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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 138, 10 June 1880, Page 2

A meeting of the Licensed Victuallers was held at the Commercial Hotel yesterday afternoon to decide what steps were to be taken in consequence of the new beer tax. The brewers having been consulted and declined to share the burden of the tax with the publicans, it was decided to raise the price of colonial beer to fourpence per glass, or eightpence per pint when consumed in the house, the old rates being retained when taken off the premises. Mr John It. Mabin reports that at his stock sale yesterday at Richmond,] there was not the quantity yarded that was expected, but there was a good attendance, principally buyers. Cows, heavy in calf, fetched £5 6s; draught gelding, unbroken, out of a Clydesdale mare, £13 193; barrow pigs, 19s each; a litter of small pigs, over 6s each. There were several other lots, principally horses, offered, but most of them were bought in. The weather prospects for to morrow are anything but bright, and at present there seems every probability of a wet day for the holiday. However, we can but hope that a change may take place during the night, and thai the Volunteers may be afforded the opportunity of competing for the numerous prizes which the liberality of the public has provided for them. As to the ball in the evening, under the auspices of the Tradesmen's Athletic Club, there is not much likelihood of that being affected by the weather, as, rain or no rain, the attendance is sure to be large at so popular an affair ad this dance promises to be. Licenses were granted at the Brightwater Court yesterday to George Thompson (late of the Wakatu) for the Star and Garter at Richmond ; to John Gaukrogrer for the Foxhill Inn ; and to S. Morrison for the Bell Grove Inn. W. Sigglekow's applicaj tion for a license for the Golden Lion, Waimea West, was refused on the ground that a public house was not required there. A Timaru telegram of Thursday last says : — R. Mclvor was very seriously injured in the Maiden Race, having his collar-bone, arm, and several ribs broken, and his back fractured.