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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 889, 21 March 1907, Page 20

Mr Maurice Casey, one of the members of the City. Licensing Committee, left last week on a six months’,tour of Great Britain and the’ Continent. } * * ■ h ♦ C: * r Mr Tim O’Connor; is now comfortably installed in the Thames Hotel, Queens street, ,he having taken possession of that house last Saturday, just in time to toast the memory of Str Patrick. Mr Arthur M. Myers, managing director of-The Campbell-Ehrenfried Co., Ltd., : and Auckland’s present Mayor, has consented to again stand for that office, the ensuing being the third term. ■< » •’ Mr W. Derham took over the Victdria Hotel from Mr O’Connor last week. Mr Derham’s friends and acquaintances in the city and country are very numerous, and no doubt he will have a busy time in the Victoria. .. . * * ; * * Mr W. Bright, who up to a few months back was hotelkeeping' at Hamilton, took possession of that charming' resort the Lake Hotel, Takapuna, last week. Mr and Mrs Bright will carry with them in their new house all the good wishes of everyone that they have come in contact with. Mr W. King, who came up from Wellington to purchase the Commercial Hotel, High-street, is now settled down in his new ~ t house.) 'Mr King has had many years experience of hotelkeeping in the Empire City, which exiperience the patrons of, the , Commercial will have fu'l benefit of. We all know the Commercial is a good house, and Mr King comes here with a reputation as an hotelkeeper second to none. Success is undoubted. ♦ » * • Wholesale adulteration of wine is reported from Germany. ; J'J ;

Four sovereigns are in circulation to one half-sovereign. * * ♦ Mr E. Smith has sold out of the hotel at Tirau.and it is • reported that the purchaser is also named E.. Smith, the latter being a son of Mr E. L. Smith, who for many years was hotelkeeping in . Cambridge. Mr Smith, junr., has had many years of hotelkeeping experience, he having .for some considerable time managed his father’s house. . ■ * * ■- « . » A life insurance, po.icy it is said had remained hidden for 23 years ■ under the wall paper of the passage in an hotel, the hiding place having been revealed by the person who hid it, while he was under the influence of an anaesthetic at a dentists. ; : X- * . * ' * Lsist.week at a meeting of the Caversham Licensing Committee the chairman (Mr. H. Y., Widdowson, S-M.) said he had received' a letter from the ' chairmanol the. Nelson Licensing 'Committee, ill which was .contained a resolution passed by that: committee that in view of a recent decision of Mr Justice Cooper the- committee urged the Government , 'to l.iamerid the ‘Licensing Act so as to gives power to committees to - have reasonable requirements in., improving, enlarging, and rebuilding /licensed houses complied tvith. The>’comniittee agreed to cooperate in an endeavour to secure the ’amendment referred to. . ' ■' * ' ' *_ ■. The great Duke of Wellington was the first inventor of the mixture of ale and soda-water, but was qfiite innocent •of any gastronomic fancies, ” scarcely knew one wine from another, and could not discern bad butter from good. His indifferencein the matter of food was proverbial, a contrast, says-Lady Violet Greville ; .in the “Graphic,” to the present )day, whejp diet forms one of .the principle .subjects of conversation. -r, Lj-. . / * * '■ * ' * ' At the -Te Awarnutu Magistrate’s Courtlast week, a man named W. E. Humphries was convicted and fined £2 and costs £1 14s 6d 'for entering the ’ publican’s booth at the Ohaupo races, during the currency of a prohibition "orde'r. On a second charge of entering the Pirongia Hotel, he was convicted and fined £2 and 7s costs. <■ * * * As notified in our. last issue the Fitzroy Hotel was to change hands, we now learn that Mr T. C. Christansen, who until recently was in the Hibernian Hotel,"' Onehunga, is the new licensee. *•* . * * According to a Wellington paper there . are a number of clerks in the Civil Ser- i vice, who originally engaged as temporary clerks, now positively refuse to take the sack. When such ’ a thing as discharge is mentioned, the ones concerned simply go round to friends with political influence and the discharge is not accepted « * < ♦ “For a prohibited person to come into the Police Court drunk is a cheeky thing to do,” said Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M., at the Police Court last week, in fining a prohibited person who had been drunk in the Court. * * * * The employees of Messrs Hancock and Company held their annual picnic last Saturday. * * « * We are pleased indeed to welcome Mr Tim Kenealy back again to the ranks of the trade. This time, however, Mr Kenealy joins us in the wholesale branch, he having purchased the business of Messrs James Drake and Co. in Vulcan Lane. Mr Kenealy is well known among hotelkeepers, his last house being at Te Puke, which he conducted in a most creditable and successful manner for many years. We trust that he will,: meet with equal success in his new departure. We think we are correct in saying that in the Queen’s Ferry Hotel, Mr Torn Markwick makes his first acquaintance with the public as an hptelkeeper. However, he has had so many years of experience as a chief steward of passenger steamers, an office which calls for a close acquaintance with the qualities of studying the public comfort that we have no doubt he will make a splendid success of his venture in the hotelkeeping business.

