LICENSING COURT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2040, 7 September 1880, Page 2

LICENSING COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday, August 7. £Before G. L. Mellish, R. J. S. Harman, and H. J. Tancred, Esqs., Commissioners.] This Court opened half an hour after the appointed time. David Hood applied for a hotel license for a house in Colombo road, Sydenham. A license for the same house had been refused on several previous occasions. Mr Spaokman, for applicant, stated at length the various reasons for the granting of the license. The Bench did not consider the circumstances of the case had altered sufficiently to change their previous decision. Application refused.

Mr Thomas, on behalf of John McClure Smyth, applied for a hotel linoense fora house about eighteen miles from Christchurch on the West Coast road. The house had formerly borne a license, and was known as the Half-way House, but the license had lapsed. A storekeeper living in the neighborhood deposed that from applications he had received himself, he knew that an accommodation house was required. Mr Kingdon, another resident, spoke to the want of such a convenience in the neighborhood. He had daily to put up travellers, who otherwise must have camped out. On the West Coast road there is not any accommodation house between Yaldhurat and Sheffield, a distance of twenty-nine miles. Mr Thomas further said that the house had been put in thorough repair, and was in every way fitted for the business. The Bench thought that in that sparsely populated district, and with the little traffic on the road, a licensed house was not required. Application refused.

TBANSFBEB. The following were granted :—Rolleston Hotel, from Smythe to Francis; Selwyn Bridge Hotel, Selwyn, James to Hitchcock ; Feathers’ Hotel, Addington, Hansmann to Hansmann; Victoria Hotel, Colombo street, Morling to Burke; Heathcote Valley Hotel, Vaughan to Long. Mr Thomas applied for the cancellation of the license of J. Skinner, late of the Cafe de Paris restaurant, Cashel street, Christchurch, he having left the house and the district, and the issue of a new licence to Morris W. Edwards, the present tenant. The former tenant signed by mistake an application for a temporary instead of a permanent transfer, and the license would necessarily lapse, the requirements of the Act not being complied with. The application was refused, Mr Thomas undertaking to apply at next sittings as for a new house.

TEMPOEABY IBAmFBBa. Temporary transfers were granted as follows : Commercial Hotel, Christchurch, Oookson to| Dorn; Garrick Hotel, Christchurch, Hadfield to Mori mg ; City Hotel, Christchurch, Oram to Cookson. The Bench expressed their satisfaction at the readiness with which the suggestion of the police as to earth closets had been met by the keepers of licenced houses. LYTTELTON. Tuesday, Sbptbmbeb 7. [Before J. Beswick, Esq., chairman, J. D. Maopherson, and T. H. Potts, Esqs., Commissioners.] NEW LICENSE. Mr H. N. Nalder applied on behalf of Mrs P. Cain, for a wine and beer license for her boarding-house on London street. The Bench refused the application. TBANSEBB. The license of the Saxon Hotel was transferred from Mrs Beverly to George Pierce.