Alleged Beerhouse Offence.

John Salter, beerseller, Denaby, was summoned for selling beer on his premises.

Police-constable Wilson said that at one o’clock on Wednesday, the inst., he was on duty at Denaby, and visited the house kept by the defendant, who had license to sell beer ” off.” He found three men drinking in one of the rooms—they were sitting round a table.

He asked the landlady what the three men were drinking there for ? She said that two of them had been delivering beer for a Conisbro’ brewery and the other was soliciting orders.

Mr. Taylor appeared for the defence, and said that the men had been delivering beer at the defendant’s house. Mrs. Slater, in accordance with a usual custom, treated the men with quart of beer and they were drinking it when the police came in.

Summons dismissed.