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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1902

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Tragedy at Cowra. Hotelkeeper Shot by His Housemaid. Preparations for a Wedding

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 4

Cowra, Thursday.—Last night, about 11.30, Maurice John Lee, a well-known townsman, and proprietor of the Club House Hotel, one of the leading hotels of the down, was fired at…

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Liquor Licensing Laws

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 2

FOR some considerable time both publicans and liquor traffic reformers have been loud in their demands for legislation on the liquor licensing laws but the…

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Tragedy at Cowra. an Extraordinary Affair. Hotelkeeper Shot. on the Eve of His Wedding by His Housekeeper

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 1

Cowra, Thursday.—Last night, about 11.30, Maurice John Lee, a well-known townsman, and proprietor of the Club House Hotel, one of…

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Auction[?]’ Licenses

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 26 November 1902 · page 2

ON Tuesday last a bench of magistrates, consisting of Messrs. R. W. Burstal, G. Si Whiteman, and R.W. Colline, granted renewals of district auctioneers Licenses to C. H. Ellerman R. J…

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Auctioneers’ Licenses

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 27 November 1902 · page 2

On Tuesday morning the business of the local Petty Sessions Court was devoted to the consideration of applications for Auctioneers’ licenses for the next year…

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The Lo[?]weir. a License Granted

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 27 November 1902 · page 2

A sitting of the Local Land Board took place in the Court House hereon Wednesday; the chairman was not able to be present, and Messrs. Ross and Gray…

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Hotel Fire in Chicago. London, Dec. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred in the Lincoln Hotel, Chicago, yesterday. Fourteen people perished in the flames, and 53 others were injured. Blinding snowstorms swept the English Channel…

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Secret Police at Big Hotels. Waiters As Detectives

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 4

IT is not generally known by those who stay at one of the large London hotels—those enormous caravanserais, each of which is almost a small town in itself—that they are…

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Licensing Court

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 17 December 1902 · page 3

An application by George Anderson for license for the 26th inst. for racesourse, Wombat, was granted. Renewals for a number of billiard licenses…

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