The Waikato Hotel, built at East Hamil. ton, for Mr Le Quesne, the largest most substantial, and haudsomest building of its kind in the provincial district outside of the City of Auckland will be opened for business this week by Mr Buck. The building itself is three storied and of brick stuccoed, and has a large frontage to both Grey and Clyde-streets. It is very similar in appearance to the Waite mata Hotel in Queen-street, Auckland, though much larger, and is really a very commodious and handsome building. It was designed by Mr Vialou and built by Mr Thorpe, both of Hamilton, has every modern convenience attached to it, and is provided even with fire escapes, while the erection of large cisterns on the roof would render it comparatively easy to extinguish a fire at once in case of accident. There are four street entrances to the hotel, the principal one being in Grey street for the use of the inmates. This opens into a vestabule with large and spacious hall beyond, a dining room 29ft 6in x 16ft, divided off at will with folding doors into two rooms being to the right, and the bar to the left. The principal entrance to the latter is in the circular comer of the two Btreets. It is by far the finest bar room in Waikato, handsomely fitted with circular counter and suitable furniture, and beyond it is a large tap room, having also communica tion with the side entrance and passage leading to the stair case up to the Hamil ton Hall, which is contained in the second storey of the hotel. On the ground floor and below the hall is a room of the same size some 50ft x 30ft, the billiard room, quite large enough for two tables, in which at present one of Alcock's best is being put up. This room is well lighted and wanned, and will no doubt be a great source of attraction. In the rear of the dining room is a passage, and on the other side of that the buttery, into which is an open window into the kitchen beyond, so that the dinner can be passed through direct from the dining room hot as it comes from the cook. 