NORTHERN WAIROA. TE Kopuru, May 2nd.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5804, 5 May 1876, Page 3

NORTHERN WAIROA. TE Kopuru, May 2nd.

Tun monthly Court of Petty Sessions was held here on the 2i)th mst., befom Mi T. S Webb, «I.P. (Chairmau), and Messrs. Frank Bradley, and J. A. Walker, Justices, when the lollowing cases wpip heard nnd disposed ot :- Bkf.acu of thk LtrhS^iMi A< r. —Joseph llaynes, of the Kaihu Hotel, \v:is chaiged In Police Constable Madill with :i bieach of the Licensing Act ot the Auckland. Provincial Lounoil ot the year 1S71. clause US, by supplying, on Snnday, March li)th, certain alcoholic liquor to Henry Harrison, Charles Adamsou (lately deceased), Daniel McSherry, and Ephrann Vemon, in his licensed house, at Kaihu, on the dace above mentioned, they no 1 ; being bmui tide travellers or lodgers thoi cm, contrary to the form of the Statute in such ease made and provided. — Defendant pleaded not guilty. — George Edmoudsou, barkeeper, Kaihu, having been sworn, depu&cd : .Remember Sunday, March 19th. Adamson was supplied with drink at the Kaihu Hotel that day He had shandygati. Mr. Kaynes supplied him, and E. Vernon and uiybolf were supplied at the same time. Adamson was supplied with only one glass. J do not consider he was drunk when 1 supplied him. He had it in a little room otT the bar. I did not think him drunk, though it was evident he lnd been drinking. He left during the tune I was there. He was not boarding at the house. He was drinking with a boarder. — Ephiaim Vernon, baker, Kaihu, swoin: I remember March 19- Was in company with Charles Adamson. I was supplied with beer at the hotel. I was a resident in the hotel. Adamson had some shandygaff, but he did not dunk it : it was thrown over the counter. There were no others present. Do not remember Edmonson being there at the time I was with Adamson. Adamson was the woiae for liquor, but he was not drunk. He only stayed about 10 minutes.— Henry Hau-ibon, boatbuilder, Xorthein Waiioa. sworn : On March 19 I wa-> in company with Cluiles Adamson, at Kaihu. There were other persons present. We were in a sort of storeroom. 1 was -npplied with a glass of shandygaff. The deceased, Charles Adainson, had one, also. The others were not sup plied with dunk in my sight. I advised Adamson to come into the boat with me, but he would not. f left him standing tlieie. T w as not a lodger. I consider Adamson was cipablc ot taking caic ot himseU. — Daniel MeSheiiy, biishman, Northern Wairoa, sworn, said : On the 19th March I was at the Kaihu Hotel, in company with Mr. Harrison and Clus. Adamson. I was supplied by Mi-. Kaynes with aglass of bper. I do not know what Adamson drunk. Adamson was not drunk when I left him at the hotel. This was between 4 and 5 o'clock I had been .it the hotel about an houi. J leit the Kopuru for Kaihu on the Sunday — Mr. Raynos stated, m his defence, that he did not know whether these men were travellers or not, also that when the}' and others came to hi.s house, especially if they had been drinking, it was almost impossible to make them go away without 1-tting them have something, and that he did all he could to avoid letting them have drink, but that he could not always succeed. — The Bench considered the charge pioved, as far as Adimson and Harrison were concerned, and fined the defendants £o and costs. A similar charge \va3 brought against Mr. Downing, of the Mangawhaie Hotel. —The Bench, after hearing several witnesses, found thab the charge was nolb^rao out by the iw-lence - - This concluded the business of the Court. My attention' has been called to a report of a meeting of the ""'Me Society "' (1 think), which appeared in last weeks paper, and, amongst things, it was mentioned that the .society's colporteur who recently visited this river met with opposition and hindrances. He may have in some place met with perhaps a little incivility or want of cordiality, but generally speaking, he ought to speak well of his treatment on this river (Northern Wairoa), for he was hospitably entertained at several houses to my knowledge ; was taken from place to place by the Rev. Mr. Baker und others : sold all his books, and, T believe, received a .subscription towards the f unda of the society. 1 should not have mentioned this matter, except by way of caution to those who may come again on a bimilar errand, and also because I have hoard persons expressing the'r annoyanc a^ perhaps, an i..oLti'd act of incivility (i! biK.lM>ecurrod) being un ju-itly iv<Iecte'l on the whole of the people an 1 tin district. - [O,vi oorrospuadent.]