Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal, Saturday 20 September 1879.

Sittingbourne Petty Sessions.

Mr. Charles Johnson Gooding, builder, of Battersea applied, for the sixth consecutive year, for a licence for the "Ranelagh Arms," Broadway, Sheerness (a house on the United Land Company's Estate,) and was again unsuccessful; the Bench stating that the circumstances of the application were precisely the same as in 1878. Mr. Copeland, solicitor, appeared in support of the application; Mr. Douglas Kingsford, barrister (instructed by Mr. Vincent H. Stallon,) opposed, on behalf, it was stated, of the Sheerness Licensed Victuallers' Association, Sheerness. The total abstainers joined the licensed victuallers in the opposition.

Mr. Elliot Breechley, landlord of the "Hearts of Oak," Sheerness, applied to the Bench to transfer the spirit licence of the "Army and Navy Inn" (which has been closed as a public house, and turned into a coffee tavern) to his house.

Mr. Stallon, who was acting for the opposition in the preceding case, supported the application in this; and was opposed by Mr. Douglas Kingswood.

The Bench at once refuse the application.