A MIDNIGHT MEAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 6

A MIDNIGHT MEAL

_ fr_^—^ HOTELKEEPEBS AS$ Ws. * fUPLiO. (fly Telesrajh.-Pross li/UclAUpi;.) vyangatiui, February 9, : . Hotelkoeperi' obligations t*> the travelling public formed' -the- crux Qt to jii,: tercsting ease which was hoa/rcf in court-to-day, When 1\ J, fibdder,' Jjcftisoo of tho lipwkongaro , Hotel, iva.s cliarged with having refused to provide a meal' for two ijidii \vlio had 'afrjyijd at. tho hotel about midnight. ThpV lad trttvfel-'■ led all faf, teiu.K civg.nge.a iil fcrijighig ywutg hOTRos from Jfevsaleni, tilt tijo VYangDirui lUvof, to the; ho'fso fair. Tljo ; 'night was Vflrj," rough \vhon t)ie,y reaclicd Upokong«To, and they .aroused tii.o li.eeii?co cf tlie .'hotel, who. dirWJtcd thorn to the paddock and the stables, ftnd a'ftp.r-wai-ds showed them to their ro.onn ifiioy tiskwl for slippcr-j but |ho .rlipien.&.e.o. saiu that hfc opiffct not awaken tlio -Servant ai Vhii-t ho«r of t-l)6 night, He also refused to bfo.ak a. cheese, I'lii) ticpiie'ee, iij hia nyjitehce, dedarfid. that tlio moil, did net , insfet on i'bthiiiing food.. the magvstrato titflictml a- fine of £.o.j with £3 Bi, costs, rfiimirlahj; that notclkcopefs had -groat privileges, Wt that they somctinics forgot thc'ir oblißa.lig-ljs \ t<l the public. It was a ease of iljis sort that gave a handle t<? tJw Prohiliitioii-.-i-st&-