PATEA R.M. COURT.

Patea Mail, 7 July 1882, Page 3

PATEA R.M. COURT.

This Day, before Mr Wray, R.M. SUNDAY DRINKING. D. M. Harris, in charge of the Central Hotel as agent under the trustee in bankruptcy, was charged with permitting liquor to be sold during prohibited hours on Sunday. Defendant admitted that drink was served. P, M’Loughlin said: On Sunday last I was in the Central Hotel, and had some brandy before 12 o’clock. Mr Harris was in the bar at the time. As I went in I saw some tipsy persons coming out. Defendant stated that he was absent about an hour, and on returning to the hotel he was in the bar writing at the desk while the witness was served with one drink. He did not observe what the barman was doing at the but would take care this should not happen again. Sergeant Donovan said Sunday drinking on the sly does go on in Palea, he had no doubt. When drunken men came rolling out of a hotel about churchtime on Sunday, it was tpo serious a thing to overlook, and he had told the publicans he would do all he could to bring any such case before the Court. Magistrate said the penalty in this case was £lO for a first offence. In this case, and as a caution to others, he would inflict a fine of 10s and costs 265. The conviction to be endorsed on the license. NO MORE i)RINK. Cornelius Houlihan bad been roaming about the town in a state of delirium tremens, and found his way to the lockup on Tuesday night. Being well known as an inebriate, Sergeant Donovan applied to-day for an order prohibiting him from being supplied with drink in the district, under the 167 th section of the new Act, Order made that he shall not be supplied with intoxicating liquors within the licensing districts of Oloia, Waverley,' and Patea, for a period of twelve months. The man was then discharged, and publicans will be warned.