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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 28 November 1907, Page 20

Mrs. McManus, of the Caledonian Hotel, Symonds-street, Auckland, is having extensive alterations and renovations made to the hotel. Messrs. H. E. Partridge and Co., the well-known tobacco and cigar merchants, intend, erecting a four-storey building in Queen-street, Auckland. '.* * * ■' * A young man named Alexander McCallum, who pleaded : guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and theft from a hotel, was sentenced at . Auckland to six months’ imprisonment last week. ■ * ‘ . * > jt * . The Westland , and Buller licensing districts hold the record for hotel licenses. There are no' fewer than 59 in these districts. In Grey there are 51, Christchurch 46, Auckland 58, Dunedin 39, and in Wellington 48. »‘ * * * A good story comes from an inland town, says the Taranaki “ News.” Two inspectors were . examining the district school. It was a two days’ job, and the inspectors divided the work, one taking the upper, and the other the lower standards. In the ranks of the latter was a little son of a publican at whose hotel they were staying. During the afternoon the upper standard inspector left the school and visited the dentist to have a tooth On his return the landlord invited him to have a drink to brace him up. He had it, and the little fellow happened to pass at the time. He must have puzzled his little head about it all night, for early next morning he popped his head into his father’s bedroom. “ Father,” said he. “you was filling up the wrong bloke . yesterday. It’s the other ’spector chap what ’zammins me!” * ■ * * * In the. .Wellington Supreme Court last week a man named Patrick Brady was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for committing damage in a Palmerston hotel. ■ ■ » ' •' • • ■ r The Packet Licenses Bill was passed last week. ♦ - ■ * ■ * A servant at the Terraces Hotel, Taupo, named Lily Wehringo, while cleaning windows on the first floor the other day, became giddy, and, losing her balance, fell. She managed to catch the sill of the window with her two hands, thus breaking her fall, and dropping to the ground on her feet. It was ascertained that an Australian doctor, who was touring New Zealand, was staying at Wairakei, and on being summoned he stated that it was miraculous that the patient had sustained nothing more serious than a severe sprain of the ankle and back. This injury, however, will necessitate her remaining in bed for four weeks with her leg in splints. * • ♦ • Tenders have been called for the building of a new hotel of about fifty rooms at Tologa Bay. 4 4 4 4 James Morrissey wanted to give an exhibition with live snakes in a hotel in Melbourne. He was arrested on a charge of vagrancy and his snakes were killed by the police. ♦ ■ ♦ * * A chef, who has had experience in England, told the Arbitration Court in Wellington that in Britain he received so much per week in salary and beer money. “ You do not get beer money in New Zealand?” was asked of the witness. “ I never had that luck,” was the quick retort. » . ♦ * » . Among the many peculiar ways in which a man occupies the intervals of his time when he places the cabalistic sign, “ Back in Five Minutes,” on the door of his office, the following may be taken as a sample, according to the unerring affidavit of his office boy:—Half-past' nine a.m. —Morning bracer. Time, twenty minutes. Eleven a.m. —Appetiser for lunch. Time, fifteen minutes. Half-past twelve p.m.— Lunch Average time, one hour and a-half. Three p.m.—Refresher and cigar. Time, twenty minutes. Four

p.m—Afternoon rouser for sinking feeling.: Time varies according to state of \ health. ; Five p.m. —Office closed, but sign still up to convey idea of adjournment for tea, which generally consists of sherry and bitters to meet demands of prospective dinner. 4 « * * ’ There are 1162 hotel licenses in the Dominion, and 203 accommodation licenses. * The death took place at Christchurch last week of Mrs. Cloggie, wife of Mr. William Cloggie, for many years licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, Wellington. $ * ♦ ♦ The premises of Messrs. E. T. Taylor and Co., bottlers and wine and spirit merchants, of Wellington, were visited by burglars last. Sunday night, and a quantity of liquor, cigars and cigarettes was stolen. * * * * Mr. Ell’s Barmaids Abolition Bill has again gone the way that it went last year, and never even gained a hearing. It is a fearsome and wonderful concoction, ! and one which will, in all probability, never pass into law, though it is hardly safe to foretell anything that our legislators may do or not do. On Monday, whilst waiting for the return of amendments from the Legislative Council, those members who had remained, filled in a pleasant half-hour with a comedy, the star item being a travesty on the Barmaids Abolition Bill, the House unanimously deciding in favour of barmaids provided they are grandmothers and 65 years of age.