ILLUMINATIONS TO-NIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1902, Page 6

ILLUMINATIONS TO-NIGHT.

The splendid illuminations at the variou» Government offloen will be again exiiibited this evening. The display at the Evening Post office, and some other privnte establishments, -will also bo repeated.

The case in /which Jerome Bacovfch, licensee of the Nag's Head Hotel, -was charged with having sold liquor after tho legal doling/ hour on the 28th July, and with having exposed liquor far sale during closed hours, was heard before Mr. W. R. Haseldon, S.M., at tlw Mag<*ttftte'n Court to-day. Defendant pleaded Not Guilty to both charges, which were taken together. Constable Cull«a stated that at twpnty.flve minutes past 11 o'clock he saw four men let out of the botel by Bacovich. On entering, he nc«rd voices at the front bar, md yrtm told by the licensee that they belonged to people from the Op^ra House, who ?je ™r a drink before t he y went to bed. The private bar was lighted, nnd liquor was fully exposed for sale. There were five young iner, end the defendant's wife ja th© bar, and some of the glasses on the counter had liquor in them Samuel CaMwell, grocer* assistant. star«d that after leaving the theatre he and a friend went to the Nag's Head fnr a drmk. He -entered tho homo at ten minutes to 11 and was inside for only nbout a quarter of an houd. Called for drink* after 11 o'clock, but the arrit" « ue3ng . serTwl Tho ««geant cime <L™ 1 ,mißUt, mißUt « s P**fc H» he thought. fITZ v CT litnI itn r es « aye •imllar cvi. <«&ce. For tbe defence, Mr. WiUorfl prove that nn ille^l sal* of liquor hud t*Wi place. Mary Jaj.e Bacovich, derenaants wife, gave evidence that *fter J>er husband had closed the private bar Hbe re-ppeiiod it in order to get refrenhttenfc for iirmelf and two of the barmaids. While bho w»i) there several young men ran'o in, and a few minutes later Serjeant Cftllen arrived. She swora positively that she refused "to sell any drink to the men, and the three glasses on the counter wer* to be used at the oirls' mipper There was nobody in the front oar. The cose was proceeding as w» went to press, Mr. H. D. Bell prosecuting for the police. Messrs. Leviea, ShallcTaes and Co. notify that they will hold a clearing sale of a. portion of the contents of a genoral store and bakery, to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2 o'olook. Tho good* hays been remevtd to their rooms, !WilUi*tM«* ior th» of uit> '