Tologa Bay.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 3, 14 June 1887, Page 2

Tologa Bay.

The Annual Licensing Meeting was hell at Tologa Bay on Saturday last. Mr James Booth, R.M. presided. Messrs Reeves and Stopford, J.P’s., and Mr H. Glover, Native Assessor, also occupied seats on the Bench. Applications for new licenses were received from Mrs S. M. Wilson and Mr Scrivener, for hotels to be erected upon the Haiti. The police, represented by Sergeant Bullen, opposed the applications on the ground that the said licenses are not necessary. Alter consideration the licenses were refused. Mr Michael Mullooly, of the Sea View Hotel, applied for a transfer of his licence to Mr H. Williams. This was opposed by the police, but after some discussion, the transfer was granted by the Bench. The civil business was of an unimportant nature, judgment for the plaintiff's being accorded in a number of small cases. The only criminal charge waf one of Hale v. Reeves, for allowing sheep to wander on the public roads of the township. Judgment in this case had been reserved from the previous sitting of the Court to decide the question as to whethr Hale was the proper person to lay the information. The judgment now given was that Mr Reeves pay the nominal fiue of Is and costs 6s. Mr Reeves gave notice of appeal. A Native for pig stealing was fined £8 61 Bd, treble the value of the animal, or in default of payment within a week, two months imprisonment. The R.M. and Sergeant Bullen went on to Awanui on Saturday afternood. It is expected that they will be back in Gisborne by about Sunday next.