LICENSING COURT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 22 April 1874, Page 2

LICENSING COURT.

Tuesday, April 21. The Court was composed of E. H. Carew, Esq., R.M., Alexander Stewart, Esq., J.P., W. E. Farrer, Esq., and M. Fraer, Esq. LAWRENCE TOWN. James Harris. — Application for bottle license. No objection. Granted. Mrs. Clark. — Application for publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. ~' Thomas Arthur. — Application for bottle license. No objection. Granted. J. C. Roberts. — Application for publican's license. / Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. — The same for night license. No objection. Granted. Margaret Donevan. — Application for publican's license.^ Mr. Gooday appeared for the applicant. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. — Same for night license. No objection. Granted. Edward Herbert. — Application for wholesale license. No objection. Granted. Alexander Armstrong. — Application for publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. — Same for night license. No objection. Granted. _ Archibald M'Kinlay. — Application for bottle license. No objection. Granted. John Roughan. — Application for publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. — The same for night license. No objection. Granted. F. H. Meyer. — Application for bottle license. No objection. Granted. LAWRENCE DISTRICT. William Houstin. — Application for publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient ; but license undesirable, as the house was near the new railway works, and there was a good deal of disorderly conduct rife in the neighborhood — not necessarily caused by this house. ,The applicant had held a license for two ancVa half years, and had not been convicted under the Licensing Ordinance of any offence. Mr. Inspector Thompson repeated that there was nothing objectionable in the applicant personally. Granted. Joseph Gardner. — Application for a publican's license. Mr. M'Coy appeared for the applicant. Report : The accommodation sufficient ; but the conduct of the house was not good. The applicant had been twice fined for offences against the Licensing Ordinance, and in other respects the conduct of the house was not satisfactory. Mr. M'Coy pointed out that the house was near the railway works, which had caused a sudden influx of population of the laboring class, which rendered it very difficult to conduct the business of a house in as orderly a manner a 9 under ordinary circumstances. There were many shanties about, to which much of the disorderly conduct of that neighborhood might be traced, and the stigma occasioned thereby attached wholly to the licensed house. The applicant had "been for some years licensed,

but until the sudden increase of the population, owing to the railway works, there had been no complaint against him. The depriving him of his license would ruin- him. The offences of which he had been convicted were of a most venial character, and would not call for the loss of his license, which, would be as much as he would suffer had they been of the gravest character. Postponed for fourteen days.

Mark Higgins. — Application .a for bottle license. No objection. Granted. — Application for a wholesale license postponed for one month. Mr. M'Coy afterwards applied that the wholesale license might be granted in respect of some new premises. After some conversation, the matter was allowed to stand over.

Robert Coghill. — Application for publican's license. Report : Accommodation sufficient, character good. Granted. George Watson. — Application forpublican's licence. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient, but building very old. Granted. Applicant was advised to improve the premises before next licensing day. John Morris. — Application for a publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient, but building very old. Granted. Applicant was advised to improve the building before the next licensing day. Wi'.laimMorris. — Application for publican's license. Report '• Character good, accommodation sufficient, but uncleanly. Granted. Same for night license. No objection. Granted.

Joseph Dewes. — Application for a bottle license. No objection. Granted. William Duff. — Application for a bottle license. No objection. Granted. T. Hammond. — Application for a publican's license. Mr. Copland appeared for the applicant. Report : Character good, accommodation nearly, but not quite, complete, in course of completion. Granted. James Chalmers. — Application for publican's license. Report : Accommodation sufficient, character good. Granted. James Rae. — Application for publican's license. Mr. Holmes said he appeared for the applicant. Mr Gooday objected to any one but a barrister or solicitor being allowed to appear for one who did not appear in person. The Court agreed with Mr. Gooday, but said that, as this was the first sitting under the Act, there might be some mistake. They would not, therefore, pass over the application. Adjourned for 14 days, to allow applicant to appear personally, or by counsel. Sinclair M'Beath. — Application for a publican's license. Mr. Henderson appeared for the applicant. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted.

Johanna Lewis. — No appearance in person, or by counsel. Adjourned for 14 days. Henry M'Cay, John Johnson, Roberfc Cotton, Ellen Humphrey, Thomas Reynolds, Joseph Cox, Robert Grieve, and Ellen M'Swiney. — Applicants for licenses neither personally, or by counsel. Their applications were adjourned for 14 days. .-Margaret Dickson. — Application for a publican's license. Mr. Henderson appeared for the applicant. Report :<-Character good, accommodation nearly complete, and in course of completion. Granted.

John Cranley. — Application for publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient, but house very old. Granted.

John Shumate. — Application for pub lican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted.

A. M'Nickle. — Application for a bottle license. Mr. Gooday agpeared for the applicant. No objection. Granted. Thomas Hindes. — Application for publican's license. Mr. M'Coy appeared for the applicant. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted.

David Evans. — Application for a publican's license. Report : Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. James Hopkins. — Application for a publican's license. Report: Character good, accommodation sufficient. Granted. John Lowe. — Application for a bottle license. No objection. Granted. Chew Ling. — Application for a bottle license. No objection. Granted. Wong On. — Application for a publican's license. Report : Character good, but the house had no stables attached. On Tie would would give the use of his stables. Granted. — Same for night license. Granted. James Smith Vial. — Application for a publican's license. Report : Accommodation sufficient, character good. Granted. Andrew Taylor. — Application for a publican's license. Mr. Gooday appeared for the applicant. Report : Character good, accommodation not sufficient. iVIr. Gooday would instruct his client forthwith to complete accommodation. Granted. John Lomas. — Application for a bottle license. Mr. Henderson appeared for the applicant. The application had only been lodged about a fortnight. Mr. Henderson pointed out that no time was limited by the Act within which an application for a bottle license should be applied for. The matter stands over for fourteen days. Christian Long. — Application for a publican's license for the Eureka Hotel, Wether--stones. Mr. M'Coy appeared for the applicant*. The application had not been sent in time. Mr. M'Coy argued that the section of the Act stating that the application should be sent in on a certain day was directory morely. The application had been in in sufficient time for the Application to be duly advertised, though that had not been done. In support of the argument that the' Act was directory, he quoted Pearce v. Morris, and Rex v. Justices of Leicestershire. As to the officer not having advertised the application, that was not Long's fault ; it was an act of omission of the officer of the Court, and curia meminem gravabit. Adjourned for fourteen days.