Early one morning last week a large water pipe on the first floor of the City Hotel, Dunedin, burst, and did damage es imated at about £BOO to the stock of a firm of mercers who had shops on the ' ground floor. .♦ « * • In Cambridge last week a woman was arrested for stealing wearing apparel from the Masonic Hotel. • **; * * In London recently Mr. Justice Bargrave Dean said that temperance meant to avoid the abuse of drink, abstinence meant avoiding its use. His opinion was that it would be a grievous mistake to make any human being an abstainer by Act of Parliament. - / , *** • * You cannot make people , good or sober ? or wise by mistrusting them.'?, i! ■■■■'* ' •. * V' • ; An American paper says that paregoric which contains 45 per cent, of alcoho , and is freely administered to children, makes an empty boast of those- who say that they never in their lives tasted alco- . hoi. , ■■ .'.l'.;-.; The inattentive pupil q jri the literature class was filling out \his j examination : paper, when .he came ;to the./question-— “State what you know about ‘Undine. After puzzling over sthis awhile. f he< . wrote—' ‘ Undine is i.whaf you do when you . are sea-sick. ” 1. ;■>. '. ;; ■ * * * Messrs P. A. Zohrab and Co., of Lambton quay, report the sale of the following hotels-(Mr William Halley’s interest, in 'the lease and furniture of 1 the: Kilbirhie (Hotel, Wellington, to Mr George Harden, of Blenheim, formerly of Te Ard , Hotel, Wellington; Mr s Jphn-.Firth’s in- 4 Merest in the lease; and ' furniture of the/ Cambridge Hotel, ..Cambridge terrace, Wellington, to Mr Henry Goodwen, for- J m.erly of the Langholm" Hotel, Mangaweka. - . r . ■■■ ~ |. In Germany the - income ..taxis a -nat- ( ional tax which even the, poorest have to pay- # .. r ’ : ? ./>. Public houses in the United Kingdom • numbered 96,727 in the year 1881. ’ Th . 1904 thg_ number was only 91,502, and is still steadily diminishing. Great Britain pays annually eight millions of money to Army, Navy, and Civil Service pensioners, who number 170,000. • ¥ * A London policeman recently asked a magistrate what he was tb do with a bottle of rum that he had taken from an old man who was drunk and disorderly. The magistrate replied, “The police must retain that, they will do as they think fit with it. ” * * Six persons were charged at the Croy don Sessions with breaking and entering the Canterbury Arms public house. Among other things that they decamped with were three bottles of port, five bottles of whisky, three bottles of champagne, one bottle each of gin, claret, rum and sherry. The mixture proved their undoing, for they soon after fell into the hands of the police.

