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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 946, 23 April 1908, Page 20

Speaking of the proposed Licensing Bill in London, the other day, Lord Carrington (president of the Board of Agriculture) stated that if the Bill is defeated it is nearly certain there will be no further licensing legislation this generation.

Dyspeptics!,, made so by eating mince pie and drinking ice water, are responsible for as many murders as those who drink to excess, according to Theodore Sutro, president of the New York branch of the German-American Alliance, who decladed to the House Committee on the Judiciary in Washington the other day that drink was not the only intemperance practised by the American people, and asserted to the clergymen and Women’s Christian Temperance delegates that prohibition does not prohibit.

It is from the Casino in Monte Carlo that the Prince of Monaco draws his ample resources. In 1898, when the gambling concession to the Casino Company was renewed, he received in cash, an annual salary of £lOO,OOO. the promise of a further £600,000 in 1914 when the present concession expires, and the undertaking of the Casino Company to spend a year on the works of the port of Monaco, and other sums for improvements, public works, charities, and so forth.

The sum of 10s in notes and gold was stolen from a safe in the bar of the Golden Age Hotel at the Bluff last week. A young half-caste, emp'oyed l at the hotel, was arrested on suspicion.

It was reported from Hobart last week that the efforts of buyers to bear the price of Australian hops all round was resented by local growers, who intend to ask the Commonwealth Government to increase the import duty to a shilling a pound.

Mr Alfred S. Bankart, secretary to the Campbell and Ehrenfried Company, Ltd., eft for the Commonwealth States last Monday evening on a holiday tour. ♦ ♦ '• •

An Act has just been passed by the Oklahoma Legislature making it a punishable offence for the proprietor of any hotel in the State to use bedsheets less than 9ft in length, or to expect his customers to use cracked chinaware.

The Swiss National Council has decided to prohibit the sale and manufacture of absinthe in Switzerland.

Mr William Dapp, a farmer at Baton, was found dead in his hop kiln last Sunday. Two workmen, intending to leave their swags at the kiln, saw the body on opening the door. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was caused by valvular disease of the heart. Deceased was aged 64. and he survived his wife only a few months.

It was recently reporteds from Melbourne that owing to the unsatisfactory condition of the hop industry, the leading growers are holding a conference to forniulate a more practical working scheme. It was resolved that formulas of all compounds should be published on each barrel and bottle of malt liquor produced within the Commonwealth.

It is stated that the Rev. Leonard IL. Isitt, will possibly be a candidate for the representation of Napier at the next general election.

Referring to Mr Asquith’s Licensing Bill, the London “Daily Telegraph” says that it is the most tremendous scheme of plunder and confiscation ever contemplated in the records of public legislation. Nothing like it has been proposed in the political history of the world. • • • •

Hotelkeepers had a busy time during the Easter holidays, full houses being the rule accommodation in most of the city houses being booked some time ago. We are informed that already some wary country visitors are arranging for rooms to be reserved for them at the time of the visit of the American fleet.

It is rumoured that Mr J. Robinson, who is selling out of the Park Hotel, is negotiating for the purchase of Mr Buller’s interest in the Grosvenor Hotel, Hobson street.

In discussing the Home Government’s proposals regarding licensing legislation, the “New Zealand Tim?s” remarks that in our Dominion, where in our anxiety to become our brother’s keeper, at somebody else’s expense, we are liable to rob another brother of his occupation and livelihood by a mere scratch of the pencil.

Mr T. B. O’Connor, late of the Thames Hotel, wi 1 shortly open a large billiard saloon in the Foresters’ Hall in Karangahape Road.

We hear that Mr J. Robinson, who has been in the Park Hotel, Wellesley Street, has sold his interest in that house to Mr C. Kahn, who recently sold out of the Aurora Hotel, Victoria Street.

Mr Macdonnell. inspector of police at Napier, has been served with a writ for alleged s ander, claiming and for alleged libel, claiming £soo damages, at the instance of Mr H. B. Lusk, a prominent solicitor.

Mr Ralph Somers, the popular host of the Hot Springs Hotel, at Te Aroha, and who for the past two years has satisfactorily discharged the cruties of Mayor of that town, has, in response to the wishes of the Borough Council and the citizens, consented to be nominated for another erm of office.

Sir Gi bert Parker says that the importing into England of a large quantity of American hops is likely to ruin those engaged in the Kentish hop industry.

At Christchurch last week the Chamber of Commerce committee considered a resolution from the Taranaki Chamber drawing attention to the filthy state of bank notes in circulation, and suggesting that members of Parliament should be urged to approach the Government with a view of compelling banks to issue clean notes. The committee supported the resolution.

Hop beer, pronounced to be double the s-rength of ordinary beer, caused eleven s? lers of it to appear at the Raetihi Police Court last Thursday .

Have you ever been at Kaihu ? Well, if you should be going that way, just note down in your pocket book that a good place to stay at is the Opunaki Hotel, of which establishment Mr George Meal'e is the popular proprietor. This hotel has first class accommodation for travellers. Only the best brands of wines and spirits are stocked ana a first class table can always be relied upon, as those who have been there freely testify. The hotel is only three minutes wa k from the Kaihu station, so is very handily situated for those who travel by railway.

A silver Charles I- tankard which formed part of the silver of the famous old Albion Tavern. Aldersgate Street, London, lately closed, sold for £667.

Many people are under the impression that the on'y cause of the pipi not being so popular in New Zealand as the clam is in America is that no one has been enterprising enough to place it on the market. The Dunedin “Star” states that a lady was successful recently in producing from pipis an “ovster” soup which delighted the diners at her hotel, but she had to give up further experiments for the lask of a supply. Apart from their edible value pipis are said to be worth £6 a ton delivered at chemical works.

An American and a Scotsman were speaking about the intense cold in the North of Scotland. “Why, it’s nothing at all compared to the cold wave we have in the States,” said the American. “I can recollect one winter where a sheep, jumping from a hillock into a field, became suddenly frozen on the way, and stuck in the air like a mass of ice.” “But, good heavans, man,” exclaimed

the Scotsman, “the law of gravity wouldn’t allow that!”

“We don’t do things by haves at home,” replied the tale pitcher, “ the law of gravity was frozen too!”