QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 7 June 1870, Page 2

QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

(Before A. C. Strode, Esq,, I«.M. ; J. Fulton, Esq., K.M.; and Messrs (100. Lloyd, J. Fraser, H. Driver, C. E. Haughton, and JR. Stewart, J. P.’s.) REMOVAL Or LICENSE. Thomas Collins, from White Horse Hotel to corner of the Octagon. The application was opposed by the Commissioner of Police, on the ground that the applicant had a' andoued his licensed house for more than three days. Mr Harris, for the applicant, said if there had been any contravention of the ordinance, it was owing to circumstances over which he had no control, as his lease of the White Horse expired at noon on the first of the month. At five minutes to twelve he gave up possession to the landlord, and therefore he had no further command of the house. The White Horse Hotel had been one of the best conducted in the town, and a memorial in favor of the house proposed being licensed, was signed hy many of the most respectable tradesmen in the town. Application for a now license has also been made in view of this objection, for licensing the new building, to be called the Metropolitan Hotel. The Pencil considered the application ought to be for a new license. The hearing was, therefore, postponed. Robert Banks’s bottle license to George Esther, w.v granted ; A. Davidson to Chas. Field, withdrawn. The following applications were granted :—C, Steinhoif, license of Otago Hotel, to Louis Court; Caleb Moore, Empire Hotel, to A. J. Baipford;

John Bathgate, trustee of Louis Court, to John Sibbald, of Provincial Hotel; John Langford, to D. Berry; Henry Gregg, of Kaikoura Hotel, Green Island, to Alexander Johnson ; C. Hickling, of Artillery Lionel, to John Foster ; John Ross, Robert Burns Hotel, to Alexander Miller ; Alexander Cook, Clyde Hotel, to Archibald M'Allister ; Julius Mussong, of Star and Garter, to Hyman C lien. The Commissioner of Police objected to the transfer from Robert Tiillis, of Ellis’s Family Hotel, to Annie Edwards, on the ground that sbe was a young woman, and there were obvious reasons why the license should not be granted. Air Ward supported the application, on the ground that, although formerly the applicant was years ago not of .good reputation, there was no reason why she should not be al.owcd to enter into respectable occupation. She was now a widow, had already managed the house respectably, hj r capital was invested in it, and the law-ought not to stop in and crush her in her endeavors to obtain a livelihood, in reply to a question by the Bench, the Commissioner said the house had not tor the last six months well conducted. Application refused ; the Bench expressed the opinion that no unman led woman should be licensee of a public house. NEW BOTTLE LICENSE. The following application was granted Alexander M‘Leau, North Taieri. B iTTLE LICENSE OBJECTED TO. Alexander Davidson’s, of Roslyn, application was objected to by the Commissioner of Police on the ground that although the applicant was very respectable, the neighbors objected to any increased facilities of purchasing liquors One objection was that there were two licensed houses within twenty chains of the store. Mr Catamore presented a mcmarial signed by forty-eight persons in Roslyn and neighbourhood in favour of granting the application. Application refused. NEW LICENSES, Thomas Collins, for license of the Metropolitan Hotel, Octagon Mr Ward objected to granting the license on j.behalf of several inhabitants of the neighborhood, and urged that there were already too many public houses. The Commissioner of Police had no other objection than that there were already too many public houses in the neighborhood, there being already the Criterion, Glasgow Arms, South Australian, Octagon, and Hibernian Hotels, The applicant was a very respectable man, and had conducted the White Horse very respectably. Application granted. Thomas A. Jones applied for a license for premises at the corner of Stafford street, now unoccupied, to be called the Provincial Inn. Air Harris supported the application, and Air Howorth opposed. The Commissioner objected that the accommodation consisted of four rooms and a bar. There was no kitchen and no yard, and as to the shops proposed to be added, he wou’d not take them into consideration as the proposed alterations were not made. Air Howorth opposed on the same grounds, and urged that the 31st section of the Act required tint two sitting and two bedrooms above those required for the family could not be provided, Mr Harris replied. The application was granted, on condition that the shops should be added] to the present accommodation. Francis Porter, for a new house to ha called the Caversham Hotel, Air Harris supported the application. Application granted. Annie Diamond, for a house on the Lee Stream. Air Ward supported the application. Granted. Charles Field’s application for a license for a house in Brown street. Air Ward supported it. Granted, NIGHT LICENSE. Application for a night license for the University Hotel was granted.