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Hotels & licensing, 1881

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The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, July 16, 1881. the Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1881 · page 4

PENDING our preparation of a summary of this measure, we purpose briefly to set forth its more salient features. Licensing districts are to be constituted, wherein licensing courts…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1881 · page 3

Following is a full summary of part of the provisions of the bill to remodel the law relating to publicans and other persons engaged in the sale of liquor. We shall give…

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The[?] Publicans' Opinion of the Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1881 · page 7

The Sydney Daily Telegraph thus summarises a petition adopted at a meeting on Monday of the City and Provisional Licensed Victuallers Association:…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1881 · page 6

Following is a summary of the remaining portion of the Licensing Bill. The local option sections, on which we comment elsewhere, we print in full, as they constitute the…

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Publicans and the Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 July 1881 · page 4

LICENSED victuallers have nowhere exhibited any movement against the Licensing bill, except in Sydney. We must therefore assume that they acquiesce in the petition of…

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Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, July 30, 1881. the Licensing Bill and Australian Wine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1881 · page 4

WHEN the Licensing bill is under consideration, the question will arise whether the provisions it substitutes for the two Acts regulating the sale of Australian wine are…

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The New Licensing Bill at Paterson. (From an occasional corrrespondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1881 · page 4

A public meeting, which had been duly called by advertisement in the Mercury, was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Paterson, on Friday evening, to consider amendments in the New Licensing Bill now…

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The New Licensing Bill. Public Meeting at Hinton

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1881 · page 7

The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, working under the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the World, has sent out a manifesto to the subordinate…

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The Licensing Hill. Public Meeting at Largs

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1881 · page 6

A public meeting was held in the School of Arts, Largs, on Monday evening, for the purpose of taking into consideration certain proposed amendments in the Licensing Bill before…

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The New Licensing Bill at Paterson. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1881 · page 5

SIR,—I observe a letter in your issue of Saturday last, referring to my report of the public meeting held here on Friday, 29th ultimo, the writer of which designates himself "Truth," which I cannot, with…

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Licensing and Public Houses. [CONTRIBUTED.]

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 1

I HAVE a few words to say about Licensing and Public Houses from an anti-teetotal point of view. It is so much the fashion now-a-days to cry down publicans and…

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The Licensing Bill and Metropolitan Magistrates

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 2

The following petition (says the Echo) is being signed by metropolitan magistrates:- "To the Honorable the Speaker and the Honorable the Members of the Legislative Assembly, of…

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The New Licensing Bill. Public Meeting at Branxton. (From our own Reporter.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 6

On Thursday evening a public meeting, convened at the instance of the Anchor of Hope Lodge, No. 254, I.O.G.T., was held in the School of Arts, Branxton. There was a moderate attendance. The…

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The Licensing Bill. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 August 1881 · page 7

SIR,—I regret very much to find your occasional correspondent smarting under the castigating he received last week anent the above subject, and I cannot but smile at his pitiful boyish and feeble…

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The Licensing Bill. Public Meeting in Singleton

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 August 1881 · page 2

0N Monday night a public, meeting presided over by the Mayor, was held in the Oddfellows Hall, for the purpose of considering amendments in the new licensing…

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"The Licensing Bill at Paterson."—erratum. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1881 · page 8

SIR,—The printer appears to have made two mistakes in printing my letter of the 27th instant. If you refer to my manuscript, you will find that I wrote nom de plume and…

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The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, September 13, 1881. the Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1881 · page 4

SIR HENRY PARKES concluded his speech in moving the second reading of the Licensing Bill, by inviting members to give him hearty and generous assistance in perfecting the…

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The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, September 17, 1881. the Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 4

THE week has been lost by the Assembly in discussing the second reading of this bill. It is lost because the second reading is a foregone conclusion, and we shall have the talk…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1881 · page 4

As amended in the Assembly, the Licensing Bill thus provides for the constitution of licensing courts in proclaimed licensing districts: The court in the Metropolitan district will…

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