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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1910

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The Melbourne Hotel Tragedy. Further Particulars. Victims Passed of As Married Couple. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 4

Further particulars of the tragedy at the Sir Waiter Scott Hotel, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, are available. Tunks and Mrs. Dean lived together…

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The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Third Edition. a Melbourne Hotel Tragedy. Man and Woman the Victims. Found-lying in the Passages. Horrible Gashes in Their Throats. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 6

A man and a woman were found lying in two passages at the Sir Walter Scott Hotel, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, to-day weltering in blood…

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Special-licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 4

Mr. F. W. Garstang, D.S.M., and Mr. J. Bristowe. L.M., sat in the Special Licensing Court this morning, and granted a renewal of an additional bar…

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Enemies of Liberals. Brewers and Publicans. Roman Catholics and Labor Leagues. Speech by Sir Joseph Carruthers

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 2

Sir Joseph Garruthers, now untrammelled by the responsibilities of party leadership, made a fighting speech at the conference of the Liberal and…

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Hotel Gambling. a Sunday Moring Raid

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

James Duggan (Victoria Hotel, corner Bay and Graham streets) was charged at Port Melbourne yesterday (reports the "Age" of May 31) with…

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No License. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 7

Sir,—"Progress" is still making futile attempts to prove that prohibition Maine is a poor State, that prohibition is a failure, and alcohol a food. In…

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A Sydney Sensation. Man Fires Revolver Shot Into Hotel Yard. Narrow Escape of Publican's Wife. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 June 1910 · page 4

A sensation was caused in Sussexstreet, Sydney, on Saturday, when a man tired a revolver in the back yard of a house…

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A Hotel Theft. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 4

Mrs. Duggan, hotelkeeper of Flinders-street, Melbourne, reports the theft from her bedroom of £100 and a draft for £500…

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NO-LICENSE. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 6

Sir,—Prohibition is an antiquated philosophy. The fact is that prohibition was devised in the days when individualism was triumphant, when…

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Drink and No-license. a Synod Debate. Bishop Condemns Local Option

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 2

The session of the Newcastle Anglican Synod on Friday night was chiefly occupied with a lively discussion on the no-license…

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Serious Hotel Quarrel. Man's Skull Injured

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 4

John Sands, aged 25, laborer, residing in Isaac-street, Brunswick, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Wednesday, suffering from a wound on…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 4

Mr. F. W. Garstang, D.S.M., chairman of the Licensing Bench, presided over the Licensing Court this morning. The colonial wine licenses, held by…

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A Hotelkeeper's Death. Fell Out of a Coach. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 1

Henry Ferris, a hotelkeeper at Elmore, was travelling in a coach to the hospital yesterday, when he fell out of the coach and died immediately…

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Alleged Sunday Trading. at Westralian State Hotel. Perth

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 2

Interest attaches to the Leonora report that the State hotel at Gwalia did excellent business on the occasion of a football match last Sunday…

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A Hotel Quarrel. Charged with Manslaughter and Acquitted. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 7

At the Criminal Court, Adelaide, to-day, Robert Henry Hossack (23) was charged with the manslaughter of Frederick James Gale on May 7…

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The State Hotel. Perth

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

The Commissioner of Police denies that the State Hotel at Gwalia is open to the public on certain hours on Sunday. Only bona-fide travellers, he…

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Alleged Breach of the Liquor Act. Licensee of the Wilcannia Club Hotel Charged. the Charge Sustained

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 4

In the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. F. W. Garstang, D.S.M., Charles Berkholz, licensee of the Wilcannia Club Hotel, was charged with…

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No-license Campaign. Open-air Meeting

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 4

A meeting in prosecution of the nolicense campaign was held under the auspices of the Barrier Temperance Alliance on Saturday night at the…

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The No-license Campaign. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 3

Sir,—I listened to two of the speak ers on the No-license question on Saturday evening, and I must say that they did not bear a single argument…

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A Hotel Tragedy. Inquest on Victims. the Coroner's Remarks. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 6

At the inquest to-day. on the bodies of Mrs Melaine Dean and John Tunks, the victims of the hotel tragedy in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, the…

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