November 17, 1900.]
On Thursday afternoon, the 15th inst, the aunual session of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistracy for the pur pos3 of considering applications for publicans and adjunct licenses for the year 1900-1901.
The chair was occupied by Mr. F. A. Haze. land, and there were also present the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Messrs. D. R. Crawford, R. Cooke, (Dr.) F. Clarke, H. P. Tooker, Hallifax, H. P. Nicolle, E. W. Mitchell, and C. A. D. Melbourne (Clerk to the Justices).
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS.|194. Those premises did not belong to him but were the property of a Chinaman. With this Chinaman his client had lately been on somewhat bad terms. Whether that was on possession of the license granted to his account of the Chinaman wishing to obtain client or not, he could not say, but he under- stood that an application had been made with respect to the premises at 192 and 194 to have the license transferred. He submitted that his client had endeavoured to conduct the place himself, and provided the justices saw no ob- properly. There was nothing against the man
license he did not see why the Justices should jection to the premises they were asked to object to the application.
The following was the list of applications: Joachim Gomes, the International Hotel, Nos. 318 and 320, Queen's Road Central; Isydor Silberman, the Globe Hotel, No. 184, Queen's Road Central; Isaac Samuel Greens-
tein, the Central Hotel, Nos. 242 and 244, Queen's Road Central; Moritz Freimann, the Land We Live In Hotel, Nos. 332 and 334, Queen's Road Central; Mrs. Annetta Papier. the Colonial Hotel, No. 1, Jubilee Street; Heinrich Varrelmann, the Western Hotel, Nos. 90 and 92, Queen's Road West; Mrs. Esther Oliver, the Travellers' Hotel, Nos. 12 and 13, Queen Victoria Street; Henry James Fannch, the Praya East Hotel, Nos. 28 and 29, Praya East; James Wm. Osborne, the Kowloon Hotel, Elgin Road, Kowloon; Hans Jertrum, the German Tavern, Nos. 266 and 268, Queen's Road Central; Rustomjee Cowasjee Bamjes, the Stag Hotel, Nos. 148 and 150, Queen's Road Central; Ismail Pillay Madar, the New Victoria Hotel, No. 9, Queen's Road Central; James Thomas Course, the Eastern Hotel Nos. 192 and 194, Queen's Road East; Cowasjee Hormajee Sanga, the Hunghom Hotel, No. 30, Bulkeley Street, Hunghom; Hamilton Ed: Hammon, the Bay View Hotel, Nos. 20 Shaukiwan Road; Bernard Joras, the Eastern Hotel, Nos. 173 and 175, Queen's Road East; Harry Haynes, the Hongkong Hotel, Nos. 21, 23, 25, and 31, Queen's Road Central, and No. 1 and 3, Pedder's Street; Alexander Moir, the Peak Hotel, Rural Building Lot No.
77, the Peak; Frederick Melhusish, the
Criterion Hotel, Nos. 21 and 23, Pottinger Street; Richard J. Young, the Metropole Hotel, No. 2, Shankiwan Road; William Krater, the Rose, Shamrock & Thistle Hotel, Nos. 304 and 306, Queen's Road Central ; Antonio Fonseca (Adjunct License), the Con- naught House, No. 23, Queen's Road Central; Anthony Milroy, the Sailors' Home, No. 187A, Praya West; Mrs. Matilda Moore, (Adjunct license) Pelham House, No. 29. Wyndham Street; Mrs. Elizabeth F. Stainton (Adjunct license), the Waverley Hotel, No. 8, Ice House Street; Victor J. Avilis, Thomas' Grill Room, No. 2, Queen's Road Central.
THE EASTERN HOTEL.
With regard to the application_of_J. T. Course for the premises known as the Eastern Hotel at Nos. 192 and 194, Queen's Road East, Mr. O. D. Thomson (Messrs Deacon and Hast- ings) said that the licensee of this hotel was formerly Mr. Jorus. The latter obtained a license last year, but his conduct was unsatisfac- tory, and it was decided that a new man should apply. Mr. Course was formerly on the Army medical staff. He was discharged with a good character, and had been employed at the Government Civil Hospital, and obtained a good testimonial from Dr. Atkinson. He was afterwards employed a short time by Watkins,
chemists.
Mr. May-I should be glad to see Dr. Atkin- son's testimonial.
The application was refused.
THE HUNGĦOM HOTEL.
Hunghom Hotel. He said his client had held Mr. Reece appeared for the licensee of the the license for five months. He believed it was proposed that this hotel should be removed in about two months to the American Match Factory. He did not know whether there was understood that Mr. Cooke of the Dock Com- any objection to granting the license, but he pany had something to say with regard to it. grocer's license next door to the hotel, and his There happened to be a Chinese shop with a instructions were that sailors got drink there and took it away.
The Chairman said that this house had given rise to a lot of drunkenness, and the occupier was in April last convicted of supplying a drunken
man with liquor.
indeed if this house could be shut up, as Mr. Cooke said he should he very pleased it caused a great deal of trouble at the Dock. In many cases the Europeans belonging to the different war-ships had been severely punished as the result of their getting drink there. In one case a man lost his life through falling into the dock when drunk. He could not say whether the man got his drink at the Hunghom Hotel, but it was the general opinion that he did. The scenes outside the hotel were really disgraceful. Of course the police could not watch it always. The Euro- pean foremen at the Dock said it was sometimes impossible for their wives to pass the house.
The Chairman spoke strongly against the house, and the application was refused.
THOMAS'S GRILL ROOMS,
As to the application of Victor J. Avilis for the license of Thomas's Grill Rooms, Mr. Melbourne said he had been given to understand that the application would be withdrawn on the ground that Mr. Avilis had no authority to
make the application.
