Gladstone Hotel (James Sexton, proprietor) Gladstone. This hotel was taken over by Mr. Sexton in 1880 The building, which contains about fourteen rooms, stands on some fifty acres of land. It is a favourite resort for anglers, owing to the River Ruamahunga being adjacent. Some of the best tront-fishing in the North Island is to be obtained in the locality. General Hogg and Mr. Quick, of Wellington, amongst others, make Gladstone their head-quarters in the angling season. The domestic part of this popular house is managed by Mrs. Sexton and her daughters. The host, who was born in Wales in 1834, was page 924 educated in the Island of Jamaica. He visited New Zealand in the brig “Velox” in 1854, and was afterwards trading between Sydney and Auckland in the “Moa.” In 1862 he went to the Otago goldfields, and subsequently to the West Coast. Coming to the Wairarapa in 1878, he settled in Gladstone two years later. Mr. Sexton, who has nine children, belongs to the Order of Oddfellows, being attached to the Britannia Lodge, Wanganui.