THE NEW ARGYLL HOTEL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1214, 1 December 1882, Page 2

THE NEW ARGYLL HOTEL.

Mr. T. J. Dickson, of the Argyll Hotel, has just had everything “ fixed up ” in this new and commodious hotel. Since we last had the pleasure of visiting the hotel in order to report upon the improvements, we may state that they have been excellently carried out under the super itendence of Mr Dickson, whose taste in the furnishing line would do credit to the most fastidious. Mort of the rooms that were furnished at our former visit of inspection some time ago, we gave a full account. The statuary figures or rather the paper paintings, on the walls of the hall have a very pretty effect, and the pot plants in the lobby look very nice indeed. In the commercial room downstairs the public seem to appreoiate Mr Dickson’s idea of having a copying press with all facilities for letter writing. In this room there a v, e some capital pictures, and we also observed twu veiy good paintings in oil, viz., a fox-hunting scene, and another of a gentleman driving his four-in-hand team, evidently bound for the meet of the hounds. The paintings are very highly finished, and a large variety of a similar description is shortly to be disposed of by art union : Mr .lames Browne is the importer. The brilliard-room, which is in course of erection at the back of the commer-cial-room, is now rapidly approaching completion. There will be two tables placed in this room which will be entered from the European side of the house. Above the bil-liard-room there are three commodious sample rooms. On ascending to the upper storey by a very nice flight of stairs, there is a small private office on the first landing, where the landlord intends to transact all commercial business in connection with the accounts of his establishment. On reaclrng the top of the landing, which is exceedingly well-light-ed, there is a commercial sitting-room neatly furnished with a rosewood suite, and with some excellent pictures hung round the walls. Next to this comes a private sitting-room with a bed-room attached. These rooms are also furnished in first-class style. There is a first-class piano in the sitting-room and some very good oleographs. All the windows of these rooms are draped with long lace

curtains, Thtte are also three double-bedded and two single bed-rooms fronting the principal street. There arc seven single bedrooms on this landing, all nicely anu 3>ppro-> priately furnished with all the latest improvements, and the height of the ceiling in each room is a great desideratum, being rrost conducive to the heaLh of those occupying the bed-rooms. The ventilation is good, and altogether we congratulate Mr Dickson in having such a first-class hotel. When the billiard-room and the bath rooms are finished the Argyll Hotel will in our dtnnion rank as second to nolle in Gisborrie.