SECOND EDITION PEACE CONFERENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 18, 23 January 1919, Page 1

SECOND EDITION PEACE CONFERENCE.

I (Rec. Jan. 25, 3.20 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 22. I President Wilson addressed’ the. Con- | ference on the Russian situation, out* ! lining a plan. It is understood that Mr Uoyd George fears military intervention would ledd to the creation of a national army t bn the lines of the French Revolution. ' French opinion urges support' Iqr "the Poles, thereby limiting the spread of Bolshevism. The Conference reached/ an agreement I regarding Russia in the form of inviting ail the de facto Governments, including the Bolsheviks, to send representatives, provided they prove,;they are not conducting war outside their own territory.

j LICENSING CASE. m

(United Press Association.J "' BLENHEIM, Thaa,l%^ 1 An important decision .for Hotel keepers was given by Mr J. S.' ■ E&aunsj SAL, to-day. The licensee of' hakipawa Hotel was charged with kqep- ’ ing open premises for the sale pX toxicating liquor after six o’clock;'’ A lodger and three-other persons :,eptered the hotel at nine o’clock 'ami I asked for drinks. The licensee supplied I so ft drinks, exposing the liquors in, 'the bar. ' ■ ■ ■ ■■■;■: The Magistrate was satisfied . with the bona-fides of the licensee, and , copI victed the three persons for being * un- | lawfully on licensed premises, holding I that they had' gone in for the purport} j of trying to' obtain intoxicants,, and the I entry was illegal. ' -' % I He" dismissed the informations again^fe S the licensee, holding that the leaving |of the sidedoor open was a breach, lof the Act, that the exposure of tfie | liquor bar on the sale of soft drinks j was not, in the circumstances, exposure I for sale of intoxicants. The presunip-' | tion of ariy person that he could hare

bought intoxicants was negatived by the evidence. - - *