DUNEDIN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10601, 9 March 1895, Page 5

DUNEDIN NEWS.

[Pice Pbebs Association.! DUNEDIN, MaechS. The New Zealand Drug Company declares a dividend of seven and a half per cant for the half-year ending Jan. 31 and carries forward £18,453. In the case of the police against Tilbhry, for refusing admission to the police to the Shamrock Hotel after hours, Mr Carew found the caso proved, and that there was a designed arrangement by which the entry, of the police was delayed. The defendant was fined the maximum penalty, £5 and costs. At the City Police Court to-day Edward Pavell, inspector for the Benevolent Institution Trustees, was charged by Frances Howie with assaulting her on three occasions, and she prayed that the defendant might be bound over to find sureties to. keep the peace. The evidence of the plaintiff was to the effect that tha defendant had attempted undue familiarities, and in cross - examination she sho had called on a number of other women to ascertain if they had any complaint to make against him. For the defence, the contention was that the complainant, who was fiffcy-ono years of age, was actuated by venom because Favell bad found her out in & lie in not stating that her husbaud was out of gaol. The Bench found that the evidence of the complainant had been contradicted in some respects, and dismissed the case. At Tapanui to-day, before Mr Hawkins, S.M., Thomas Joseph Collins (of Hsriot), Charles Fraser Duhnetb (of Kelso), William Simmoads (of Tapanui) and Patrick M’Cann (of Tapanui) were charged with selling liquor without a license. Inspector Pardy appeared for the police, and Mr F. W. Sinclair for the defendants. Simmonds, Collins and Dunnetb pleaded guilty, Mr_ Sinclair urging that the defendants were’ deprived of their living by the exercise of prohibition, and open to be tempted by tha pressure of the public in asking to be supplied. Mr Hawkins said that if the law was against the wishes of the people, the constitutional remedy was to get the law altered. Hia duty was simply to administer it. A fine of £lO in each case was then passed. Patrick M’Cann, of Tapanui, was also charged with selling beer and whisky without a license and pleaded not guilty. In this case, a constable in plain clothes who had been at the races and made acquaintances invited them to have a drink at M’Cann’s, For the defence, M’Cann stated that what ho served to the constable was ginger wine. He admitted in crossexamination that he had received liquor from Dunedin since he lost hia license, but he did not know what had become of it. Tha Stipendiary Magistrate thought that on the whole the case had been proved, and fined the defendant in the same sum as the others. Mr Hawkins warned the parties that if they came before him again they would not be let off