QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2668, 5 September 1871, Page 2

QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

(Before A. C, Strode, iEsq., E.M., George Lloyd, Esq, J.P,, H. S. Fish, jun., Esq, J.P., aud James, Esq, J.P.) TRANSfKRS GRANTED. John Pope to Thomas White; Brown to Hyndman (Newmarket Hotel) ; Hindi cliff to W, Wood (Ellis’s Hotel); Collins to Bennett (Metropolitan Hotel, permission given to alter name to Clarence Hotel); William Buddy to Ellen Potter ; Bernard McGee to James Seanhin (Crown and Thistle Hotel) ; D, O’Brierty to C. W, Prowji (Bay View Hotel) ; McVicker to Goldie. REMOVAL Of LICENSE, Samuel Bird applied through Mr Hodgkins

to transfer license to the ether side of th street. Sub-Ipepeetor Thomson objected that there was an application for a license for the old premises. Application granted. BOTTLE LICENSE GRANTED. Robert Banks. BOTTLE LICENSE REFUSED. John Bowie (supported by Mr Harris) was opposed by the police, on the ground that there were already several holders of bottle licenses in Maclaggan street ; that it would be immediately opposite to one shop holding one, and near a lic.-nscd hotel. GENERAL AND GENERAL NIGHT LICENSE. J. B. Gnlloway (Mr Stout for tlie applicant). Mr Harris, though not appearing to oppose, mentioned that there was an applicant for license for another house, which had been several times refused. The police objected, on the ground that the house was not required. Application refused. Francis M'Gratb, for premises at the comer of St. Andrew and Groat King streets (Mr Harris, for the applicant, presented a memorial signed by nearly 100 inhabitants in the neighborhood). Tho po’ice objected that there were two houses within 150 yards. Application declined. John Wright’s application for a general licence at Morning ton, was supported by Mr Stout, and opposed by Mr Stewart for tho police. Mr Stewart said, not only was the Commissioner of Police opposed to to the granting of the license, but the greater portion of the respectable residents there objected. Ho further objected that the applicant was already holder of a bottle license and ought not to hold two licenses. There were 92 householders, 89 being married, and out of a population of 341,150 were children. Not being a thoroughfare, a public house wou’d be very objectionable, as it must, if successful, be supported by the population, and consequently it would conduce to irregularity and disorder. The petition against the license was signed by a number of women. The application was refused, Matthew Fflgerty applied for a general license at Mornington. Mr Harris supported and Mr Stewart (for the police) opposed it. The application was sign oil by a number of tho most respectable inhabitants. A similar petition against it was presented as in tho last case. Tho application was grafted, as being tho preferable of tho two. Frank P. Mansfield applied for a general license for a house at tho corner of Stafford and Mause streets. Mr Harris for tho appplicapt. Mr Haggitt opposed it on behalf of Mr Sibbald; and the police opposed it on the ground that {another licensed house was not required in the neighbourhood. Mr Harris gave a sketch of the history of the premises, and showed that it was built by Mr Hepburn for an hotel, and formed part of" the Provincial Hotel, under the tenancy of Mr S. Jones and L, Court, but bad been closed for some years. The consequence was a serious loss to Mr Hepburn, especially as about twelve mouths ago a license had been granted, but through informality in the formation of the Bench it Jwas cancelled. It was opposed by Mr Haggitt oo the ground that within a radius of 150 yards there were already fifteen licensed houses, that the accommodation was not such as required by the Ordinance, inasmuch as there wore neither tho required number of rooms nor good accommodation. The application was refused. Joseph Davis applied for a night license. It was opposed by the police on the ground of no occasion for. Granted. Edward Brown, for the York Hotel, application granted. BOTTLE LICENSE. Samuel Webb's application was opposed by the police on the ground that there were too many in Walker street already. Application refused.