WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 932, 3 July 1903, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. H Wellington, la'|6 night. Three hotelkeepers, whose applications for licenses were ’ „ n .v, B bv the City Licensing Committee, on the ground that the'y have on their premises, are applying for a mandamus to compel the Committeo to ,?sue the licenses without delay. a.he houses are the Cecil, Empire, and the 0r Tbe twenty first show of the Welling. . p n „itrv Pigeon, and Canary Society e/ed Say, and is a successful exhibi , ?- P Tbero are 869 entrios from all parts t ‘ on : he i Island. Three North Island championships wero dociaed ’ J -. Curr } e securing the championship - (W M norcas W. B. McKenzie (Wellingpigeons (judged by Mr W. H. Smith, of P Sydney), with a black hen Turand J M. Thompson in canaries, with bl dfttk crested Norwich. a The full Bench of the Supreme Court morning heard the case of Hamond thl TTnbson, an appeal by the Licensee of Tic Heatheote Arms Hotel, Heathcote a conviction for having sold rmior on Sunday to a person not a bona traveller. Two questions were in6de »d in the appeal; first whether the V ° «nn served was a bona fide traveller &.■ S r the circumstances, and whether, as"f “line it not to have been lawful to Bam 'i v S him, the fact that appellant bona . ! p uLieved that he lawfully could supply amounted to a defence under the Aot. was reserved.