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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 917, 16 June 1903, Page 3

Thus tho Wellington Free Lance on the ton o’clock closing of hotels: Some ten \-ears ago it was tried in Auckland, and tho heavens didn’t fall. Auckland is a bigger town than Wellington, but ten o'eiock closing has prevailed there ever .since, and everybody seems quite satisfied, in Wellington, very few travellers arrive by train or boat after 9 o’clock, Citizens who come down town for meetor entertainments at night can easily tako their liquor early, or refresh themselvos at home. Mr Samual Gilmor, in his evidence, said people were trained to leavo tho hotels at eleven o’clock, and it would be difficult to got them out at ten /clock Early-closing training, however, ,vill work wonders. The city will get to 3 od oarlier, there will bo fewer headaches in tho morning, and the police will have ■ aclanc and aisy ” time of it at night. On the score of good conduct and travellers custom, hotels like the Loyal Oak, the Empire, and the City Buffet had strong claims to exceptional treatment, but it would be inexpedient to differentiate. By and bye, we shall not be surprised to hear that Boniface has discovered that early closing was a blessing in disguise. At any rate, his employees won’t object to knock off work at ten p.m. OJd Winter comes with chilly breath sickness, sometimes death ; Yet every family, praise the saints May now be free from chest complaints. ,Yt. winter’s cold and winter s rain, We can laugh with might and main, For we have the remedy pure \V E. WOODS’ GREAT PEPPER- ' MINT CURE,