ALLEGED GAMING HOUSES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13948, 3 January 1906, Page 5

ALLEGED GAMING HOUSES.

MONDAY’S RAID. The hearing of the charges arising out of the police raids on Monday of alleged “tote shops,” or common gaming houses, was commenced yesterday at the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., when, remands were granted in each instance, on the application of the police. Matthew Livingstone was first charged “that, within the space of six months last past, to wit, on December 26, at Christchurch, being the occupier of a room situated in Hereford Lane, he had kept and used the same as a common gaming house, a place for gaming within the meaning of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881.” He pleaded not guilty, and was remanded till January 9, bail being renewed in £IOO. Matthew Barnett and Peter Grant were similarly charged with respect to December 27 and premises known as 163, Hereford Street. A similar remand was granted and the same bail, £IOO, renewed in each case. Maurice Hislop (Mr Donnelly), charged with assisting in the management of a common gaming house in Colombo Street, on January 1, pleaded not guilty, and was remanded with the other cases. His bail, £5, was also renewed. Charges of being found in a common gaming house in Colombo Street ou January 1 wore then called against J. E. B. Robinson, Edward Diggs William Alexander, Edward Bates, Henry Hensley, Charles Isaacs, Bernard O’Brien and Frederick Brown. They pleaded not guilty, and were remanded till January 9, bail being allowed, each in £5.