HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1158, 20 June 1912, Page 21

HERE AND THERE.

At Waihi last week the firm of Innes and Company, brewers and bottlers, of Hamilton, were charged with having brewed hop beer over the standard strength in alcoholic contents provided for by the Act (.three per cent.). C. Innes entered a plea of guilty, and explained that the beverage was only decimal eight over the standard, and that no little difficulty was experienced in keeping to the exact proportion of alcohol. The magistrate pointed out that it was possible to keep below the standard by not working too close up to it. He inflicted a fine of £lO with costs.

It is wonderful what a large number of “gentlemen” appear at the Magistrate’s Court and what a large number of similarly aristocratic friends they have (says the “Lyttelton Times”). “We were not the gentlemen who created the disturbance,” said two men in the dock charged with assault. “It was 3' other gentleman who was very drunk. We can call two gentlemen to support the contention.” The witnesses said that one of the gentlemen had hit the other on the jaw—doubtless an evidence of the fondness of the British aristocracy for manly sports.

At the annual meeting of the Kaipara Licensing Committee, held at Dargaville, transfers of licenses were granted from P. J. Langley, Helensville Hotel, to H. E. Cooksey, and and from E. J. R. Smith, Terminus Hotel, to Arch. Bishop. Licenses

were issued to E. M. Leyvon, Kaukapakapa Hotel; Louis Armitage, Mangawhare Hotel; and W. R. Betts, To-

katoka Hotel. Renewals of licenses were issued to S. Mclvor, Bridge Hotel; M. O’Connor, Aratapu Hotel; T. McEwin, Kaipara Hotel; Geo. Meale, Opunake Hotel; J. Ryan, Pahi Hotel; J. W. Burdett, Tangiteroria Hotel; S. Thompson, Central Hotel; F. tel; S. Thompson, Cetnral Hotel; F. L. Hodges, Northern Wairoa Hotel; and J. N. Griffen, Kumeu Hotel. Packet licenses were issued to the steamers Aotea and Tuirangi.

The “Lake Wakatipu Mail” states that when the application for the renewal of the license of the Mandeville Hotel came on at the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee, the applicant’s solicitor asked for a reduction of the licensee fee because he only did a whisky business, i.e., he sold most of his whisky by the case to people living in the no-license ■district of Mataura. He therefore could not, it was contended, expect to make as much as the publican who got equal to twenty nips out of a bottle and retailed it at Gd -incq

The committee were not, however, influenced by such reasoning, and declined to reduce the fee.

Messrs Dwan Bros., Willis Street, Wellington, report having sold Mr P. Costin’s interest in the lease and furniture of the Taratahi Hotel, Carterton, to Mr B. Douglas, late of the Club Hotel, Masterton; Mrs Wilkinson’s interest in the lease and goodwill of the National Hotel, Lambton Quay, Wellington, to Mr Samuel Aitken, late of the Grosvenor Hotel, Wellington; Mr William Grau’s interest in the lease, etc., of the Junction Hotel, Longburn, to Mr E. J. ible, farmer, of Taihape; the lease of the Junction Hotel, Dannevirkon account of Mr Charles Baddeley, to Mr James Biggins, late of the Shamrock Hotel, Hawera; Mr. Harvey’s interest in the Royal Oak Hotel, Weber, Hawke’s Bay, to Mr C. Merrylees, formerly of the Man-

gatera; Mrs Godfrey’s interest in the Clarendon Hotel, Picton, to Mr Stout, «on: the lease of the Caledonian Ho-

,of Christchurch; the lease of the Commercial Hotel, Havelock, Marlborough, to Mr J. A. Newman, of Gisborne; the lease of the Albion Hotel, Wanganui, to Mr John Robinson, formerly of the Phoenix Hotel, Palmerston North; the lease of the Albion Hotel, Patea, to Mr J. Barrs, formerly of the Bush Inn Hotel, Nel-

tel, Napier, to Mr Fathers, of Waihi; also Mr Henderson’s interest in the Railway Hotel, Otane, Hawke’s Bay, to Mr V. A. Jorgenson, lately of Bunnythorp e.