In the Wellington police court last week a young man was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a series of petty thefts, among other charges was one of theft of a case of whisky from Francis McParland, proprietor of the Hotel Cecil. It would appear that one of the thief’s dodges, was to telephone to places of business, representing himself to be a well-known customer, he would then send someone round for the goods ordered. » * * * Mr Thos. Markwick, who for many years has been with the Northern Steam- • ship Company, has purchased Mr A. Bach’s interest in the Queen’s Ferry Hotel, Vulcan Lane. Mr Markwick has had many years of experience in catering for the wants of the public, and will, perhaps, be best known to our readers as the chief steward of the p.s. Wakatere, which office he has worthily held ever since the arrival of that steamer from Home. * * * * It is reported from Invercargill that last Thursday afternoon the police, who are doing everything possible to detect breaches of the licensing laws, warned several residents that their movements were being closely watched. * * * r. A Wellington restaurant keeper told the Minister for Labour that trade had diminished considerably since the electric trams came into operation. People who formerly had their meals in town were now able to get home, and the restaurant keepers depended more largely upon people who arrived by late trains and steamers. * * * * In the local court last Friday, Daniel Drummond was fined 30s and costs, or in default seven days imprisonment for drunkenness and refusing to quit the Albert Hotel. « * * * Mr Jackson, formerly a hotel proprietor at Petone, returned to Wellington last week after a trip to the O'd Country. The Truant Officer at Wel ington reported last Thursday that children had gone out to Motueka for the hop-picking season. The parents were ordered to bring them back. * * * * Speaking at the Fire Brigade’s annual dinner in Wellington last week, the Superintendent stated that not only Wellington, but the who'e colony had a very unenviable reputation for fires. The City Council have agreed to allow the suspension of tramway traffic on Good Friday (to-morrow week). The tramway employees hold their annual picnic at Motutapu on that day. Speaking at Loburn recently, Mr Rutherford, M.H.R., recommended the electors to return their member by a much smaller majority if they desired consideration from the Government. When the majority was large the Government felt secure of the district, and neglected its wants. He instanced Kaiapoi, in which Mr Buddo was returned by a narrow majority. Soon after the Premier went through the district and promised it a new railway station at Rangiora, and other good things. • • a a The death is reported of Mr Widiam Keller, a well-known and highly respected hotelkeeper of Hokitika. Deceased died last Sunday, aged 80 years, and had resided in Hokitika for over 42 years. # * * « In the local police court last Monday morning a man named Charles Lewin was charged that on March 16, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Alfred Hodgson, he wounded him with a knife, causing ac.ua. bodily harm. He was remanded for a week. It appears that the accused was being ejected from a hotel of which Hodgson was porter. The accused resisted and stabbed the porter, wounding him in the arm and legs. The injured man was taken to the hospital, where he is making satisfactory progress. * * * * During the hearing of a case of forgery in the Court at Blenheim recently, it was stated that hotelkeepers were too obliging in giving blank cheques to persons asking for them. « « « • The Victorian Licensing Act provides for ocal option, with a monetary compensation, the fund for which is to be raised by a levy of 3 per cent, on the gross vaue of all wines, beer, and spirits bought by the licensees. * * * * A record shipment of whisky for New Zealand is reported from Glasgow. In the steamer Morayshire which left the Clyde recently there are 20,000 cases of whisky each containing one dozen bottles. * * * * At the quarterly meeting of the Manukau Licensing Committee which was he'd last Monday, the police report on the general conduct of the hotels in the district was satisfactory.

