DOCTORS DIFFER.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 68, 19 August 1874, Page 3

DOCTORS DIFFER.

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sir, —Will you allow me to draw the attention of the public to the following extraordinary anomaly in relation to our Public House Ordinance. On the 6th of August last a case against E. V. Hiorns, of the Central Hotel, for a breach of the Public House Ordinance, came on for hearing before the Resident Magistrate at Christchurch, in which it appeared that there were lodgers in the house, and that the bar was closed, but that the house was open as there were others there than the lodgers. On the 18th of August, John Savage was charged before the Resident Magistrate at Lyttelton with a similar offence. The result, however, seems to have been very different if I may judge from the reports in the newspapers. Look on this picture, And on this. THE CASE OF B. V. THE CASE OF JOHN HIORNS. SAVAGE. His Worship said it breach op public all depended upon the house ordinance. Ordinances, which John Savage, licendiffered here and in see of the Mitre Dunedin. He then Hotel, was charged said, after some con- with keeping his sideration,thathewas house open after 11 satisfied on the evi- o’clock for the sale of dence there had been liquors on the sth of a breach of the law— this month, that the hotel had Constable M’Gorbeen illegally kept man stated that he open. He was also went into the defensatisfied that accused daut’s hotel through had slammed the the front door, which door in the face of was open, at 18 minuthe police, and a fine tes past 11 o’clock, of £5 would be im- and found several posed for each of- persons, not boarders, fence. in the house. He also stated that there was drink on the table and the bar was open and lit up. The Bench said there was little doubt a breach of the Act had been committed. The defendant would be ordered to pay costs. Trusting that you will insert this letter for the benefit of our lawgivers, the publicans, the public, and your humble servant. I am, Your obedient servant Query. Christchurch, August 18th, t 874.