A Woman’s Hotel.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 96, 2 May 1901, Page 3

A Woman’s Hotel.

New York, March 20. It is announced that the Woman’s Hotel, long planned for this city, is at last an assured undertaking, mid that the work of construction is to begin in June. At the same time it is given out that tho enterprise is not to be one of pure philanthropy, but will be conducted on strict business principles, wuu a view io nnanci«» —• turns. In this latter declaration tlieie seems to be the guarantee of endurance, while tho system of management adopted will undoubtedly minister sufficiently to the demands for a reasonably cheap and comfortable lodging-place for lone and self-supporting women. It has been noticed heretofore that the mingling of business with the philanthropic element in a special enterprise is apt to conduce to an all-around success, ihus the Mills Hotels, conducted on a business basis, return a profit to their founder while furnishing marvellously cheap accommodations to their modest male patrons. On the other band, so OOtlT.eive was tho philanthropy and so absent was tho business idea in the Alexander T. Stewart hotel for women that tho undertaking speedily vanished into failure. The Stewart- house management even undertook a benevolent regulation of hours for its boarders. The Mills people enforce no arbitrary rules except those of always profitable decency. New York, which supports so many abodos of varying degrees for the bachelor men, should certainly do well by the businesslike hotel for bachelor women.

There'are 156 patients in the Auckland Hospital, the largest number that have ever been in the institution at any one time. An elderly woman named Mrs Poole was burnt to death near Gunning, New South Wales. She accidentally fell into the fire.

By the collapse of a sand cutting at Randwick, Sydney, on April 23, one man was killed, and another narrowly escaped. The two rabbit buyers at Wyndham are sending away large quantities of rabbits, the rodents being very numerous this season.

Something like half a ton of fish,was condemned and taken away from the Christchurch market one morning lately by the chief inspector, as being unfit for human food. At the declaration of the poll for the Wide Bay (Queensland) electorate, for which Mr A. Fisher (Liberal) was elected, the returning officer said there had been 47 cases of personation. A Wellington telegram . states that Mr A, H. Chapman has invented a new process for thawing frozen meat. He claims that his process will add twopence a pound to the value of the meat. He waited on the Minister of Lands and submitted his invention. Mr Duncan expressed much interest, and promised to submit his invention to tjie Cabinet.