Out of 212,876 women qualified to vote in New Zealand, 174,615 went to the polls at the last election. * * * * From Napier a jewel robbery is reported to have taken place at the Provincial Hotel last week. Jewellery to the value of ;£iob, belonging to one of the daughters of the licensee, was taken between noon and two in the afternoon one day. * * * . ' .* .; ■ . On Tuesday last (the Taranaki Herald reports) a Waitara resident was charged, before the S.M., with aiding in the commission of the offence of giving liquor to a native woman. Mr Townsend appeared for the accused, and took exception to the informa ion as laid by the police, on the ground that it disclosed no offence, quoting the Alcoholic Liquor Sales Control Act, 1895, which creates the offence of giving liquor to a native woman, but does not make it an offence to “aid in giving.” ’ His Worship upheld Mr Townsend’s contention, and dismissed the information. * * * * A man named Peter Cleary has been arrested at Tolago Bay upon a charge of theft of 10s. The theft was committed at the hotel where the accused, it is alleged, rifled the pockets of some of the boarders. * * * * Visitors to Waitara should make a note of the fact that the Masonic Hotel is now under new management. Mr W. E. Grantham is the proprietor which means that travellers and residents may rely upon getting every attention paid to their comfort. Nothing but the best quality of wines,, a es, and spirits are kept, and ah together the place is conducted as a first* class'hotel should be. ! MIXED CLOTHING. Last Monday at Cambridge at a sitting of the Police Court, the presiding justices being • Messrs W. Rout, J. Fisher, and E. J. Wilkinson. Mary Thompson was charged with the theft of a quantity of c o hing, the property of Sarah McKenzie, and Hugh Rae was charged with receiving such property, the allegation being that he knew them to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr A. J. Edmonds appeared for Rae, while the woman was represented by Mr J. Lundon, of Auckland. Constable McNamara conducted the prosecution. It came out in evidence that the woman was dismissed from service at the Masonic Hotel on account of an alleged impropriety with Rae. Rae deposed that he packed her box in the hotel before leaving, but the clothing was not marked, and being intoxicated, evident y he had also included some clothing belonging to the woman’s fellow servant. When Thompson was subsequently charged by the owner with having taken clothes, it doubtless dawned on Rae that he had mixed up the clothing in the process of packing, but instead of returning the clothes he unsuccessfully attempted to do away with them, but not at the instigation of the accused woman. The Court was crowded during the hearing of the case. The Bench inflicted a fine of 10s in the case of Thompson, and one of 40s in Rae’s case, no conviction being recorded in either case. MANUKAU LICENSING COMMITTEE The quarterly meeting of the Manukau Licensing Committee was held in the Onehunga Courthouse last Monday, before Mr R. W. Dyer (chairman), and Messrs J. Rowe and D. McLennan. An apology was read from Mr D. Neilson, owing to his leaving for Sydney that day. The police report of the general conduct of the hotels in the district was satisfactory. A letter was received from the Nelson Licensing Committee, asking the cooperation of the Manukau body in securing legislation giving committees power to order licensees to re-build hotels in order to give necessary accommodation. It was decided to refer the matter to the annual meeting. Transfers: Applications for the transfer of the license of the Hibernian Hotel, from Mr Thomas C. Christensen, to Charles Lomax, and of that of the Star Hotel, Otahuhu, from Mr A. L. Higgins to Mr Walter Guise, were granted. Mr McVeagh appeared in both cases. STOLEN WHISKY. Whisky which had, it is alleged, been bought and sold by means other than legitimate, occupied the attention of the Dunedin Licensing Committee last Thursday morning. The explanations of Messrs Geddis and Branson, hotelkeepers, as to buying stolen whisky at reduced price, were accepted as satisfactory. In the case of a third man named McClintock, who denied having bought any whisky, the evidence of two persons implicated in the theft of the whisky was so shaken under cross-examination by Mr Solomon, that the transfer of the license applied for was granted.

A CURIOUS INCIDENT. From Nelson it has been reported recently that a curious incident occurred at one of the city hotels. A man who shared a room with another male boarder was heard talking loudly after the house was closed, and was requested by the landlady to extinguish his light, when he said he had lost in notes. A search was made, and the roll of notes found on the stairs. The landlady then offered to lock them up in the safe, but as he declined he was requested to leave the house, which he did, the police being informed of the circumstances. Next morning he asked permission to lie down till noon, and locked himself in the room. At lunch* time he was called, when he said he had been robbed of The landlady locked the room and sent for the police. Meanwhile the man left. The police found the between the sheets of the bed, and the money is in their hands. A JUDGE ON TEMPERANCE. A discussion upon the proposals of the Temperance Legislation League took place at a meeting of the Royal Courts of Justice' and Legal Temperance Society, held in December last at the Old Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, London. The chair was taken by Mr Justice Bargrave Deane. Sir Henry Bargrave Deane said he had supported for many years ajsociety which aimed at temperance. It began by persuasion. (Hear, hear.) The members of it undertook never to take intoxicating drink, except at meals. That put a stop to all nipping, and kept men from wine

and spirit shops. He had been struck and annoyed by the way in which some temperance reformers went beyond the views of the general body of people. They publicly stated that their object was not only temperance, but prohibition. If they continued to do this they would alienate many earnest supporters of temperance reform. The nation wou.d never agree to such a proposition, and the advocacy of prohibition would stir up feeling which would altogether impede the cause of temperance. Temperance meant to avoid the abuse of drink; abstinence meant avoiding its use. His opinion was that it would be a grievous mistake to make every human being an abstainer by Act of Parliament. (Cheers.) —Australian Brewers’ Journal. THE CHIEF BREWER. Mr Cornelius O’Sullivan, F.R.S., whose death was announced from Burton-on-Trent last January, was chief brewer to Messrs Bass, Ratcliff, and G.retton, Limited, and had been connected with the firm for 44 years. He had a reputation as a chemist, which be fairly described as world-wide, his research work having gained for him the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Born in Cork 66 years ago, Mr O’Sullivan was studying under Professor Hoffman, of Berlin, when his talents brought him under the notice of the late Mr Michael Thomas Bass, who secured his services for the great Burton brewery. Mr O’Sullivan had a strong sense of humour, and it is told of him that when a particular scientific distinction had been offered

