THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GAZETTE

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 935, 6 February 1908, Page 20

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GAZETTE

Alfred Crossey was last week committed to stand his trial at the Supreme Court on two charges of having obtained money by means of valueless cheques from Mr C. Leek of the Royal George Hu<V, Newmarket, and Mr W. M. Cooke, of of the Prince Arthur Hotel, Wet 1 sley Street-

In Sydney last week Colonel Hopton (commandant of the British rifle team) who Y has returned from a visit to New Zealand, stated that he would rather live n Austra ia than in 11 God’s Own Country. "There was a lot to be done by the Tourist Department in New Zealand before the accommodation provided for travelers approached that of Australia. In most instances he found it inferior, though the charges were high. Colonel Hopton’s chief grievance against New Zealand was the restriction placed on the sale of liquor. He was not a drinking man in the general sense of the term, but most / people liked a glass of something with — their meals, and in New Zealand it was difficult to get a glass of ale or wine. He did not care to express any stronger . opinion, because he had left the place and was not like y to revisit it.

At the annual police examinations 28 candidates offered themselves, 14 of whom passed. The subjects on which they were examined included knowledge of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, Justices and Summary Jurisdiction Act, Licensing Ac , and police duties and regulations. * • • ♦

The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) has re- ! cently stated that the se ection of the railway, frontage for the new Post Office site is definite- i ■ -

Sergeant Rogers, of Auckland, has been appointed officer in charge of the Onehunga police district, vice Sergeant Twomey, deceased.

Three hundred masked night-riders visited Hopkinsville, Kentucky, at two o’clock in the morning, set fire to three tobacco warehouses, entailing a loss of 250,000 dollars, and beat a buyer of he Imperial Tobacco Company until blood flowed in streams from his body. The nightriders made a stay of ha f an hour in the town, and left amid a volley of shots. © ♦ ♦ «

There are no onions in Bermuda for the visitors; they are all exported.; No tobacco is grown in Egypt; the Khedive has forbidden its cultiva ion. There are no olive trees on the Mount of Olives; the Turks and tourists have, destroyed them. The French do not eat frogs ; the Parisian restaurants may be searched for days without finding a sing e frog. Itjish whisky is drunk in Scotland and Sco ch whisky in Dublin. The Holland cheese is seldom seen at The Hague, the Neufchatel cheese is made in New York. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Egypt is a citizen of the State of-Florida, and the head of the Anti-Armenian party in the Turkish Empire is an Armenian.

In France a wife’s earnings belong to her husband. If a woman earns 5s by washing and ironing, or hundreds of pounds by . a great painting or a popular novel, every halfpenny of it belongs to her husband. If she should happen to get possession of the money and put it in a bank, she could not draw it out without his written consent; It be’ongs to him to do with as he wills. «♦♦ 1 ♦

;>• .In ; Wellington last week a man was , fined ; w*itfe the, alternative of seven days’ imprisonment, for using obscene language in a'hotel. ,

The enormous and palatial New York skyscraper situated at the north-west corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second street has just been leased for a period of twentyone years at the record rental j of , £3OO,000. ■

Robert’s mother was a devoted follower of Christian Science. The two were ■ crossing the field, and when the lad saw a goat in the distance he shielded himsef instinctively behind his parent’s skirt. “ Robert, I’m ashamed of you, she • said to him. . ’ Don’t you know there is

no such thing as pain, and that the goat can’t hurt you?” “ Yes,” he admitted timidly, “ I know it and you know it. but the goat don t know it.”

In the public offices of Italy smoking is permitted during business hours to all who do not come into contact with the public. They are restricted to cigars and cigarettes, however, the pipe being strictly forbidden.

Seven hundred dozen oysters, an average of two and a ha f dozen per guest were consumed at Colchester Oyster Feast.

Mr Turner, manager of a London playhouse, has a system of his own. Whenever he sees a man coming in with too much “ Scotch soda ” aboard, he teHs him that, a mistake was made in seP-ing the ticket, as it had already been sold, and that the patron can get his money back at the box office This little fiction usually works very satisfactorily to a ll concerned. It did not the other night, however. A tall, red-faced Englishman loaded up to his lips, stumbled into the foyer. Mr Turner gave him the regulation speech. ‘‘ I knew you were going to say that,” hiccoughed the inebriated one. ‘‘You did it once before; so I bought another ticket. Here it is!”

