The first quarterly meeting of the newly elected Licensing Committee for the city was held at the Police Court yesterday. Present: Messrs R. L. Stanford (in the chair), S. Myers, J. B. Callan, R, S. Sparrow, and R. Forrest, On the committee taking their seats, Mr Stanford said : I have to announca that the committee have done me the honour to elect me as chairman for the ensuing year, aud have asked me to make one or two remarks about the conduct of business here. I may say the committee are unanimous in saying that they propose to carry out the law exactly as it stands m its entirety, and with care and atten tion lne committee are fully alive to the fact that there are at present too many hotels in Llunedm, and would gladly see a considerable number of them closed; but they respect the vested rights of property holders, and would bo unwilling to interfere with those rights unless some serious offence gave occasion for dealing vnth an offending publican. The committee especially asked me to say that they regard themselves as a continuing committee, and desire to carry on the work of their predecessors, especially in this respect: that where warnings have been given to hotelkeepers during the past year, those warnings will be considered by this committee to have been given during the pre sent year, and no further warning will be deemed necessary by this committee. I wish especially to lay emphasis on this.becauseinpreeeding years it has happened that ineffectual warnings have year after year been given, and no result has fol lowed. It is specially necessary] to put it ex plicitly and plainly that those previous warn ings will be considered by this committee in dealing with each case as it comes before them Another remark I have to make h on the sub ject of trading after II o'clock. This committee, like its predecessors, is prepared to grant 11 o clock licenses, and we wish especially to point out that in dealing with any possible offence, trading after 11 o'clock will be considered as though, it were trading after midnight. This is a remark my predecessor in office made, and I have to repeat it now. 