LEGAL & MAGISTERIAL NOTES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 608, 11 September 1902, Page 23

LEGAL & MAGISTERIAL NOTES

SLY-GBOG BAID. In Dunedin last week the police ra ded three of the eating-houses in that city, and in two secured beer or spirits, and charges for) sly-grog selling will follow. It appears that three of the men from the % Wellington Training School sent to Dunedin were provided with khaki uniforms, and sent rotund to entrap those supposed to supply drink as well as. food, with the result as above. A HAWEBA CONVICTION. On the 3rd inst., in the Auckland Supreme Court, Michael Ryan, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Hawera, made application through counsel for a rule nisi, calling upon H. Eyre Kenny, S.M., and C. A. Clarke to show cause why they should not be prohibited from proceeding upon or in respect of a conviction made against him, at Hawera, on an information laid by Clarke, of selling liquor to a person already in a state of intoxication. Four charges had been laid against Ryan of supplying youths with liquor, and also one of supplying a man already intoxicated. Three of the first four charges were dismissed, and in respect of the other two charges Ryan was convicted and fined on both. The motion was based on the fac.. that the charge of supplying the intoxicated person was heard after the hearing of the other case, hut before the delivery of the judgment which had been deferred. It was contended that as the two charges arose out of the same transaction, and as the same witnesses were called in each case, the second case should not have been heard, before judgment was given in the first case, x His Honor Mr Justice Conolly granted a rule nisi. A CONSTABLE PAYS COSTS. At the Invercargill Supreme Court, on the 3rd inst., Jamesl O’Dowd, of Tapanui, sued William Matheson, a constable, for £2OO damages for seizure and retention of documents under search warrant for discovery of liquor in a slv-grog selling case. The constable latterly admitted he was wrong, and paid £5 and a su!m for costs into The documents were cheque-books and some receipts and invoices, which defendant removed from a drawer, and retained in spite of plaintiff’s protestations. The jury gave a verdict for the sum paid into Court, and costs £7 7s. CITY LICENSING COMMITTEE. '.'fl. ■ The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee for the district of the City of Auckland was held at the Magistrate’s Courthouse on the 2nd inst. The members present were : Messrs H. W. Brabant, S.M. (chairman), G. Aickin, P. E. Cheal, M. Casey, and A; Rosser. Mr Ralfe acted as clerk of the committee, and Sub-In-spector Mitchell represented the police. Transfers : The following applications for transfers of licenses were granted, the police reports being favourable in each case :—Park Hotel street), James Williams to James Ormond; Star Hotel (Albert-street), Henry George Keith to Charles Clark ; Bricklayers’ Arms Hotel (Chapel-street), James Verrail to Charles Joseph Molloy ; Albiorf Hotel (Hobson-street), Charles Murcott to Joseph Molloy ; Britomart Hotel (Custom-street East), Joseph Molloy to Walter Dyer; Criterion Hotel (Albertstreet), Francis O’Dowd to William. James Brewin. Mr Baxter appeared in support of all the applications, with the exception of the last-named, in which Air AlcVeagh appeared. Fire Escape’s, Etc. : The police reported that the requirements specified at the last meeting of the committee in reference to fire escapes and repairs had been satisfactorily carried out in the cases of the following hotels : —Queen’s Head, Prince Arthur, Aurora, Waverley, Globe, Occidental, Grosvenor, Queen’s, and Suffolk. In the case, of the Ponsonby Club Hotel the mateer of the completion of the enclosure of the balcony to the satisfaction of the committee was left to a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs Cheal. and :i Casey. AUSTRALIAN WINE IN ENGLAND. The ordinary Australian wine is not conspicuous for its cheapness in the United Kingdom ; some of it is remarkably dear. It has been ably pushed by advertising, and by the appointment . of o-rocers as agents for a few enterprising firms. The consuming public has learned that there is usually more robustness, more, strength, in a flagon of Australian than in a bottle of French wine. Perhaps, also, sympathy with the colonists may have prompted the importation of Australian wines. The great bulk of them are landed at strengths between twenty and twenty-four degrees : twenty-two showing i

highest, with 162,922 gallons. Fortification is practically unknown, the imports at the higher rate of duty only amounting to 469 gallons.—('* Country Brewers’ Gazette.” )'