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Hotels & licensing, 1913

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Hotel Fire at Wellington. Girl Leaps From Balcony

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 13

A fire broke out at 1.30 on Friday morning in the Royal Hotel, the leading hotel in Wellington. The girls employed at the hotel were…

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Local News. Booth Licenses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 4

The Licensing (Magistrate, Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M., on Thursday granted booth licenses for the forthcoming Show, to James (Bradley, licensee of the…

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Man Shoots Himself. Hotel Sensation

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

A tragedy occurred late yesterday afternoon at the federal Hotel, Bourkestreet, Singleton, a man shooting himself with startling suddenness in an…

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Thief's Good Haul. Hotel Lodgers Robbed. Auckland

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 February 1913 · page 2

BANK notes, gold, silver, and jewellery, valued at £550, we stolen last night from the guests at the Grand Hotel. The burglarly was…

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Great Hotel Fire. Twenty of the Guests Perish. Omama

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 March 1913 · page 5

A hotel has been burned down and a score of the guest are dead in the ruins. Two of the guests became insane from fright. The wooden structure blazed with terrific…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1913 · page 2

The transfer of the license of the East Greta Hotel was granted from Francis G. Hill to George Herbert Watts, late of Goulburn…

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Hotels and Shops Ligtited by Candles

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1913 · page 5

The city of Sydney were a gloomy aspect on Saturday night and last night. Fortunately the streets of the city were brilliantly illuminated with electric light, but…

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Great Hotel Fire

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 March 1913 · page 4

Omaha, Saturday.—A hotel has been burned down and a score of the guests are dead in the ruins. Two of the guests became insane from fright. The…

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Sale of Publican's Booth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 4

Mr. J. Enright submitted at auction this afternoon, at his rooms, the right of conduction a publican's booth on the Albion Ground at St. Patirckl's Day sports, on…

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Shooting Affray in Sydney. Scene in a Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 2

Sydney yesterday excitement was [?] Sydney yesterday afternoon by a shooting affray in the Cambridge Hotel, at the cor[?] of Castlereagh and Market streets, as the…

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Great Hotel Fire. Twenty of the Guests Perish. Omaha

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 3

A hotel has been burned down and a score of the guests are dead in the ruins. Two of the guests became insane from fright. The wooden, structure blazed with terrific…

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Shooting Sensation. in a City Hotel (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

At the Cambridge Hotel, Castlereagtstreet, late, this afternoon, Alfred Hatton, bookmaker, shot Violet Coughlar. in the breast, afterwards turning the…

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Trasfer of a License

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

Sitting in the Licensing Court at the West Maitland police court, this morning, Mr. C H. Gale, P.M., granted the transfer of the license of the Carrington Hotel from…

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A Licensing Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 5

The Full Court held that a magistrate at Young was correct in granting conditional license for hotel promises to be erected in Murrumburrah. It appeared that at the…

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Kittens in an Hotel Organ

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 3

Evary time one of the bass pipes in the organ that stands in the main dining-room of the Waldorf-Astoria (New york) was sounded it gave an…

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Shooting Affray in Sydney. Scene in a Hotel

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 11

Considerable excitement was caused in Sydney on Friday afternoon by a shooting affray in the Cambridge Hotel, at the corner of Castlereagh and Market streets, as the…

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Licensed Surveyors' Examination

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 4

Evidently it is not an easy matter to pass the examination to become a full-fledged surveyor in New South Wales. According to the last annual report of the…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 4

A special licensing court was held at the West Maitland Courthouse this morning, before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., Elias Bowden, and J. W. Birkenhead, L.Ms…

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Dramatic Suicide. in an Hotel Bar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

In circumstances of a dramatic character a [?] in met his death in an hotel in Flinders-street, Melbourne, on Wednesday. Where he came from is not known, nor has his body been identified…

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Dramatic Suicide in Hotel Bar. Man Drinks Poison

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 2

An unknown man entered the bar of the Great Britain Hotel, Flinders-street, Melbourne, on Wednesday, and began a conversation with a sailor. Drinks…

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