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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1890

74 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 4

Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 July 1890 · page 3

THE first quarterly sitting of the newly constituted Licensing Court for Broken Hill and district, consisting of Mr. Badham, P M. (chairman), and Messrs…

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Hotel Robberies. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. SYDNEY, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 July 1890 · page 3

Frederick Lee, alias Charles Wallace, was committed for trial this afternoon on charges of robbing several hotels…

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Swindling a Hotelkeeper. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 July 1890 · page 2

At the Hay Quarter Sessions yesterday. George Whitworth, an old offender, was sentenced to five years for victimising a local hotelkeeper…

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Licensing Court. Saturday July 19. (Before Mr. Badham, P.M., and Messrs. Z. Lane and G. A. Mills, L.Ms.) GRANTED

Barrier Miner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 2

THE following licenses were granted:— Patrick Quinn, for a booth at the coming Polo Club Races: W. H. Newton, booth at the Polo Club Races; James Brown,…

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Hotel Urinals

Barrier Miner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 2

AT the Licensing Court this morning, Mr. Alker, sanitary inspector, exhibited the plans of the proposed urinals to be used in connection with hotels. The plans…

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Hotel Urinals. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 July 1890 · page 2

SIR,—I noticed in your issue of the 19th instant that the sanitary inspector (Mr. Alker) is paying attention to the hotel urinals, and as the hot summer will soon…

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Peters' Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 July 1890 · page 2

MESSRS. Knight and Coagrove have bought the lease from Mr. Whittaker of the hotel known as Peters Hotel in Argent-street. Their first venture in…

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Peters' Hotel

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 July 1890 · page 3

THE change that has been made in this hotel in a few days only by Messrs. Cosgrove and Knight is something wonderful. It is being thoroughly renovated…

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N.S.W. Parliament. Promised Lexislation. Amendment of the Licensing Laws. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent, SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 24 July 1890 · page 2

The second reading of the Grown Rents Bill was mored in the Assembly last night by Mr. N. Brunker, Minister for Lands. The debate was adjouoned…

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The Fragrant Leaf. Selling Without a License [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 July 1890 · page 3

At the Water and Central Police Courts over 60 publicans and tobacconists were charged yesterday and this morning with selling tobacco without a license, and…

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A " Licensed " Robber. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. ADELAIDE, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 August 1890 · page 3

William Phillip Stoneham, aged 29, a respectable hotelkeeper at Hahndorf, whose arrest caused much local sensation, is now being tried at the Criminal Court,…

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Sympathy From Licensed Victuallers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 2

A meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association was held last night at the Australian Club, to consider the question of affording assistance to the strikers…

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The Palace Hotel. Fire the Work of an Incendiary. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. MELBOURNE, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 3

It has now been found that the fire at Palace Hotel is the work of an incendiary. This is the third fire within a short space which has been discovered at the same…

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The Palace Hotel. The Third Fire. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondents. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 2

Early this morning another fire was discovered in the Palace Hotel, Bourke-street. The bed-clothes in one of the rooms was found in a blaze, though the…

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A Licensing Question. [By TELEGRAPH.] Frerom Our Own Corspondent. MELBOURNE, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 September 1890 · page 3

The question as to whether a bookmaker can hold a wine license was decided to-day by Mr. Justice Hood, who says not, and called the licensing bench reasonable men…

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Licensed Victuallers Association

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 September 1890 · page 2

A meeting of the above association was held at noon to-day at the Australian Club Hotel, Mr. E. Resch in the chair. Mr. Finn proposed that a levy of £1 per week…

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Fire in a Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 September 1890 · page 2

THE Excelsior Hotel, West Broken Hill, was the scene of a conflagration on Saturday night which, but for the timely warning given by a passer by, might have…

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Broken Hill Licensing Court. Saturday, September 20. (Before C. L. C. Badham, Chairman, and Mr. G. A. Milla. L.M.)

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 2

THE following renewals were granted:—J. W. Harris, Railway Hotel, Broken Hill; A. H. Hengs, Albion Hotel, Waukaroo; P. Harvey, Willyama Hotel, Broken Hill;…

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Licenses for Booths

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 2

IN granting some certificates for booth licenses this morning the Licensing Bench stilted that they wished the promoters of spor's, &c., would sell the…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 September 1890 · page 2

A special meeting of the Broken Hill Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. C. L. C. Badham, chairman, and Mr. G. A. Mills, L M, when the…

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