THE CHALMERS LICENSING PETITION
. [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.j Dunebin, Tuesday. The decision of Mr. Justice Williams in the case heard before him last week for an application for prohibition to - restrain Mr. C. C., Graham, S.M., from proceeding to hear the Chalmers licensing petition, _ on the ground that he had no jurisdiction, was received from Invercargill to-day. His Honor thought the reference in sections 12 arid 18 of the Regulation of Local Elections Act was to the magistrate who usually presided in the Court, and that powers . were conferred upon such magistrates, and not upon any magistrate who, at the request of, or by arrangement with, the magistrate usually presiding presides iii his stead. No doubt it was possible to imagine cases in which it would be difficult br impossible to say what particular : magistrate was referred to, but in the present case there was no difficulty in ascertaining that Mr. Carew and not Mr. Graham was the magistrate at Port Chalmers. _ Plaintiff was entitled to a writ of prohibition, with £15 costs and disbursements to be paid by the defendants other than Mr. Graham,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12210, 4 March 1903, Page 5
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