Licensing Mattars.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12337, 20 August 1903, Page 3

Licensing Mattars.

A IVARNTENO TO SP.IRIT MMCTCCHANTH. Per Press Association. OUristchuvch. Aug'i^t IS. Mr Hasel,dcn gavo judgment in the case in which Cross, a wine and «p i r i t /nertlhant, was charged with soliciting orders for liquor in the A«-hburton district by means of an advorti.-o-ment. The S.M. sakl it sewn or) to him the same as if defemlant ha,d placarded the town with bills, or employed sandwich men. If the Act wa^ to be interpreter! in a fair and reasonable spirit defendant's aft was a. contravention of the law. As it was the first case of the kind the fme would only be £5 ami costs. ALLEGED BIftRACH OF LICENSING ACT. Chrislichairch, August IS. Frank Mulhollartd, licensee of th« Bower Hotel, Burwood, was charged with supply ing- drink to two men, not lodgers, not travellers. Each of the men gave his version of ,his> business | at the hotel, and declared no money passed. The S.JM. said he did not believe the men's story, but iro face of recent decisions there was not sufficient ovi,clence to convict. | CjhrisftchurGh, August 19. In banco to-iday Judge Denniston allowed an aftponl agaioist the conviction of the Stipendiary Magistrate, for ' a publican having supplied two men who had rirklen 7i- miles with drinks on a Ktrmlay. The mm admitted they had ridden from New Brighton for a drink, but this was not known to thn publican, arid the Juldge Kaicl lie'cmili'l not see why thn men who chose a Runtday evening ,to take a bicycle rid'j 7^- miles and bacsk, mid before returning call at a public house' for a small glass of shandy gafT. are to bo presumed to have 'done p.o merclv- because they defi-irqc! to go to a public hotmo and obtain drink. Thp J.udgp was al<*o of opinion tihat the njuWicnn believed the men were bona fide traivellers and todk all reasonable precautions.