WAIKOUAITI LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 8

WAIKOUAITI LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The annual meetiug of the W&ikoaait) Licensing Committee was held in the court* house, Poet Chalmers, on Thursday afternoon' present — Messrs B. H. Carew, S.M. (chairman), J. Cable, W. J. Harrison, J. Porteous, and Key. W. S. Lucas.

New Application. — Peter Nelson made application for a license for the house known as Copney's Hotel, Portobello. There being no objectiou a 10 o'clock license was g[ anted.

Transfer. — A transfer from John Collins to Patrick M'Kay for the George Hotel wan granted.

.Renewals. — Eleven o'clock licensed were granted to William J. Water?, Port Chalmers Hotel ; KUen Chick, Chick's Hotel; R&bert Sharp, Marine Hotel; David Leech, Provincial IJotel; Patrick M'Kay, Gsorge Hotel. Ten o'clock licenses W6ie granted to Benjamin D. Lightbourne, Crescent Hotel, Mwasfordtcwn ; Patrick Toomey, Golden Fleece Hotel, Waikoualti: Michael Kanf, Railway Station- Hotel, Wai. kouaiti ; and to John A. Ain^e, Seaeliff Hotel. Wholesale License. — Wiiliam Sutton made application for a wholesale license. Mr Plaits appeared for the applicant, and tho license was granted.

Mr Pkani, M.H R , in a recent speech at Patmerston North, objected to the appointment by Government" of cer> am persons to the beech of justices. One man- appointed, ha said, was a reoipienl; of charitable aid at tha timo, while another was in a chronic &tate of drunkenn'es» for years before, and another had kept wh»fc was known as a " lambing-down pub."

" Don Santiago de Ochoa " continues to send out his swindiieg letters from Valencia, Spain, in the effort to induce people in the colonies to assist; him in " rescuing a sum of 650,000 francs which I was forced to bide in the neighbourhood of your town about six months ago." The latest inatancd is a letter received l>y Mr William Searlfc, of Sfcuarb street, *nd the letter is addressed to Mr Searle at Inver« ctrgiil, which town he left a year or two since.

At the close of the weekly meeting of the Christian Endeavour Society in connection with fchtt Green Island Presbyterian Church on Monday evening Miss Flossie Blair ' was pre* sented with a handsome gold brooch and some books. The presentation was made by Mr J. Graham (in the absence of Dr Watt), on behalS of the teachers of the Sabbath school and friends in the congregation, in recognition e£ tb.9 young lady's voluntary and gratuitous^ services at tha organ in the Sabbath school on special occasions. Mr A. M'Kiulay suitably responded for the^recipient.