FOXTON.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 48, 27 March 1878, Page 3

FOXTON.

Wednesday, Maboh 20, 1878. roxtow fajtikt hotel. ■ An application was made by Mr E. J. liarnett for^k temporary transfer of the' Poxton Fa^y Hotel in favor of Arthur Howe.: .^3||sDr. BuilttK appeared On behalf of Mv ■ Howe.* ; 'r '"■'■■ ': "- ; --.. ■; "' . .. ." ..■■:. ;..;vY-- ■: The District; GoopJable,' on being enlled by Ihe Mngistratev said that he had known the family of tho Howes -for many yehrs, and believed the transferee was not ft fit "-triad..proper person.to sreep a hotel. During tlie; two op three days he had already been . in occiipiition, he had heard that persons of low charaeter had ficquently got drunk in the house, but during the lime the transfci or had been keeping the house the utmost order Jind been maintoined. Dri Buller said, if the application was hot granSed, it would be very hard to imprison Mr Barnett in the house until he found a -suitable person to transfer his license "• to. Tie would eall Mr Hiawe, the would-be landlord. Mr Howe said he liad never kept a hotel before, and liis only experience was going in and out of hotels; He liad been o'nployed at Mr Seager's iron foundry for the last seven years. It wash-is i»t ention, if he got the license, to have his father and mother up at times to help him. Mj 1 John Davis, on being cslled, said iImH he was connected by lna-vifittge with- 'Ine. Howe family, and lie .qoile considered Mr, A. Howp a ilt person to conduct tho hoLel in question. -,'..' %■ ; i« i' Jiarnctt said- he had never had any ino wiedgc of h ot c'lkeeping before he got his license for the Foxton Family Hote?. Mr Overton. said .he was in the employ of Messrs Pascoe & Co., In-ewerff, Wellington, and they considered they Were- quito safe in having such a p^fsfpu as Mr Howe in any liotel of theira. The District Constable said that, with tjie permission of His Worship, he would cull MrT, IT.. Cook to support what he had alteady said. Si.v Cook said he had known (lie TTowe.' for many .years, and, as trustee of. the estate on which the hotel was situated, he con3i dered that if the transfer was now granted Mr Howe would not be able Jo hold it, an<! the property^ would consequeiitiy be -fflateri ally depreciafed. The Eesident MngisJrate said he hu( carefully listened to the statements for :in ' against the trjinsfer, and he hud coisie t the 'conclusion (hal llie temporary tren-^ftr could not be granfed, but that an applio tion hnd belter be put in at tl:e next siltiu 6f the Licensing Cctiirt, as ho would inu» >v )*nl her have fhe case hen rd before a fii'Court, it being hloirl uuillcr.