MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3003, 3 October 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tina Day, (Before His Worship the Mayor and A. J. Burnej, Esq., J.P.)

ALLOWING GAMBLING IN A LICENSED HOUSB. Thomas Hudson, landlord of the Rainbow Hotel, for whom appeared Mr Mouatt, was fined 40s and costs, for allowing dice to be thrown for drinks in his house in George SUNDAY TRADING, The same defendant was cautioned for supplying a glass of ale to a party not a lodger on Sunday last. The Bench considered that it would bo unjust to single out defendant and punish him, when almost every hotelkeeper in town did the same. The police, in bringing the case, had acted quite right, as it had arisen out of one which had recently been heard in that Court. If it was intended by the authorities to enforce the provisions of the Licensing Ordinance as it oxistfcd, it would be well for the police to warn all hotelkeepers first, and if after that some should persist in offending, heavy flues would be fnflfcted.

BYE-LAW CASE, Hugh Reid, for allowing cattle to stray, Was fined ss. ASSAULT. Nicholas Patterson, for assaulting Mrs Sutherland, was fined 10a and costs j in default, hours’ hard laboi.