GET ON THE SOIL! YOUNG MAN! GET ON THE SOIL!

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 127, 6 December 1902, Page 4

GET ON THE SOIL! YOUNG MAN! GET ON THE SOIL!

If yon want to Buy an Hotel GO TO LUNDON If you want to Lease one GO TO LUNDOX If you want to Buy a Farm GO TO LUNDON If you want to Sell one GO TO LUNDON If you want to Lease a Farm GO TO LUNDON If you want to Buy a House GO TO LUNDON If you want to Rent one GO TO LUNDON If you want Cheap Money, in Large or Small Sums GO TO LUNDON If you want to go to London GO TO LUNDON (Cook's Agent: TwigP) If you want COOLIT GO TO LUNDOX. If you want to peruse the most extensive Property List, GO TO LUNDON. If you want to obtain a thorough knowledge of the district and people, consult P. LUNDON, Manager, GREAT NORTHERN LAND AGENCY Ridgwav-dtreet. Wanganui

uautaoal lecturer, and then floundered m the dictionary of his mind for bait apparently. 'Gea-rout' what d'you know about nshin'?" said the drunken sailor, and the parson's influence was killed at once. * * • There is no pressure of any kind put on seamen, either m Wellington or in any of the places where this vast organisation has branches, but tlhe fact that at the Wednesday Wellington concerts 390 men signed' the pledge voluntarily is bad for the brewers, and good for tihe salts. The local mission showed an income of £600 last time it was looked into. No chair-to-chair collection is taken up, but £155 found its way into one plate at the door. Two ladies ha,ve supplied, for a very long time, buttonholes for every man ait the Wednesday concert®. * * * Mr Moore has an excellent command of the Cockney vernacular, and relates with eusto conversations he has had with. Jack Ashore. Jack likes J. M. because he "puts on no side " and J. M. likes Jack because he knows him to be m a general sense a "real good sort" at heart. Mrs. Moore, the missioner's wife, is regarded with admiration by the crowds of sailors who are indebted to the mission for pleasant days ashore. She always attends the outings, and this fact is addled assurance if any were needed, that the gatherings are managed with the utmost decorum at all times. * * * The man who is receiving much sympathy from a myriad of friends and acquaintances these days is Mr. P. W. Corby, of the Newtown Hotel. The result of the local option t>oll in the Newtown electorate surprised no one so much as it did tihe licensee of the t>opular hostelry ait the corner of Constabletstreet. And there is no one so hard hit as he is.. Very few men have had hiis experience. Twelve months ago, he deemed himself one of Fortune's favourites ; to-day, he reckons he is one of Fortune's fools. For it is not given to many men to refuse £6700 for a goodwill just after having paid something like half that sum for it. • • • In January last, after using ut> the last two years of an old lease for the v < Newtown Hotel, Mr. Oorby took another lease for ten years from Mr. T. 6. Macarthy, paying £3500 for the privilege, and undertaking to pay £12 per week rental for the new brick hotel, which is now in course of construction. A month, or two after Mr. Corby had

taken up the new lease, someone else coveted what has hitherto beeai accounted one of the best of good things in the "trade" in Wellington. And, all Mr. Oorby's enterprise goes for nothing. On the 30th of June next his lease and contracts are cancelled by the coming in of prohibition — and he does not get a refund. * # On the other hand, the owner of the hotel has a new brick building to show for his enterprise. As it is a good corner location., and a corner round which our new electric trams will turn on the way to Kilbirnie, the hotel can easily be converted into shops. So that it is vain to offer sympathy to the owner — he is in clover. Mr. Corby has been some sixteen years in tihe trade, thirteen of which he has been the keeper of his om n hotels Prior to starting out "on his own," he was well known as one of the staff of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. * • # When he started out as a licensed victualler. P. W. C. gained much txperience and more solid results in a partnership with Mr. "Ted" Sullivan in the Commercial Hotel, Palhiaitua. That hostelry was in those days (thirteen years ago), and is still accounted, one of the best hotel properties in this island Mr. Corby added to his experience in a typical "bush pub" at Hamua 1 (Fortymile Bush), at the Empire Hotel, Feildmg, and at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory-street. Before engaging in the hotel business, Mr. Cbrby was associated with his brother in storekeeping on the Seddonian West Coast. That brother is doing well in the same line of business on the Coast, and since the local option poll, P. W. C. has often thought that his brother has been the most sensible member of the family. * * « There is a strange double coincidence about the connection of Mr. Beauohamp — the main who, as licensee of the Tramway Hotel, will benefit more than anyone els© by the adaption of no-license at Newtown — with Mr. Corby, the man who loses most by Prohibition. It was t)o Mr. Beauchamp that P. W. C. sold out tihe good-will of the Hamua Hotel. Years afterwards, Mrs. Ryan, who is sister to Mr. Corby, acquired tihe Tramway Hotel, Adelaidei-road, on the advice of her brother. And, it was to Mr. Beaudhamp that Mrs. Ryan recently sold out the remaining six years of her lease of the Tramway. And now, when Prohibition comes to Nefwtown, the Tramway will be the nearest hotel to the prohibition district — and that will mean much to* its presient licensee.