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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1883

17 stories in Illawarra's papers

The Licensing Act

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 4

A MEETING for the purpose of forming a league, with a view to effect improvements in the Licensing Act, and to watch its administration, was held in the Temperance…

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Licensing Court. Friday, Jan. 19. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Biggar and Jenkins, Js. P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 2

A booth license was granted to George Clout for the Wollongong Agricultural Society's Show ground on the Show days. James Anderson applied for the transfer of his…

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Correspondence. the New Publican's Act. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 2

SIR,—The injustices practiced upon publicans in introducing the new Act exist now but as mementoes—past, but not forgotten. Our laws abound in artificialities, and in…

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Burning of a Large Hotel. New York, Jan. 10

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1883 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fire occurred at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. Newhall House, a large six-story hotel, took fire at 4 o'clock in the morning. The flames spread with…

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Public Meeting. the Licensing Act

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1883 · page 2

WHAT was intended to have been a "monster' public meeting for the purpose of protesting against the expungment of several beneficial clauses in the Licensing…

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The Amending Licensing Act

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1883 · page 2

THE amending Licensing Bill was tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday night. Under it, amongst other matters, a publican is only to be fined for delay in admitting the…

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Amending Licensing Bill

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1883 · page 4

The following is a synopsis of the Amending Licensing Bill. Section 1 repeals partially, or wholly, the clauses of the principal Act affected by…

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The Licensing Act Amendment Bill. (To the Editor of the "Illwarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 March 1883 · page 2

SIR,—With all the talk and all the contributions of the Press on the subject of the Land laws, it is a fact which must be evident to any thoughtful spectator that it was not the land policy of the…

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The Licensing Art Amendment Bill (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 30 March 1883 · page 2

SIR.—In your issue of the 27th inst., "Onlooker"—who, by the way, seems to look on with his eyes closed—makes the astounding statement that the papacy and the particulars are re-possible…

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The Licensing Act Amendment Bill. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 2

SIR,—"A Coalminer" credits [?] "looking on" with my eyes closed. Please pardon me if I think my friend surely wears strangely-coloured glasses, for this is the only way I can account for…

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Licensing Court. Friday, April 20. (Before Mr. A. A. Turner, P M, and Mr. Biggar and Mr. W. J. R. Jenkins, Js. P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 24 April 1883 · page 2

Mr. Lysaght presented a petition signed by himself and all the other hotelkeepers in the Wollongong police District, requesting that the Court should be adjourned until near the end of June,…

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Licensing Court. Monday, April 30. (Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Biggar, and Jenkins, Js. P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1883 · page 2

Robert Osborne, charged with keeping an unlicensed billiard table, pleaded guilty, and was fined £3. A billiard license was granted to Robert Osborne…

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Licensing Court. Same Day. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. J. Biggar, J.P)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 8 May 1883 · page 2

Maria Clarke, charged with permitting a lad under 18 years of age to piny upon a billiard table in her licensed house, pleaded guilty, but said she believed at the time that the lad in…

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Licensing Court. Friday, May 18. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Jenkins and Biggar, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1883 · page 2

The following applications for renewals of license were granted, there being no objections:— Theodore Bode, Royal Victoria Hotel, Fairy Meadow…

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Licensing Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1883 · page 2

Before Messrs. H. Connell and James Colley, licensing magistrates. Thomas Coughran, of the Royal Hotel, applied for the transfer of his license to…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, October 23

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1883 · page 2

Before Messrs. Connell, Colley, and Miller, licensing magistrates. The business before the Court was the consideration of an application for the…

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Proposed Amendment of the Licensing Act

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 November 1883 · page 2

Mr. Oliffe, the senior member for South Sydney is an intelligent member of the Legislature. But he is influenced by his calling, and by the representative position…

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