THE CLUB HOTEL. It is now some weeks since Mr D. McGuinness, the well and favourably known licensed victualler of Timaru, took over the business and management of the Club Hotel, situate at the corner of George street and the Main Eoad. Since shifting into the hotel, Mr McGuinness has had both the exterior and interior thoroughly renovated, repaired, and re painted, so that the building is now m almost as first-class an order as it wns the day it left the contractor's hands. Of improvements there have been many, the most important of which has been the doing away of the billiard room, and con verting it into one of the handsomest, and well-appointed dining rooms there is to be found m any hostelry m South Canterbury, The dining-room has both a public and private entrance, the former leading from the hall, and the latter from George street. The room is well lit at night by a splendid chandelier, and off the Bouth-east corner of it is the manager's office, the "settling up" window of which is situate to the left of the rear door of the dining-room. As the kitchen, pantry, etc., lie so close to the room named, the whole arranee ment is found to be very convenient. The private bar formerly at one end of the billiard room has been shifted to what was the old dining-room, which at once makes a bar of a most comfortable kind, being commodious, well-finished, fitted and furnished, and very convenient. The parlours and sitting-rooms adjacent to the public bar have been very prettily papered and painted and the walls white-washed, the whole having a cleanly and airy appear ance. In the passage leading to this bar the awkward "step" m the middle has been done away with, the new floor put down leadiDg level from the main entrance door to the bar. Ascending to the first floor the visitor finds that the very com modious sitting-room, the windows of which look out on the Main Road and George street, has been entirely re furnished, and is henceforth to be used as a commercial, smoking, and reading room, on the table of which is to ba found all the leading colonial, inter colonial, and Home papers, a convenience which ia thought very highly of by travellers, visitors, and the public generally. 