THE TE AWAMUTU LICENSE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 665, 16 September 1876, Page 3

THE TE AWAMUTU LICENSE.

Sir, I am not at Jill aurpri»ed at you haying to oft«n to apobgizo to tlie public for being «hort of ai>acn, when you allow your paper to be flllod up with »ucb lettera a* there appearad ia Thuraday'a from Mr Cummii-g, and again last Tueada\ tignod Freo 'I rade. 1 did not take any none© of Mr Cumming'* letter, a> I thought it wai a hard case when a brewer .cannot hare tbe control over a publican, and therefore I wjb not mrprisrd th*t Mr Cuinmiug gave way to hi* fevluiga ; but wh«n I aaw a letter signed Free Trade, I wu asionnhed that iuch falaefcooda should hare been written to a public paper, aa during the two year* I have been here there b«a been only oue night that all the beda in the hou»e were occupied. At the came time there were plenty of blankets and bedding to tparc. I hare fif reen bod* mad* up for tr&vellera, and I man safely raj that 1 don't average fivo ahillingi taken per woek for them. At regard-* the table, I need not say anything, aa it ia well known to b« aa good a table at any in the YVa kato botcla. The buds, I cm> iufelj aay, will be found better than in any hotel between this t»nd Auckland. Aa regard* tbe attack navle on the Cornmiatiioner*, it is well known that they *ro Old Idemitie*, and they know tho Tcqturemeut* of the plaoc. They also •l»no*whit »coommo.lntion lhei-e wua ut Ohanp ) when I bought the phca. Any •table looka better than that hotel did, and a* aoon as 1 cmid here made alterations an I did evertthing that luia been done to the p-eajnt time. Th<«y a'so Jen >w the bcitly and dtigraceful accommodation fher«» was hrre previous to my coming, but Mr Cuuiining ould nor sue that hb long as l>ia beer waa taken. Neither •ouu d Frutr Trade find fault with the accommodation, bftt now tbat I hate spent -thoutanda of pounda for the accommodation of the public, they hav«> got the impudence to try to condemn tho plaoo nureiy for aelfish motivot. A* regard* i two hju-ea in K.hikilri, threo in "Cambridge and two in Ngiru-iwal-i^ the proji of the -pudding u iv the caiing. All these house* imanuge to pay their way and a little more, but in thu pi cc no man tnudo more than a mere existence and tho m»j->nty of iheji, not that. Bv inserting tho above you will gievly oblige. — I am &c. U Xiiwu, Proprietor Cent ml Waiknto Hotel. T« >>pt 15th, 1576.