Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, Natal 1912: William Marshall Arnold

The Royal Hotel, Murchison Street, Ladysmith, Natal, photographed in 1912 by F Atkinson, of whom no details are currently known. The owner of the hotel was William Marshall Arnold of Ladysmith, who got into hot water in 1898 when he was summoned in the Magistrate's Court for the Klip River Division as follows:

To CH Hendley Sergt NP Acting Messenger of the Court Summon Willam

Marshall Arnold of Ladysmith Hotel and Bar Keeper that he personally

appear before this Court at Ladysmith on the 21st October 1898 at 10

o'clock in the forenoon then to answer and abide the judgment of this

Court upon the complaint and information of the Local Board of the

township of Ladysmith that the said WM Arnold is guilty of the crime

or offence of contravening Section 65 Act 38 1896 In that on or about

the 15th October 1898 and at the Royal Hotel premises in Murchison

Street Ladysmith he being then the holder of a Hotel Bar License for

the said premises for the sale of intoxicating liquor did wrongfully

and unlawfully sell or keep his Bar or Buffet premises open for the

sale of intoxicating liquors and did supply persons namely James

Cairns of Ladysmith and Sergeant Lloyd of the Royal Irish Rifles with

certain intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the aforesaid licensed

premises between the hours of 11 'o clock at night and 6 'o clock in

the morning the aforesaid persons not being sleeping or boarding on

his hotel premises and to produce his liquor license and deliver the

same to the Magistrate on the day of hearing.

Serve on the said defendant a copy of this summons and then return to

this Court on that day what you have done thereon.

Given under my hand at Ladysmith this 17th day of October 1898

(Signed) HJ Colenbrander

Clerk of the Court

He was found guilty, appealed and had his appeals denied.

Acknowledgements to Dale Schultz