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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1870

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Legislative Assembly. Stripping Bark Without License

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1870 · page 2

Mr. ONSLOW asked the Secretary for Lands,—"Has the attention of the Government been called to the fact that the stripping of bark by persons not holding timber licenses is becoming prevalent?"…

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Destruction of the Old Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 5

The old Star and Garter Hotel, so long known as a resort of convivial parties from London, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour on the morning of Jan. 12. Only three…

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A Grand Apartment Hotel in New York. (From the New York Evening Post.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 4

Mr. Paran Stevens is soon to build, on the corner of Broadway and Twenty-seventh streets, a splendid apartment hotel, which will run through to Fifth avenue. Excavations are now…

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