LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.
[Per Association Telegrams.]
LICENSED VICTUALLERS ON THE ALERT. Dunedin, March 26. At a meeting of persons interested in the liquor trade to-day it was decided to reorganise the Licensed Victuallers’ Association under new rules. About fifty persons were enrolled. It is intended to petition Parliament to do away with the present system of elective licensing benches, the endorsement of licenses for trivial offences, Ac. “LAMBING DOWN” AND PERJURY. At Palmerston South yesterday Mr. Robinson, R.M., ordered the commital for perjury of the plaintiff in the case of Thos. Flynn v. Bessie Brown, in which he sought to recover £4O, which he alleged had been taken from him by “ lambing-down” process. Christchurch, March 26. Mr. Miller, headmaster of the Boys’ High School, has been presented with a testimonial by the masters, scholars, and parents of scholars. The ffrst gave him a photographic album, second, a number of articles made out of New Zealand woods, and third a purse of sovereigns. THE LICENSING ELECTIONS. Auckland, March 26. The R.M. has reserved judgment in the matter of the petition re city licensing election. No evidence was offered by petitioners to sustain the charges of imputation of the the poll being kept open beyond the specified hours, or of voting papers being improperly disallowed. The petitioners rested solely on technical objection under the Act, such as the Returning officer appointing “Deputy” instead of substitute. ARBITRARY ACTION OF A LICENSING COMMITTEE. It has transpired that the Onehunga Licensing Committee will not grant any extension of publican’s licenses at the Onehunga races. SUPPRESSION OF SUNDAY TRADING. Mrs. Lynch, of the Clanricarde Hotel, has been fined £lO and costs for Sunday trading. MYSTERIOUS FIRE. A fire broke out in a bedroom at Lynch’s Aurora Hotel at three p.m., which gutted the top storey before it was suppressed. The damage is estimated at £2OO. The building was insured in the New Zealand office for £1,500, and the stock and furniture for £9OO, half of the risk being re-insured in the Colonial and Norwich Union offices. The bedroom was occupied by John Quinn, but he had not been in since half-past seven o’clock in the morning. The origin of the fire is unknown.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 93, 27 March 1884, Page 2
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367LAST NIGHT’S WIRES. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 93, 27 March 1884, Page 2
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