ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 85, 30 September 1870, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

| Besidext Magistkatk's Coi-Kr.—3xpt. 271 ; (Before H. W. Robii»son,'Esq., E..SI-.) Police v, G. 11. Smith—-Breach of Licensing Ordinance. .The defendant had been ordered to close las house at the proper time on .Saturday night, but the constable returning twice afterwarda—the second time at twenty minutes to two—found several, people in the house apparently drinking: The {lei fendaut adiuitied that lie? 'had allowed one neighbor to come in after hours, i but alleged that the other persons wer«* lodgers. The Magistrate* remarked, that the admission of one person wa& a breach of the Ordinance. It uaovveA that the house was not "closed." Tilled' 20s. and costs. Police v. (i. U. Smith.—Allowing i disorderly conduct in his licensed house, I J Complaint dismissed, i Temporary transfer of general and j night license lor Montezuma Hotel, I from Alfred 'Hill to Patrick Mellon, i Granted. i . ,

! AVAIIDJCif's Coi iiT. (Before M, W. Kobinson, .Esq., Warden.) G\ Prescott v. Patrick Mellon.— Complaint that the defendant was occupying illegally a portion of the business siteheld by the .plaintiff..under business license:. .From the- evidence it appeared that the plaintiff had about ten months ago acquired from a previI ous occupant a business site at St. Bathans, having a depth of about fifty feet, when it abutted on the fence of a field of three acres, occupied by Mr. M. GrafFney, under an , arrangement with the runholder. Gaffney had uiade -over his interest to the defendant who, •had been accepted iu his .stead by the [ manager of the station, Mr. M'Pbaii.; ;]'Plaintiff considered that,, as his business ! entitled him to occupy a frontage. -of 1 one chain by a depth of two* chains, he j. was entitled to demand: that the de- ' fendant should give up to him suilicient land to makc up his lull quantity. * It * was admitted that the defendant, or | rather Gaffney, had been in occupation, of this ground before plaintiff. The Court held that this appeared to be one of the cases contemplated by the 9th' . section of the Gold fields Act; of . bona fide used as a cultivated field, which was exempted lEom occupation under miners' right orbissiness license, . except ot course on payment of compensation. Complaint dismissed. | The application of the Mountain AVufcer liace Company for renewal of protection was granted. . —"' r \ ■■ ■ " " , i ■ > /

A Female Broker.—Among fcho passengers who sailed for the iijis bv .the Alhambra, writes the ' .Geelong Advertiser,' was Mrs. Fitzgihbon, tho well-known " lady speculator " of the- " \ erandah," in Melbourne, and the " Corner" at Ballarat/. Mrs. lutzgibbon holds an extensive property in the and is also a large shareholder in the Pplynesia. Company, at a late meeting of which she critirised verv severely the conduct of some of thedirectors, and it-is understood that one. of her special objects now in returning to Fiji is to keep a watchful eye upon, the proceedings of Mr. Butters and the other representatives of the directors tlure. As a proof of the spirit and liberality of the lady, it may be mentioned that she has taken down with her an iron church (in pieces); to be erected there; a clergyman io officiate in it j and a dwelling-house (in frame), with all household requisites, for herself. She entertains, from experience, a high idea of the future of Fiji. A lady at Preempton, Illinois, lately; presented her lord with, six children at a birth. They are all living and doing: weli. What seems to throw a of romance over the whole, is the further statement that her husband' was " perfectly delighted."