Private Hotel (Mrs Cecilia Jenkin, proprietress), corner of Wansbeck and Tyne Streets, opposite the old Railway Station, Oamaru. This building is of stone, is two stories in height, and contains about thirty rooms. The large dining room on the ground floor will seat thirty guests. On the ground floor there is also a very large sitting room, a small private sitting room, the kitchen, and scullery and five bedrooms. There are seventeen bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor, and at the back of the hotel there is a three-stall stable, with a large yard. The hotel is well conducted and a good table is kept. The proprietress, who was born in Scotland, accompanied her parents to Port Chalmers in the sixties by the ship “Henrietta.” She was brought up at Brighton, near Dunedin, and has had considerable experience in the management of hotels and boarding-houses. Mrs. Jenkin has three sons and two daughters.

Star And Garter Hotel (Alexander Potter, proprietor), Itchen Street, Oamaru. P.O. Box 68. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia. This well-known hostelry was one of the first established in Oamaru, and has been conducted by the present proprietor since 1894. It is a three-storey building of Oamaru stone, and has a large frontage to Itchen Street, with two private entrances, besides the back entrance. The house contains thirty-five rooms, which are located on the first and second floors, and there are three parlours upstairs. On the ground floor, there are five sitting-rooms, and a large dining-room, with seating accommodation for from fifty to sixty guests. The hotel has three bathrooms, with hot and cold water laid on. There is also a gentlemen's club-room, and the airy, well-lighted billiard-room contains two of Alcock's best tables. There are five sample rooms and a capital commercial room, and the kitchen and out-offices are very complete. The “Star and Gartor” is, in fact, recognised as the commercial house of Oamaru.