NASEBY LICENSING COURT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 301, 4 December 1874, Page 2

NASEBY LICENSING COURT.

. D-ECfiMBEE 1. (Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., Chairman, ■A. Holland, Grrumitfc, - and. ,C. -A. de Jjautour, Commissioners.)

The December Court was opened on the Ist 'inst., at-the Court House,' Naseby, ■at iioon. This Court ibeing to a certain extent endowed ' with extra privileges, as amending errorsarising under the defective ; Act of 1873, had r a little more business than may ;be expected to occur, except atethe annual'meeting in June. •The following applications were considered • and dealt wilh:— .. . ,

Joaepn Henry Gason: Application "for-'a' -'general and: general night license.' ± The police-- -■■ report was very favorable to ihe granting <of - ■ Sub stating to ,fche Court-that it was at times, almost aneces- - sity even -for the- police -officers/ when- the Camp, was-full.. , The night - license j was ■ not •objected-to.'J Mr. W. ;L. Bailey appeared for the applicant. This application- was-re'fused at the last Court? Application granted." J. J. Smith : Application for a general and .general nighfc license, u The police objected to a ' the. gcd.nts.ori-account of the- insufficiency of ,the accommodation,:and the number of licensed houses in-the . street. Mr. Jiowlatt ap r - peared for applicant, and urged the -grant. He begged to submit, in reference"-to• several of the applications-for which he -fclMt, whether-a house was required- or not, was a-question not peculiarly within-the Province of the Bench ; that liie enquiry should' be confined to the character of- the applicant - and,the nature, of-the -house.• ■-The-policy of tfie law was a foolish• one". ; He did- 'not-see *= wily any hold should- be kept over the liquor trade than over any other; This -license had, - as the previou.- one, been refused at tile last - the >Court. -Application refused. -• Daniel Robertson • : Application for a-gene-ral license. No.appearance. "Police reported' Struck out. * John Nieper: Application for general li- , cense. Mr. JJowlatt appeared for-the applicant. Police objected -on ■ the,,ground of-rion-requirment; insufficient accommodation, ' and other employment having been entered - into ; by the applicant.- • Objections supported;' Application refused • * -

_ George Albert Chapman': - General - night license. Mr. liowlatt for the applicant;- I Ho objection. Granted;-• Applicant ■ cautioned "to'-be very careful as there'-had been a former complaint .by< the- police as ■■■ to the previous character of the bouse. -

John Bull: General night license. Police reported very favorably. Granted.- • 31 - Rachel Grace : -General-night license. ■ Mr; L. : ;W". Bailey appeared for the applicant. Kb' objections. "Granted. _ • • : Thomas. Pinder : General night • license; Mi. Rowlatt for applicant/- ■ The public hall in'connection with the Empire hotel rendered the grant of this license, it was urged,- a: necessity. A few repairs were said r.o be required, which applicant .promised to see- to. No objection. Granted • ii" :

W; Millar : General night license.' -Re-pairs-reported as necessary,-and'promised; No-objection. Granted. .>. i .;

Mrs. Edwin George, Kyeburn Diggings:" Application for a general license. Thislicense bad lapsed through infownality of- application" at tlie former'Gourt. The Sub-Inspector objected on the grounds of non-sufficiency of ; accommodation store being on the premises—the house coming before?the Court as a new house the- granfcouVd not. be made. Mr; - W. Bailey, appeared; for applicant, and urged that the apr>li(&tion wns a " new appli-' cation for an? "old~\hofise," -and-, therefore,' a • aground plan was not needed in Court. • It was advanced that the* license .was a 'liecessitv in ' tthe .d J now-'six or eight men -a-night - stop thcrj, and the number will much increasein the harvest season _ Application granted. Walter Morgaiij Kyeburn Diggings : Appli- ■ cation for_ general license. Mr, Kowlatt for applicant. - The Sub-1 nspe'etor objected on the same ground as in Mrs. George's 1 application;- ■ that the license-' being - broken- the house be- " came a new house, and that a ground- plan v - should be produced showing that the'store was disconnected -with - the building. Mr. Uowlatt urged that, agreeing with Mr. Bailey, the ap plication was - a-new- application for an old house," and exempt from refusal on rlie - ground of being a combined'Btore and hotel.It was also argued that it .was through informality that the : application., was not con- ■ sidered at the last Court—if considered it - would have" been granted. ■'Granted. - 13. Aimes : Bush license. No appearance. HIDE DISTRICT. . S_. Harman, Linburn : Bush license. Mr. Rowlatt for applicant. . The Court decided it hid no jurisdiction. should be made to'the Superintendent. Ralph Mosen, .Serpentine-: Bottle license. Granted. ' ' % " .. , The Hindon.and; Ahuriri v Licensing - Courts' ~ were declared "opene 1, aud, theret being no business, were formally declared closed.

, Rather , a . serious accident happenedlately\ to.the Rey v A _ . B. Todd.. -.He "had been jvisiting in Oamaru, and had just-.--mounted "his horse, when "* thfe -animal- " either- shied or buckedj and the' reverend 1 ' gentleman was thrown. .iMvas. found oil examination that no* bones were broken, but Mr.. Todd- suffered a good deal frominjuries sustained in his back. -■' .-*