon, hotelkeeper at Tararu, Thames, had a narrow escape from being killed last week. She was . struck on the forehead by a bullet from a pea-rifle, the bone being splintered. ♦ * During the hearing of a breach of a prohibition order case at the Magistrate s Court, Waihi, last week, an unusual point cropped up, the question being whether a’ brewery with a wholesale license was licensed premises under the Act. Mr' Bush decided to adjourn the case to decide the point next Court day. * * * * The adjourned hearing of a case for claim of commission on the sale of the Kentish Hotel, at Waiuku, brought , by Messrs J. M. and J. Mowbray, against Mr W. Abbott, as executor of . the estate of Mr C. Jones, was continued last Thursday. Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., has reserved his decision. * * * * The privileges of the publicans booths in connection with the Papakura Racing Club’s annual meeting, to be held on the 9th inst., were purchased by Mr J. Molloy for * * * * At the respective meetings early next month, applications will be made to the Parnell and the Waitemata Licensing Committees to grant permanent transfers of the licenses of the Newmarket Hotel, and the Esplanade Hotel, in the first instance from J. Gillander to J. R. D. Baker, and in the second from E. H. White to J. M. Franklin. » * * ♦ Detective Mcllverney of Invercargill, has been appointed chief-detective in the office of the Commissioner of Police. His duty will be to investigate special cases from all parts of the colony. * * * * The beer duty collected in Auckland in January last year amounted to 17s Bd, as against 8s 7d for the month of January this year. * * * * The Wairoa “Guardian” states that owing to the change in the electorate the original p’ans for the re-building of the Clyde Hotel have been abandoned. An addition of twenty-five rooms will be made to the present building. The owners have taken this step owing to Judge Cooper’s recent decision that a licensing committee cannot force a license to rebuild. * * * * The Representation Commissioners have decided upon a slight adjustment of the boundaries of the Rangitikei electorate. They have also agreed to reinstate the name extinguished in the district of Tuapeka by substituting it for “Mount Ida” in a more northerly district. The name of Geraldine has also been reinstated instead of “Temuka,” as it was proposed to call Mr Flatman’s constituency. These are the only, alterations

of any consequence that will appear when the boundaries are finally, gazetted. - ■*.; , ■ * In the local police'-'court last week a middle-aged man named Henry Robinson, p eaded guilty to using insulting language to Mr M. Walsh of the City Club Hotel, Shortland-street. The accused had gone to the hotel under the influence of liquor, and when refused a drink, made use of insulting language., , Accused was sentenced to 48 hours’ imprisonment.

The application for the permanent transfer of the license of the British Hotel, Queen-street, from Mr T. J. Buxton. to Mr J. H. Pagni will be. heard at the quarterly meeting of the City L’.censing Committee on the sth of March. s ** * *

A recent visitor to San Francisco was amazed at the progress he found on all hands. Debris is being removed from the more valuable business sites, and although many people were still living in tents, there was an air of prosperity. on all sides, and much money was being spent in luxuries. As to the smart clubs, these are amusements, jewellery, wine, and other “boarded out” in such fashionable residences as escaped the great catastrophe. Thus, the Pacific Union is quartered in the residence of the we 1-known banker, Mr Borel, and pays £2OO a month rent. The Bohemian Club is established in the house of Mr Boardman, an enormously rich broker, at a rental of a month. The temporary abode of the Bohemian, by the way, is up near Lafayet'e-square, where lines of tents give one the i’lusion of a Nevada mining camp rather than the heart of what was only a few months ago a mighty metropolis.

Imperial Tokay is about the most costly of wines. It is usually reserved for the Austrian Royal family. It has sold at £3 a bottle.

The United States Consul at Funchal (Madeira) reports that an Italian chemist there, Professor Pagisci, declares that the juice of the fig under proper treatment can be converted into a wine of excellent taste. The professor states that its flavour is agreeable, that it is very rich in phosphate matter, and almost wholly destitute of tannic acid, qualities that render it specially nourishing to invalids and children.

The Chateau vineyard at Dookie, Victoria, was damaged by a fire, which broke out a few days ago in the engine room, and destroyed the distilleries.

There is no doubt that people in want of an enjoyable “holiday often rush off to a distance and are disappointed with the result, when the very thing they require is to be found more closer home. Take for instance Clevedon, an ideal spot for anyone a change from town. There is an excellent hotel, the Wairoa, which Mr W. G. Abbott (late of the N.Z. Railway Refreshment Rooms, Mercer) has taken over and renovated throughout. Everything of the best is kept, and the comfort of visitors made a special study. Then there is some capital trout fishing in several streams, good shooting, some highly picturesque bush scenery, and in fact everything to be wished for when taking a holiday. Why not try it? * * * *

At the next Licensing Court, Mr T. E. Hallett will apply to have the license of the Waipa Hotel, Ngaruawahia, transferred to Mr Samuel Draffin, late of Waitekauri.

Under a new order about to be adopted in Austria, persons convicted more than twice for drunkenness will lose the right of voting for two years.

At Aidershot recently an instruction has been received from the War Office, directing medical officers in charge of military hospitals to prescribe whisky instead of brandy in cases where a stimulant is deemed necessary. The reason is that there is a large stock of very old whisky of fine quality on hand at Woolwich, which, it is said, is in almost every respect the equal to brandy from a medicinal point of view. The quality of the hospital whisky promises to soften the rigour of hospital routine, and no doubt many will be anxious to try it.

In connection with the Wynyard Arms Hotel burglary, the grand jury at the Supreme Court last Monday found no bill against Adam Swallow. « « « * In the Supreme Court last Monday a sentence of three years imprisonment was passed on William Thompson for stealing a portmanteau belonging to G. E. Cowling from the Thames Hotel. « * * * At the Thames Police Court last Friday, W. H. Laycock, licensee of the Tairua Hotel, was fined £3 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday. Three men who were found on the premises at the time were each fined 5s and costs. At the same court charges of having broken the licensing laws brought against Henry Brownlee of the Salutation Hotel, were dismissed. ♦’» » * A Wellington paper states that the aerated water manufacturers have been threatened prosecution if they continue to make hop beer as at present, as the Customs contends that its manufacture is against the Beer Duty Act. A deputation waited on the Minister of Customs recently, and was promised that an amendment to the Act would be considered. * ♦ * * Mr C. J. Phillips, town traveller for The Campbell Ehrenfried Coy., left for Sydney last Monday on a holiday trip. Last Monday in the local police court, on the application of Mr Mays, an adjournment until Friday was granted in the case of Timothy O’Connor, who was charged that on December 15, being the licensee of the Victoria Hotel, he permitted drunkenness on the premises, and further that he so’d beer to James. Moylan, a person already in a state of intoxication. * * * * Snakes, although plentiful enough in Australia, are not- common visitors to the central business area of Sydney. Mr John Cassidy, who is in charge of the temporary bar of the Dungate Hotel, now in course of erection at the corner of Liverpool and Castlereagh streets, Sydney, however, had an unpleasant experience with such an intruder. He saw a black snake, measuring over five feet long. He was dozing on a stretcher on the floor of the bar when he was startled at the sight of the reptile crawling up alongside his temporary resting place. Jump : ng on the other side of the bed, he seized a broom handle, and proceeded to attack the intruder. The snake, however, got behind some boxes, which were against the wall. Arming himself with another stick, Cassidy forced the reptile from its hiding place, and getting it into a corner, succeeded in killing it. Where it came from is a mystery, although it is surmised that it may have escaped from a box about the place that recently came down from the country.