THE RETURN OF A CELEBRITY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4621, 26 October 1883, Page 2

THE RETURN OF A CELEBRITY.

- Who of those who landed in Dunedia in its younger days does not remember Shadrach Jones of the Provincial Hotel. Eight bars: e?f>ht pretly barmaids (fix of them married to fortunes ; takings, £800 a day; expenses, £150 per diem for its management. Shakedowns everywhere— in the billiard rooms ; in the kitchen ; in the stables (the stablesby night a theatre); in the landings ; in the passages;-—where-ever a pair of blankets could be strettihed : there was an occupant at four shillings a - .: night for the use of flcDring boards. Breakfast, four shillings; dinner, fire, having to wait half an hour, to get a plate of meat, even if it then could be got without one waiter snatching the plate O. from another. Shadrach went to England, ... stayed there twenty years, and ia once ; more iv Dune din. Mr Jones was, perhaps," the most widely known man in Otago in the days of the gold-digging excitement. > He brought over the All-England Eleven to play cricket in Dunrdin; be took a lead*, ing part in organising the great champion: : race meeting, when the " big event " of 1000 soys. attracted horses from Australia and all parts of New Zealand; he had a great deal to do with the opening and carrying on of the celebrated Vaox hall ■ f Gardens; and in numberless -ways the name of Mr Shadrach Jones' was -eon" , stantly before th 6 publio in'connectiea with all kinds of movements, speculations,, i and organisations.—P.B. Herald.■■■:.: ;