BLENHEIM.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5081, 30 April 1885, Page 2

BLENHEIM.

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The Defence. Minister has declined to accepted the services of the proposed Wairau Cavalry, on the grounds that the stock of arms in store is limited, and not equal to arming those corps which urgently require them. ..>...•' At the Supreme Court, the Salvation Army procession case, Tildes v. Teasdale, came before thr Court, on, appeal from the decision of the E.M. in dismissing the information on the grounds that there was no evidence of obstruction. Justice Richmond , held there was no question of law involved, and that the obstruction was purely a matter of degree; it did not appear from the evidence that the traffic in Market Place had been obstructed, and the Court could not strike a, B line from one place to another. His Honor admitted that these meetings ,in a public place on Sunday afternoons might be annoy* ing and injurious to the appellant, vwhose remedy might be by indictment f for nuisance. The Army must .recollect that the massing of people together in ! that way, although by professing Christians for religious purposes, might be a serious annoyance to individuals and the public, but in the present case the Resident Magistrate had found there was no evidentae of obstruction, and as no point of law was involved, the appeal, was dismissed.-—Hi3 Honor also dismissed an appeal from the decision of the R.M. who convicted the ex-licensee of the Grove* town hotel, for selling liquor after hours, and cancelled the license. His Honor held that the Magistrate was jnstified in assuming cancellation of the license; the R, M. Court was not a court of appeal from Licensing Committees. If the committee had informally cancelled the license without taking evidence on oath, or without properly heariug and determining thematter of dispute, appellant's remedy was by application to the Supreme Court for protection.