LICENSING COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2335, 27 September 1881, Page 3

LICENSING COURT.

OHBISTOHUBCH. Tuesday, Sbptbmbbb 27. [Before J. Nugent Wood (ohairman), Or. L. Lee, and H. J. Tanored, commissioners.] Hotels at Sumhbb.—Mr Stringer, for Frederick Day, stated that the house, whieh for some time the applicant had been building, was now complete, and asked for a hotel license to be granted for it. Mr Thomas, on the part of Mrs Bule, opposed. He said that the house had been built as a mere speculation, and the applicant did not intend to occupy it. His client, Mrs Bule, was building a house which would give far better accommodation than Day's. The application was granted. Endobsbd License.—Thomas Mullins cited on account of an endorsement by a B.M. on his license, that gambling had been allowed in his house, the Junction Hotel, Lincoln road, now appeared, and was defended by Mr Stringer. The Ohairman said the endorsement referred to a very bad case ; what had Mr Stringer to say about it ? Mr Stringer briefly recapitulated the circumstances. He said that some time ago a party of men were playing "euchre" for threepenny points, when a row ensued, and in it one of the party was so seriously injured as to have to be conveyed to the Hospital, where he remained sometime. Mr Mullins, senior, the former licensee of the house, who had, in fact, to leave the house on account of his bad conduct, happened to be present at the time, and Mr Mellish seemed to think he was still living there, contrary to an express stipulation of the Benoh, when the license was transferred to his son. Mr Thomas, who watohed the case for Mr Mullins, senior, stated that he was prepared to prove that that person had never lived in the house since the transfer of the license, and had nothing whatever to do with it beyond receiving his rent. Mr Stringer went on to say that the offence itself was a very trivial one, and had been committed in the absence of the licensee. There had been no other complaints against the house, which he would show, if the Benoh wished, had otherwise been well and orderly conducted. Superintendent Broham, on being appealed to, said with this one exception he had heard nothing against the house whilst it had been in the present licensee's hands. The Ohairman said the case which caused the endorsement seemed to b» anything but a trivial one, seeing that a man had been half killed in the house after gambling had been going on. However, perhaps there were some extenuating circumstances, and Mr Mullins had been punished already, and no further steps would be taken. The Bench hoped this would bo a warning to him iu .future. The inquiry then terminated.