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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 596, 19 April 1851, Page 3

■he general annual licensing meeting of the Magistrates for the district of Port Nicholpn was held at the Resident Magistrate’s zourt on Tuesday last, when all the original censes were renewed with the exception of ae “ Rising Sun,” on Thorndon Flat, kept y Thomas Cooper; the Bench having somtented on the fact of a person who was anstantly in a state of drunkenness in that ouse, having deserted his five children and ift them in a state of. entire destitution ; nd also on the fact of another person who ad been robbed in that house some time ince while in a state of intoxication. s' The only new license granted, out of elefren applications, was that of William Cattell, in Cuba-street, the Bench having remarked that, as the accommodations in his house were of a superior kind, it was hoped it would be made a respectable hotel for visiBrs, which was required in the town. We ire glad to find that the Bench have, on the present occasion, adopted a different course po that observed last year, and have steadily resisted the increase of public houses in Wellington, the present number being more plan adequate to the requirements of the fommunitv.