A very fine private hotel has recently been erected in Wanganui, styled the Parkvi le Private Hotel. An advertisement of which appears in this issue. The building, which is finished in up-to-date style with all modern conveniences comprises at rooms with commercial, writing and sitting rooms, also lounge. The dining room, which is 34ft by 24ft is capable of seating 60 people, and the decorations throughout are very artistic. * * ♦ *

Mrs C. Lindsay, who was hotel-keep-ing at Devonport and Kamo for some years, has purchased Mr E. Hill’s interest in the hotel at Kihikihi.

An Invercargill tobacconist was a few days ago fined 5s and us costs for sup plying cigarette tobacco to a boy 14 years and u months old.

A London paper stages that the Licensing Bill, fa’ling to Mr Asquith’s charge, will take first place in the Government’s programme, and the Education Bill second place.

The appointment of Mr E. Rawson, clerk of. the Court at .Masterton, as S.M. and Warden at Westpor' increases the number of magistrates in West’and to three. Mr Turton, of Oamaru, will proceed .to Greymouth, and Mr. Hutchison, formerly of New Plymouth, :will go to Oamaru.

In the local Court last week a voung man named John Wylie pleaded guilty to having s'o’en a bottle of whisky, valued at ss, the property of Thos. Gray. ChiefDetective Marsack, who prosecuted on behalf of the police, stated that accused entered the Anchor Hotel and took the bottle of whisky in a very barefaced manner. Wylie s ated that he entered the hotel mudd’ed with drink, and was willing to make restitution

Accused’s record was a bad one, showing that he had just recently been released after serving a term of 18 months’ imprisonment. He was sent back to Mount Eden for one month, with hard 'abour, and a prohibition order was made against him for 12 months.

' An. inmate of the Ohiro Home, Wellington, has been having a very merry time, judging by the report of the master (Mr Truebridge). The evidence of other boarders was that this non-paying guest of the home “ smoked in bed, and incited others to do so,” and “ swore worse than they did in the army.” The trustees decided to peremptorily, deal with the refractory inmate.

Regulations for the manufacture of methylated spirits, under the Methylated Spirits Act,. 1907, appear in I he Gazette. Stress is laid upon the strength of wood or ynineral naphtha u,sed in . methylation,

so as to ensure that the nauseousness of the spirit wid render it incapable of being used as a beverage, or of being mixed with palatable spirits of any kind. * * » ♦

In connection with the recent fatal hotel fire Mr Henry Brunton, the licensee of the Waiorongomai Hotel, attempted to get upstairs to awaken Mr Wilson, but finding this impossible, he rescued his wife and child who were saved through a window. Wilson had evidently attempted to get out, but most have been overcome by smoke. The house contained 30 rooms, and was built twenty years ago, when the little township of Waiorongomai was experiencing a mining boom of some magnitude, and boasted three or four large hotels, and several boarding houses, all doing excellent business. © r * © •

The sobriety of the people and visitors to Auckland during the recent holiday on Anniversary Day, was strikingly exemplified by the fact that during that day not a single arrest was made for drunkenness.

Sir John Madden, the Chief Justice of Victoria, who has recently been maki.ig a tour of the Dominion, remarked to an interviewer at Christchurch, that the hotel he stayed at at Rotorua was as good as any he had me' in the world.

Tn the Dargavi le Court last week three cases were brought before Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M., all being alleged breaches of the Licensing Act. The cases were dismissed

Cabinet has passed plans for the new accommodation house at Mount Cook. The building wiT contain 40 bedrooms, and will be constructed of ferro-concrete.

A country storekeeper, R. J. Pugh, was fined 20s, and cos's 19s, at Timaru, for se ling beer without a license. Two constables from Christchurch visited the store on three occasions and were supplied with hop beer manufactured by Pugh, which analysis showed contained 6.63 per cent, of proof spirit.