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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 6

The postal authorities have been advised of the departure of the Victoria from Sydney for Auckland on' Wednesday with 298 bags of English'and Australian mails. The Wellington portion, consisting of. 190 bags, may be expected to arrive by the New Plymouth express on Monday evening.

Harking back to that story of the Hawke's Bay publican who compelled his barmaid to let him lie with her; it is now told to me that, he stood by and bought up every copy of that issue of "Truth" that went to the agents, so that his \yife and fellow townsmen should not read of his infamy. Wipe ah. wah ! and wipe him hard. "Paddy" Griffin, one of the best known men m the liquor-trade m Wellington, and recently proprietor of the Imperial Hot-el, Waipawa, has . taken the 'Pier Hotel, Customhouse Quay and. Grey-street, which, as is well known, ' has only just been completely . rebuilt, fitted and furnished at; enormous cost and made one of ■the.' '.'lines t and most com- i plete hotels m the colony. Mr Griffin's popularity arid thorough knowledge of the trade should make his handsome hotel a humming hive of business. . , ... . . j