THE LICENSING ACT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4176, 27 July 1892, Page 3

THE LICENSING ACT.

A Carterton Case. Kate Carden, licensee of the Marquis of Nortnanby Hotel, Carterton, was charged before Colonel Roberts, R.M. yesterday, on the information of Constable Darby, with an infringement of the Licensing Act in having opened the bar of the hotel on a Sunday. Mr Acheson appeared for the defendant. Geo. Osborne, on oath, deposed that he remembered Sunday, L7th inst, He was at tbe Marquis of Normanby Hotel. The door leading to the bar was open and there were lights in the bar. He was in company with A, A. Mercer. The barmaid was also present behind the bar, He remembered the constable coming in and drawing hia (witness 1 ) attention to the lime. It was between twelve and one o'clook in the morning, Miss Cardea was there once during the time. To Mr Acheson: I went to the hotel at the time mentioned. The ' doors were open, I did not see any liquors served, Cross-examined by the constable: There might hare been others there, but I would not Bwoar to that. A, A. Morcergave similar evidence, To the Court: I was served with a drink in the early part of the night, it might have been a few minutes past ten o'clook. Alice Logan, barmaid, remembered seeing Constable Darby at the hotel on Sunday morning, 17th inst., between twelve and one o'clock. She <did not serve any drinks at the bar, but-served some in the rooms. She believed she was serving boarders, but being a stranger could not swear wbo they were, To Mr Acheson: I was told to leave the bar at 10 o'clock, but came back again. It was by my own free will, 1 went to the bar about twelve o'clook to ask Miss Carden it she was ready to go to bed. The outer doors were closed at ten o'clock. To Constable Darby: Miss Carden told me to leave the bar at ten o'clock, Constable R. Darby deposed that ou Sunday morning, 17th inst., he visited the hotel and found the bar open and Osborne and Mercer in the bar. Miss Garden and the barmaid were behind the bar. The bar was lit up, He drew their attention to the time. There were other persons in the bouse and they left just as he was going in the door of the hotel. They were neither travellers not boarders. The bar waß open for the sale of liquor. Although ho did not see any liquor sold he heard some ordered while he was outside. To Mr Acheson: The doors were shut and he saw some men coming out. He then went in and drew the attention of Miss Carden to the time of night, A second information was laid, but the evidence given was much the same. Tho first information was laid under Section 155 of tho Licensing Act, and the Becond under Section 126. The first case was dismissed. In the second afine of 40s, with 7s costs, was inflicted.