WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 25 September 1880, Page 2

WAIMATE.

(FROM OUR OWN COHRESI'OJfDENT.) " The Mail is lost! the Mail is lost!" was the cry in Queen-street at 7 p.m. last night, and the good peop,io who heard it and were not in the secret were struck with horror. They thought that the cry referred to the Royal mail, that the Kellys were come to life in New Zealand, or that some other dire calamity was about to befal the Colony. But their fears wore set at rest by loaro.ing the truth. Tho smart boy who sells the Timaru evening paper, wishing to crush his successful opponent, stole the bundle of the Mail and. "planted" it. However, that lively sheet, has power to sparkle in the dark, and. soon caught the eye of the small crier to> whom it is regularly consigned. I Now, I will give you something of thehistory of "The Grosvenor." This nowfamous house—famous in Waimate at any rate—has had a severe struggle to comoi into existence. The Grosvenor is a fino' two-storeyed wooden building of about 2Gi rooms, and is situate on the busßi road and a considerable way out of town. Through tho action of a clergyman, tho license was withheld, and tho owner made bankrupt. Tho house has now changed owners, and Messrs. Lintott and Ottorson, of Oamaru, have become the possessors. Mr. Leeston, for mnny years an hotolkeeper, applied for alicense; his application was backed up by a long list of signatures,, and no doubt was felt as to its success.. But alas ! tho. parson*s action must havci made a deep impression, and tho Benchi again refused to license the house. Your townsmen, however, were not to bo beaten thus, and, under the influence of hj, and O.'s old XXXX," they mm (able to make another effort, and this,time | successfully. Hurrah ! working; men shall now have their Club in Waimato, and, in spite of the ministryboth political and religiouH, we shall Have beer tc> drink at a reasonable pricflr— two drinks* for 6d— or the 1.0.G.T.s can have coffe® aud free discussion. Thus out of the opposition good has arisen. Our local paper wrote favorably for the Working Men's Club in a strong and clever leader, but the licensed victualed did not approve of it and interviewed tho editor, But the story is best told by a cartoon which appeared in a shop window, an 4 which represents onr worthy and taJii editor sleeping in his arm chair, and beiag',visited by two large casks, on one of wlijchi is written "whisky" and 011 tho obiter: " brandy " while, peeping over the* bops: of the casks are the heads of two. wellknown publicans. What passed ih thos interview need not be stated, but the endi was creditable to the gentlemau of tho: pea.