to him he remarked that some men achieved fame by .eaps and bounds, but he had achieved it by hops! . On the occasion of King Edward s visit to Burton last year, Mr O’Sullivan prepared the mash which the King brewed, and the product of which figured on the Royal table at Kangenuuc on me occasion of the Royal visit on January 5. A RECORD SHIPMENT. What is believed to have been a record shipment of Scotch whisky was made to New Zealand from the Clyde a few days ago. In the holds of the steamer Morayshire, which left for New Zealand ports, via Liverpool, were stowed no fewer than 20,000 cases of whisky, each case containing a dozen bottles. In addition, there were carried 1000 casks of whisky. Anth* meticians say that in point of bulk the quantity exceeded the 27,000 cases once shipped on a Clan liner at Glasgow. “These large exports of Scotch whisky afford,” says a London paper, “a new and not uninteresting illus-ration of the theory that trade follows the flag.” AN UNSATISFACTORY CLAUSE. The Victorian Licensing Act provides for local option, with a monetary compensation, the fund for which is to be raised by a levy of 3 per cent, on the gross value of all wines, beer, and spirit bought by the licensees. This clause is . already causing a good deal of dissatisfaction, and members of the trade argue that it necessitates a disclosure of their private business. If the levy is not paid by March 31 of each year the license becomes void, and if the licensing bench considers the return made by the publican to be too low, it may assess the levy at any sum it sees fit, the publican having the right of appeal to a higher Court. A LONG LOST LIFE POLICY. A remarkable incident has just been brought under the notice of the Gore “Standard.” It appears that 23 years ago, a New Plymouth resident put away for safe-keeping a life insurance policy, issued by the Government office, for on the life of his father, who was then

lying on his deathbed. The man hid the policy away, owing to the theft of about from his home, which was a publichouse. The father died in the course of a few days, but when the policy was required, in the course of the settlement of his affairs, it could no: be found, the son having forgotten where he had secreted it. Years passed by, but the mystery was not elucidated, and in the course oi time the trustees carried the claim against the Insurance Department, to the law courts, and eventualy to the Privy Council, but the defence was succesfully raised that the policy was not lost, and when it was produced the claim would be paid. The sequel occurred in Gore last week, when the man who had hidden the policy visited a dentist for the purpose of having several teeth extracted. An anaesthetic was administered, and under its influence, the patient’s mind wandered to the question of the policy, and the whole of the details connected with the secretion of the document came back to his memory. He recollected cutting open the wallpaper in the passage of the hotel, and secreting the policy behind the scrim, and then pasting the paper over it again. No time was lost in despatching a telegram to a brother, asking him to make a search at the spot indicated in the vision, and. in three or four hours a reply was received that the policy had been found just where the searc 1 * was made, as directed. HE RHINE WINE. “Pour out the Rhine wine let it flow," is a line from a song familiar to most, and it is safe to add that in view of the extraordinary revelations that have recently been made in the Reichstag as to the extent of wine adulteration in Germany, that the German Government wiil do a good deal of pouring out, and the flow will be down the gutter. One meijchant who has been convicted of adulterating his wines, purchased in seven years 34001 b of glycerine, i2,0001b of tartaris acid, i6oolb of potash,, and noolb of citric acid. A merchant named Kerr has been sentenced at Neustadt to two months hard labour, besides a fine, for selling during twelve months 55,000 gal.ons of wine which did not contain a trace of grape juice.

“John,” said Mrs Noodles savagely, as John came into the room unsteadily, and hung his collar on the chandelier “what time is it?” “Jus’ one o’clock, my dear,” replied John, making a desperate effort to act natural. “What do you mean by telling me such a falsehood ? I heard the clock strike three not ten minutes before you came in. ” “Yes —hie — my dear. But you don’t understand that cock. It’s a repeater.”