LICENSING COURT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2118, 7 December 1880, Page 3

LICENSING COURT.

Tuesday, Dboembbb 7. [Before H. J. Tanorod (chairman), R. J. S. Harman, and G. L. Lee, Esqs., commissioners.] NEW APPLICATIONS. Mr MoOonnel applied on behalf of (George Collier for a hotel license for premises to be built at the comer of Lower High street and the East Town Belt. Plans were put in, and Counsel strongly urged the necessity for a house on the site named. Mr Thomas, for Thos. Graham, applied for a license to premises to be erected on the corner of the East Town Belt, immediately opposite the proposed building projected by Mr Collier. The Bench refused both applications. Mr Spaokman applied for a license for a hotel at the comer of Colombo road and , Middle street, Sydenham, in the name of T. ■ A. W. Parsons. Mr. G. Harper, on behalf of j residents in that neighborhood, opposed. Evidence in favor of and against it was beard. Amongst the witnesses was one who, Mr Harper said, was the representative working man of the district, named John Lee. He ' described at some length what had happened to him in thirty-five years of hard drinking. The gist of his remarks was that it ia a wrong i done to the working man that public house ( licenses were granted at all. The license was refused. , An application by J. Me O. Smyth, who was represented by Mr Thomas, for an hotel . license at Courtenay, was granted. _ H. Scrimshaw was refused an hotel license for premises to be erected on the corner of Third and Harper streets, Sydenham. - M, W. Edwards was granted a wine and beer license for the Cafe, Cashel street. , TBANBFEBS. The following were confirmed ; —Bennett to Morling, the Garrick ; Oookaon to Dorn, Commercial ; Oram to Cookson, City ; Hirst to Freeman, Caledonian, Caledonian road ;aud Long to Bashford, Valley, Heathooto Valley. THE CONSUMPTION OF "HORSE- \ FLESH. { Some very interesting statistics have been , published by the Society for promoting the j use of horseflesh and the flesh of asses and ( mules as food, showing how steadily the r consumption of these articles of diet has been j increasing in Paris and the provinces since £ the foundation of the society in 1866. The ( weight has increased from 171,3001 b. in 1866 to j 1,982,6201 b. in 1879. In the principal cities of , the provinces the consumption of horseflesh * may be considered to have fairly taken root, j At Marseilles, in 1870, there were 599 horses . eaten ; 1031 in 1875, and 1533 in 1878. At 1 Nancy, 165 in 1873, over 350 in 1876, and 705 in 1878 ; at Rheims, 291 in 1874, 423 in 1876, j and 384 in 1878 ; at Lyons, 1839 in 1873, and ( 1313 in 1875. In both the latter cases some ( difficulties had been thrown out by the town ( authorities, as was the case recently at j Chalons-snr-Marne, where the Mayor fixed ] the price of horseflesh at a higher rate than j that of beef. The average price ef horse , meat is from twenty-fire cents, to thirty cents. ( per pound. Each horse furnishes about 200 kilogrammes (4 owt.) of meat, which is j capable of being prepared in many by no ] means unappetising ways, such as pot-afeu, ( boiled, roast, hashed, haricot, jngged, fillet, | &o. .