QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1978, 7 September 1869, Page 2

QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Messrs Strode and Wall, R.M.’s, and J. D. Murison, J.P., were present. TRANSFERS OF GENERAL LICENSES. The following transfers were granted Robert Burns Hotel.—J. Morrison to W. Morrison. Golden Age Hotel.—William Graham to Thomas Jones. Otago Hotel. —Thomas Jones to J. Mee. White Hart Hotel.—The executors of Peter Hopper, deceased, to A. Collins. Albion Hotel. —Mary Clements to Joseph Davis. Oriental Hotel.—John M < Cuhbin to Alex. Findlater. Caledonian Hotel.—Johnßazeley to Samuel Hadfield. Ellis's Family Hotel. —Frederick W. Kenwood to John M'Cleggan. Coach and Horses —Mary Carter to Bernard M‘Gee. Air Harris appeared for the transferree. Foundry Hotel.—James H. Brooks to J. A. L. Richmond. The application by Patrick Wm, Bergin, to transfer the license of the Artillery Hotel to Charles Theodore Plonnigs, was postponed until Thursday next, in consequence of the absence of the transferree. Mr Ward appeared for Mr Plonnigs. TRANSFER OF BOTTLE LICENSES. The following transfers of bottle licenses were granted : William Coolahan to Alexander Holland. William Fraser to Charles Young. Thomas Easton to Anthony Thomson. NEW BOTTLE LICENSES. The following new bottle licenses were granted ;—John i'ods, George street; William O’Neill, Great King street; Michael Jennings, Brighton ; Frederick William Kenward, Maori Hill; Jacob Turnbull, Maclsggan street, for whom Mr Ward appeared. The application made by Thomas Galloway for a bottle license in Stafford street, was refused in consequence of its contiguity to various brothels, and from the number of hotels in the immediate neighborhood. Arthur Webb applied for a bottle license at Mossgiell, in the East Taieri. Mr Harris supported, Mr Wilson opposed. —Mr Harris, for the applicant stated that no other bottle license was granted in the neighborhood, that the applicant was a thoroughly respectable man, and that as he was in the habit of supplying his country customers with grog, he had at present to buy it for them at a loss. He also put in a memorial signed by seven of the inhabitants in support.—Mr Wilson opposed, on the ground that a bottle license was not required, and on account of the applicant or Jiis partner being postmaster of the district ; and put in a memorial signed by 24 of the inhabitants of the district against the application,—The Bench decided on adjourn the case for a fortnight, to enable the police to get the feeling of the neighborhood on the application. NEW GENERAL LICENSE. The following new licenses were granted Crown Hotel, Caversham, Archibald Campbell. Octagan Hotel, The Octagon, William Spragg Drummond. Liverpool Arms, Filleul street, Edmund O’Keefe. The application by John Keith for a license for a house known as the Argyle Hotel, in Albany street, was postponed for a fortnight, in consequence of the house being unfinished. Mr Ward appeared for the applicant. John Mulligan applied for a license for a house, to be called the Fountain Hotel, in Stafford street.—Mr Barton supported, and Mr Ward objected to, the application.—Mr Barton, for the applicant, put in a memorial, signed by seventy-five of the neighbors, in support, and spoke at some length as to the need in the district of a respectable publichouse. —Mr Ward put in a memorial against the application, in which the memorialists stated that “they viewed with alarm” the opening of any more houses in the neighborhood.—The Inspector stated there was no objection either against the house or the character of the applicant, but as it was next door to a noted brothel, and as it required so much supervision to keep these houses in bad neighborhoods in order, he should oppose the application.—The Magistrates therefore refused the application, remarking that, if for no other reason, the contiguity of a brothel was a fatal objection. The meeting was then adjourned until Thursday next, at noon.