MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2593, 9 June 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This DatT: : 0 (Before his Worship The Mayor.) drunkenness. v ' Thos. Welhourue was lined ss. " MINOR OFFENCES. Ellen Gately, an old oTender, was fined 1.3 or a month’s imprisonment, for using obscene language ; Daniel ClafFey, for allowing a goat to wander. 7sGd; ami Annie M‘Donald, neglecting to keep premises clean, 2s Gd and costs. THE LICENSING ORDINANCE. Alexander Lawson, storekeeper, Walker street, was charged on the information of Mr Lumb, inland revenue officer, - with a breach of the 31 th section of the Licensing Ordinance of 18(i/>. The facts were admitted —that the officer went into defendant’s store yesterday, and seized a barrel of Colonial beer, which he found there on tap. He urged that the license under rhe DistilLvioo Act hold by the defendant only authorised him to sell fcrmcnted l ,,aud : .spirituous liquors noi less than two -gallons,- in quantity, but on which duty'had been'paid ; and that the' bottle license held by him under the Provincial Ordinance only entitled him to sell liquor in bottle, on shelves, properly capsuled, \c. Colonial beer in bulk, not coming under either category, was liable to seizure, in bis belief; and the exposure of it was a contravent on of the Ordinance. He submitted the intention of the Ordinance was clear—that the holder of a bottle license must keep all liquors exposed on shelves, properly capsuled, kc., in order that there might be no c.uupcring wall the contents. On the other hand, Mr Harris, who appeared for the defendant, contended that tln-re was nothin, in the Ordinance to prevent the holder of a bottle license from keeping beer in balk on his premises; and that no conviction could Ik

unless it was proved that the beer was sold in bulk. Tuo Mayor expressed a similar view, but, in order to be clear on the point, adjourned the case until to-morrow, to enable him to obtain legal opinion in reference, io it. Several other cases of a similar nature were adjourned) pending the decision in Lawson’s.