LICENSING MEETING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 122, 12 March 1872, Page 6

LICENSING MEETING.

—o— ; Thursday, 7th March, The adjourned quarterly licensing meeting was held in the Court-house prior to the sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursdaylast. The Justices present were E. H. Carew, Esq., R.M., and James Taylor, Esq., J.P., Mayor of Cromwell. GENERAL LICENSES. The application of Edward M'Nulty, Roaring Meg, was granted. The application of Samuel Champion, Shepherd's Creek, was objected to by the police. Mr Wilson, who appeared for the applicant, stated that his client had not heen served with notice of objection as required by section 17 of the Licensing Act, which provided that three clear days' notice of the intention to object should be given to the applicant and to the Clerk to the Bench. Sergeant Cassels explained that he only became aware of the application at noon on the previous Tuesday. It transpired that the application had not been received fourteen days before the day of hearing, and it was thrown out for that reason. The hearing of Francis Foote's application for a license for premises at Logantown was adjourned till next Court-day,—the applicant being absent when called upon. TRANSFERS. John Jackson was granted a transfer of his general license from Logantown to the Carrick Range. Hugh M 'Pherson applied for a transfer of the license of the Wakefield Ferry Hotel to John E. [ Beattie. Granted. THE FORESTERS' BALL. John Marsh, of the Bridge Hotel, applied for ! leave to have music and dancing in his house on i date of the occasion above mentioned. Granted.