The application was adjourned to the 22nd inst., to see whether Mr. Avilis purposed with drawing his application or not.
All the other licenses were renewed.
ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS.
At the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning Mr. John Scott Harston, brother of Dr. Harston, of this Colony, and Mr. F. C. Barlow were approved, admitted, and enrolled as attorneys and proctors of the Court.
The Attorney-General (the Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, Q. Č.) said he had to move under Section 5 of Ordinance 3 of 1871 that Mr. John Scott Harston be approved, admitted and enrolled as a proctor of that honourable Court. The requirements of Section 10 of the Or dinance had, he understood, been complied with. The certificate of admission had been de
The testimonial was produced and the Chair-posited with the Registrar and the usual affidavits man observed that it stated that the applicant was an excellent man for putting down an epidemic. The Chairman added that a man might be a good man for putting down an epi- demic and yet not be a good man to conduct a -public house.
The Justices considered the application in private, and decided that it was not advisable that the place should be kept open. They, therefore, refused the application.
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during that period he unhesitatingly said that he was in every respect a fit and proper person to be admitted to practise as a solicitor in Hong- kong or elsewhere.
General, let Mr. John Scott Harston be ap
The Chief Justice-Very well, Mr. Attorney- proved, admitted, and enrolled as an attorney and proctor of this honourable Court.
The Attorney-General made a similar applios- tion on behalf of Mr. Francis Collins Barlow. In an affidavit filed by him Mr. Barlow said he Hume Chancellor Pinsent, s member of the was articled on the 26th day of July, 1894, with
remained with that firm until the year 1898, firm of Pinsent and Co., of Birmingham, and
when he went to Messrs. Field, Roscoe, & Co. of London, agents for the firm of Pinsent and Co., and remained with theni till the end of the year office of the Incorporated Law Society, in 1899. He passed the final examination at the Chancery Lane, London, in January, 1900, and of Judicature in England in the month, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court
of October, 1900. In July, 1900, he in- Ullthorne, Carrey, and Gennings, of No, terviewed Walter Currey, of the firm of 3, Grays Inn Place, London, with a view solicitor to Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, of to obtaining an appoinment as Hongkong, which he understood to be open, and he was subsequently appointed. On the 5th October he sailed from London for Hong- kong, and arrived here on the 10th November. An affidavit by Mr. Deacon was also submitted.
had been filed. In the affidavit filed by him, Mr. Harston said he was formerly of Leeds. He was admitted to be a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England on the 19th of February, 1900. He arrived in this Colony on the 7th day of November. There was an afida vit by Dr. Harston, who said that the applicant was his brother, that he was a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicaturs in England, and was a fit and proper person to be admitted as With regard to the application by Bernard an Attorney and Proctor of that Court. There Joras for premises at Nos. 173 and 175, Queen's was also a letter from a partner in the firm of Road East, to be called the Eastern Hotel, Mr. Messra. Ford and Warren, of Leeds, solicitors, Wilkinson (Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist), who said that Mr. Harston had been for the appeared. He said Mr. Jerns obtained a license past five years, and was at that time (September, last year to carry on business at certain pre-1900) managing olerk in their firm. From his mises in Queen's road East-Nos. 192 and personal experience and knowledge of him
assistant
The Chief Justice-Very well, Mr. Francis enrolled as an attorney and prostor of this Collins Barlow is to be approved. admitted, and honourable Court.
said-Mr. Harston and Mr. Barlow, I have Addressing the applicants, the Chief Justice pleasure in admitting you both as solicitors of this Court, and I wish you an honourable and
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SERIOUS OUTBREAK OF FIRE.
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Between three and four o'clock on Tuesday morning smoke was seen issuing from the ground floor of premises situated at 122, Jervois Street. An alarm was raised, and on an entry being effected it was discovered that a silk piece goods shop situated there was in flames. The fire brigade, which meantime had been summoned, speedily arrived on the scene, and exerted them. selves to subdue the conflagration, now assuming serious proportions. Their labour, however, was in vain, and the first, second and third floors were soon involved. The only course that now remained was to prevent the outbreak from spreading, and in this the brigade happily was successful. The premises in which the fire originated were completely gutted, the damage, which is fully covered by insurance, being esti- mated at $19,000. One of the insurance com. panies concerned is the Man On, on which policies to the amount of $14,000 are held. The origin of the fire is unknown. No one was in- jured.
The N.-C. Daily News ways of the just "The concluded race meeting at Shanghai:
bave been reinforced with old ponies cracks from Tientsin and Hongkong, among the excitements of the meeting being the contests with varying fortune between Bet from the North and Desert King from the South. The twenty-six races, as will be seen in the analysis, were divided among seventeen owners, Mr. Detring taking three firsts with Set, Mr. Duplex two with The Dealer, Mr. J. M. D. two with Shell-me-not and Touch-me-not, Mr. Henry Morriss two with Blueberry and Nutberry, Mr. Ganwal two with Referee, Mr. Toeg two with Fraser, Mr. Robson two with Loyalty and Messrs. Middy and Falk two with Igel." The other winning stables took only one race each, Mr. G. H. Potts with Desert King, Mr. Bing with Amphion, Mr, John Peel with Baluchi, Mr, Waverley with Tornado, Mr. Lewis with Bulbul, Mr. Mellaw with Balder, Mr. Maxston with The Pirate, Mr. Hart Buck with Baperance and Mr. Elphinstone with Marrylegs, Only two stables produced two winning ponies, and every other stable only one, a condition of things that was aspired to but regarded as an 'impossible dream some years ago,
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