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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1904

128 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 7

Beer Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 3

The Full Court held to-day that Stale licenses Were unnecessary for a person carrying on the manufacture of beer, a Commonwealth license being quite sufficient…

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Fires at Corowa. Narrow Escape of Racehorses An Hotel Burned at Hay

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 3

ON Friday last two stacks of hay, about 40 tons, and a large stack of straw, the property of Mr J. Clifford Wahgunyah were destroyed by fire…

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Singleton Licensing Court. Tuesday May 3Rd ,1904

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 May 1904 · page 2

Application was made for the transfer of a publican's license of the Court House Hotel from Ann M'Cosker Bernard Burke.There were no Police…

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Closing Hotels at Ten

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 13

The justices of Glasgow and Edinburgh are once more seeking to enforce the sobriety of their fellow-citizens by act of Parlia-ment. For many years there has been…

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The Court House Hotel

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 4

The above well and favourably known hostelry has changed hands, as will be seen by another paragraph in this issue. Mr Bernard Burke, the new landlord, is a native…

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Fire at Quirindi. Hotel and Contents Destroyed. Quirindi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 3

This morning, shortly after 4 o'clock Dodds' Club Hotel, Whittaker-street, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Alexander Dodds, the landlord, was awakened by a child…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 3

Extraordinary interest in being taken in the Licensing Bill. Eight, sacks of postcards, and circulars were delivered at the House of Commons yesterday, chiefly…

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English Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 3

In the House of Commons last night the debate on the Licensing Bill was continued, and was further adjourned. Mr. Thomas Burt (Liberal) moved that the bill be…

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English Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 3

The Licensing Bill was read the second time in the House of Commons last night, the division being :—Ayes, 353; noes, 196. Majority, 157. The majority included 43…

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Fire at Quirindi. Hotel and Contents Destroyed. Quirindi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 7

This morning, shortly after 4 o'clock, Dodds' Club Hotel, Whittaker-street, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Alexander Dodds. the landlord, was awakened by a child…

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VITADATIO. STIlL Triumphant. Constipation Cured. Tattersall's Hotel, Sydney, July 7th 1903

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1904 · page 2

Dear Sir,—While in Ballarat last Xmas I was in the theatre and saw your advertisement, and, suffering from Constipation, thought I would give your remedy a trial,…

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New Zealand Licensing Law

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 3

The appeal to the Judicial Committee in the Privy Council in the Newtown (New Zealand) licensing case (Smith v. M'Arthur) was heard by the Earl of Halsbury (the…

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The Sketcher. Dinners and Diners. Hotel do Path

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3

He is a rising young artist with an idea, an idea which is, or was, to make him and me rich beyond dreams of avarice all that is wanted now being a publisher who will…

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Special Licensing Court

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 2

It is notified in another column that a Special Licensing Court for the Licensing District of Murrurundi will be held at the local Court House at 11 a.m. on…

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The Sketcher. Dinners and Diners. Hotel de Paris

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3

He is a rising young artist with an idea, an idea which is, or was, to make him and me rich beyond dreams of avarice; all that is wanted now being a publisher who will…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 May 1904 · page 3

Transfer of Licences.—Applications for the transfer of wine and spirit licenses from Samnel Owen to Thomas William Line were granted.—The Heense of the Family Hotel was transferred from Thomas…

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Hotel Affray. The Landlord Shoots

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 3

ABOUT dusk on Saturday a cart drove up to the Ultimo Hotel, Quay-street, Sydney, with two men in it. They alighted from the vehicle, and…

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Early Closing of Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1904 · page 5

The closing of public houses in Glasgow at 10 instead of 11 o'clock has reduced the police arrests in the city by nearly one-half…

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Honeymoon Hotels. Special Suites for Brides and Bridegrooms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 5

The latest feature in the equipment if a first-class hotel is the provision of special honeymoon suites. Many of the best, hotels in London…

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Compensation to Publicans

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1904 · page 2

The motion for the first rending of a bill providing that compensation be paid to publi­cans, the renewal of whose licenses shall not be granted, was carried in the House of Commens…

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