WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 450, 21 June 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

REMARKABLE LICENSING CASE.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A meeting of delegates representative of labor to-night discussed the appointment of Government inspectors to see that the awards of the Arbitration Court are enforced. A deputation was appointed to wait on the Government and ask that legislation be passed in the coming session to give effect to the desire.

Mr Atkinson, one of the City members, addressed his constituents tonight. A vote of confidence in the speaker was passed.

An impression appears to prevail that the telegraph offices will he shut oil Coronation night. This is not correct. All the princ pal offices will be open to tire public between 7 and n, and press messages will be received till midnight, as usual. Gordon Soutts, artist, of Melbourne, was to-day remanded to Melbourne on an extradition warrant on a charge of failing to provide for his wife, as ordered by the Bench at Fitzroy. The case of James Penney v. the Wairua Licensing Committee came before the Chief Justice this morning. The action itself took the form of a motion for a writ of certiorari to quash the decision of the Wairua Licensing Committee in granting a license to the Central Hotel at Blenheim, hut the first matter • before the Court was the hearing of the evidence of three tesidenls of Blenheim, who objected to depose on affidavit, and were summoned to give evidence by order of the Chief Justice on an application made to him. This evidence was in the direction of showing that a member of the Committee had stated publicly that he would support a new license, as he owed publicans in the town a grudge. Legal argument on the motion will be taken on Friday next.