Trade Topics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 852, 5 July 1906, Page 20

Trade Topics

Messrs. Hamilton Gilmer and Allan Maguire have purchased the freehold of the Albert Hotel, at the corner of Upper Willis-street and Boulcottstreet, Wellington. We publish elsewhere a copy of the portion of the Alcoholic Liquor Sales Control Act as it will have to be observed in the Grey Lynn district. * * * * In the S.M. Court, Cambridge, last week, W. Matheson was fined for assaulting Mr. W. H. McKenzie, licensee of the National Hotel. s- * •* * Manchester has the largest free library in England. There are in all over 180.000 volumes.

At the adjourned meeting of the Taieri Licensing Committee the expressed will of the people at the local option poll was given effect to by the reduction of three licenses. The house aclosed Xwere jt’he Kaikorail Junction at Burnside saleyards; the Coach and Horses at Saddle Hill, one of the houses at which coaches drew up in the olden days; and O’Donell’s Hotel at Allanton.

In the Eden electorate the Licensing Committee have closed the New Lynn Hotel at New Lynn, in consequence o|f rtedi|ction Jiaying been carried in that district last December.

Two houses had to go in Manukau where reduction was also carried. The ones the Commissioners decided to close were the Victoria Hotel and Royal Hotel, both in the Onehunga district.-

In the S.M. Court, Rotorua, last week, Arthur Colan pleaded guilty to charges of setting fire to and stealing from the Geyser Hotel. He was committed for sentence to the Auckland Supreme Court.

At the Te Awamutu Magistrate’s Court last week, before Mr. H. W. Northcroft, S.M., James Jackson, licensee of the Te Awamutu Hotel, was charged under section 24 of the Licensing Act, 1895, with supplying liquor to a native who was already in a state of intoxication. Mr. Collins for the defence stated that the licensee was not aware that drink had taken effect. In reply to this, the magistrate held that any person on entering into the hotelkeeping business, it was calculated that such person was an expert, and could use his discretion and detect when drink was taking effect on people at the bar. Jackson was convicted, and fined £5, and costs £7 Is.

In Wellington last week a man named Hugh Miller was bound over to keep the peace for six months. Defendant had threatened to shoot the licensee and the barman of the Park Hotel.

By the no-license vote in Grey Lynn, the Eden Vine Hotel, at the city end of Mount Eden-road, was closed last Saturday.

An application for a wholesale license in the city was withdrawn at the adjourned meeting last Friday.

In Melbourne recently Mr. Bent stated that the Government would give no money for local option polls until the new Licensing Bill had been introduced. He complained that only £7OOO of the £20,000 advanced from revenue to assist the licensing funds of the municipalities in connection with the old Local Option Act (with compensation) had been returned.

When granting a prohibition order at Invercargill last week, Mr. E. S. McCarthy, S.M., stated that he would make it apply to the no-license district of Mataura, as well as other parts of Southland, pointing out that it was just as well that this course was adopted should there be any shebeenkeepers in the Mataura district. * * * * An application for a wholesale license at Dargaville was refused by the Kaipara Licensing Committee last week. * * * * The Waikouaiti Licensing Committee met last Friday to hear, under order of the Supreme Court, an application for the renewal of the accommodation license for the Railway Hotel, Waianakora, refused at the annual meeting. The committee under section 63 took objection to granting a license on the ground that the premises have not been maintained at the required standard, are out of repair, and insufficiently furnished. It was decided to serve notice on the owner and adjourn to July 11 to consider the objections. * * * * The Clerk of the Court at Auckland has been appointed as the officer to receive notices of the sale of lipuor intended to be supplied into the Grey Lynn no-license district, in accordance with the provisions of the Licensing Act Amendment Act of 1904 which requires the Clerk of the Court to be furnished with a statement in writing of the nature and quantity of liquor to be sent into the district, together with the name and address of the person ordering the same, or to whom the liquor is sent. * * * * At Taumaranui last Saturday, before Mr. Northcroft, S.M., several persons were convicted and fined for slygrog selling. The fines varied from 20/ to £5O. * * * * The Hokitika bye-election is fixed for the 13th inst. Nominations close to-day. * * * * Royal Hotel, Tirau, destroyed by fire last week. * * * * In Wellington last week Dr. McArthur, S.M., sentenced a young man named William Smith to six months imprisonment for thefts of clothing, etc., from three hotels in that city. * * * * The Customs Department held their annual stock-taking of goods in bonded warehouses last Monday and Tuesda. On these days the bonds were closed. * * * * It has been suggested in prohibition circles in Wellington that seeing that there are already two candidates in the field for the Westland seat, Mr. T. Taylor, of Christchurch, might also consent to nomination. * Mr. Michel the candidate for the Westland seat, who is opposing Mr. T. Y. Seddon, has contradicted a rumour that he was a candidate of the temperance party. * * * * By cable it is reported from London that Messrs. Hancock and Co., of this city, are issuing at par £130,00 in 5J per cent, debenture stock to acquire the Captain Cook Brewery. * * * * Onehunga residents entertained Constable and Mrs. O’Sullivan on the eve of their departure to Raglan, to which place Constable O’Sullivan has been transferred. During the evening Mr. John Rowe, the Mayor, presented to Mrs. O’Sullivan a handsome and worthy token of the appreciation in which she and her husband were held by Onehunga residents and other friends.