ACCIDENT TO MICHAEL Auckland, Jan. 20.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 January 1884, Page 6

ACCIDENT TO MICHAEL Auckland, Jan. 20.

Ax accident occmred yesterday morning to Mr Michael Lynch at the King's Arms Hotel under the following circumstances : At 10. HU a.m. John Lynch, licensee of the said hotel, called upon Constable Henry Clarke and informed him that a man named Beamish was ( reating a disturbance in the hotel because he had refused to supply him with beer. Constable Clarke accompanied Mr Lynch as desired, and found that in the interval Beamish had left the hotel in a quarrelsome mood, and that Michael Lynch, brother of the licensee, had received a compound fracture of the arm by falling in a shuttle w ith a man named Wm, Farrell. Alexander Walker was presentand witnessed the occurrence. He htated that he and W. Farrell and Joel Saxon entered the hotel and were served w ith three long glasses of beer by Mrs Lynch, and that while they were di inking the beer, Beamish came and requested to be served as well as they, but as he appealed to have had enough, lie was refused. Michael Lynch came in at the time, and seeing the state Beamish was in, ordered him out of the house or he would put him out. Beamish pulled off his coat, and squai ed up, using foul language. A struggle onsued, when Farrell interfered and knocked Lynch down, which resulted in the fracture of the arm. \)r. Stock well was *.ent for, and ordered his removal to the Hospital, whole his injury was attended to. Lynch infoimed the const uble that he (Lynch) was as much in fault as Fan-all. The case, in another form, will come before the Court, when " mine host " will be charged with a breach of the Licensing Act for supplying beer on a Sunday to other-: than buna jide travellers