AMENDMENT OF THE LICENSING ACT, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1100, 15 June 1882, Page 2

AMENDMENT OF THE LICENSING ACT, 1881.

(From the N.Z. Times.)

A deputation of licemed victuallers met a number of merabera of the House of Representatives, at;the ..Parliamentary buildings yejforiday,' morning? to bring under notice several amendments of the Licensing Act suggested at- a special meeting of the Licensed' Viotualleri Association recently held in Wellington. The memben present were Messrs G. J. Johnston, Weston, Daniel, Hutchison, Sutter, Fitzgerald, and' Munro, Mr B. Walker aoted as spokesman for the deputation, and read the following list of proposed amendments i

1. Licensing districts too small, should be borough, county, or road board districts.—2. Licensing ..Benches should be nominated 'by ' Government, not elective} ,aa .sp...few.' i taJceTiinterest in "J eleoki6ni,-3.' BYl.tle };V]icense-~ one'law .forrrwhole ool'ony.— A. Winelicenses-none-ai there'is little m. no ; wine-, made m 'New : Zealand.— 5. Get Sundays from 1 to 3 (afternoon) and from %to 10.80. (evening)—same as Old Country.—6. If bottle licenses be continued, as'at. preient in 'Otago and Nelson, proportionate reduction in pub-' liearj'B license fee.—7, Froednm of con-

tract between employer's and barmaids, but not for longer ithan ten hours.— 8, Glauses providing indorsement on license! should be expunged, as fine is sufficient. Licensing Benches always have power to refuse licenses to badly conducted housoi. Effect of indorsement out of all proportion- to offence, and could bo made, the means of dete-

rioration, and almost confiscation of property.—9. .Section 170 should be struck out,' Shoiild'not convict oiuuipicion, or on presumptive evidence.—lo7| Section 199 should be straok out, and jpyjiioni made to allow of appeal to tho Court, asatlpreient ,it is unfai^Br'Jx. coptional legislation for atrftdeTiiich hit a larger amount.of.money' invested in it than any other buainesa in the country, -11, Sections 201io 211, both inolusivt should, be struck out, bb the clanies are legislation for criminals, the pnnisbmont being out of all proportion to the offence, and does not; respect the-..rights of owners of property. The Licensing Benobeaalffayahadpowerfcorefuieliceniea on proof of mii.oondnot.~l2, Section 87 $), embodying'extra/fee for additional ban, should be amended to allow the holder of a publican's license to tell upon any part,of injhj case of i billiard'roomi without extrajW —Sectioc 56; [A return should be mi* to the old law in the mode ot applying for-license, especially in the case of re. newftle, and the fee of £4o.sufficient to cover all •eypenw'.-H, Seotion 124 ex. punged, and the publc'ans to keep theirlarapslit;fromsunseV, until the hour of faverable to;the atoendmeßtg'.prbposod, it being;the, ever,-!ihatJ"|omr*fcthem required,' the... the oiteful consideration. JThey alt' - promised toisiist tKe licensed vpialert.i: in bringing,frei,r,fftrjevanc»i undir th©: notice efi^HonH.f !

'Migtay said the butoher, ' thai •dog o'iniOß was the most intelligent wit- . "Jar that ever travelled on four feet. Why ,snen he,,comm.itted > suicide he did it by jumping into the sausago machine, so as tofawrrirti 211 the work ho could.' ■ • A New-York woman has made her will on silver caids, taking out a piece of each ' ; .<Md : iri the'ahape. of a crescent—no - rtjJW&We alike-and giving this, pieoe' to heirs.-, They are to receive what ~' ihoh&s boqueatlied.tlioQi on the cprd6 in ; .; to whioh their crescent pieces fit. *;'• -A Montana' mule -Btanding near a ']■ of'giant powder when it ex- ■'•■' 'toloded was hurled end over end seventyto the bottom of the dump pile an •^^Hbheßtood v When the Bmokeoleared * ,; picking the bunch ', grasa.'not in ibe leaßt disturbod.. Ho had ~; 'lifted people like that himself'and knew :'-., how it was done,. ■ i' A private, in a Cameronian Regiment, v . 6f iKe Britisli army, was recently convicted on six specific charges of desertion from • as many different regiments within a ':'/ a few months, and was sentenced to five '■'■ yiara'penal servitude. ' [''■■*■' At a meeting of teachors,'held from ; •' April 11 to April 16, at the Sorbonne, ; iiiider the • presidency, ".of the' French l ; p '' Minister of Public Instrucsipn, female '"'" teachers, for the first time, sent delegates just the same as the male te'aoheti. . , A new torpedo boat has been launched atPola, It is provided with all the most v approved apparatus both for discharging .' the torpedoes aod tlio managements of .'other, offensive weapons. The boat is •v\; 187 ft long, 27ft beam, and draws 12ft. of ';.."', water, i# .' . . •Two bicyclists from Frankfort-on-the- - Main arrived in Paris on March 18, havingaccomplished.the journey of 370 miles '.", . fa seven days, including a rest of twenty- /,■. fopr rionrp. Iheycame through Mayence, "■-,■ Kreuznaoh and Metz, and proposed to ;'■ return to Frankfort-on-the-Main via Stmsburg, ", ..Barun Meyer, a Jewish gentleman, who was formerly Au6tro-Hungarian .' Minister at .Washington, has been appointed as diplomatic representative of Austria at Bucharest, In Hungary this arrangement is unpopular, as it was hoped that a Hungarian magnate would have been selected for the post. '■ /•'■' The rats and mice are a source of great '"trouble to the butchers in the Paris ; - abatoirs, and to such an extent that the '• municipal authorities are obliged every year to make a contract with Borne enterprising individual for the wholesale de- '"' striiction of the rodents. In March the usual slaughter took place, at the contract price of one oent per head for defunct ~ rats, . .. The undertakers in Europe do not ex- •■ htbit their wares, as is the custom in the United States. Coffins are made by them to order when wanted. It is only in large cities that any stock is kept, and is kept out of sight. A few years ago an enterprising undertaker in Basle, Switzer. land, started business and put a couple of coffinsi in hh window. Crowds •' ■ gathered to stare at the unwonted sight, •'•'•' and before the end of the weok'the police told the owner of the establishment that v'!'the. unseemly exhibition" mußt ceaße. The' Queen'ssausage-maker in London '■' recently testified as an expert in a sausage f !: -iase .that this article of food could not he '"'properly made withouta large'proportion ' of its component'parts were broad. The [ r sanitary officer of Bermondsey Vestry had : '2~ htfd.a'saUßage-niaker arrested for selling, ,■ sausages 82 per cent, of meat and fat and -U$ 18 per cent, of bread. The evidence of *'< the .Queen's sausage-maker was the means of getting his fellow-worker out of a •>.- serious'difficulty, and the sanitary officer , was-mulcted £2 in costs. NwJ Camels' are gradually ' disappearing ''''from Russia add Siberia. Some thirty :; years ago there were ouormous herds of '.' these animals on the. steppes in the government of Ufa, and especially in the valley of the Dema. This valley was formerly almost covered by herds iof : - camels- left : completely free during the .. ■ summer by their masters. Now, how.V- ever, their number has so dwindled down .'■■ that in some parts of' the province they Ji. are, extremely raro. In the valley of the .> Dema, instead of the 500 or more there '. Wen five ar six years ago barely 220 are < ;lift.