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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1913

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Incendiarism at Whitfield. Attempt to Burn Hotel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1913 · page 20

A sensation was caused in the Whitfield district on Saturday when a well-known resident named Henry Herbert; Smith, baker, was arrested and charged with…

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Special Licensing Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1913 · page 2

A Special Licensing Court was held here on Saturday last before Messrs. Elliott and Wilson, J'sP. An application for the transfer of the…

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Licenses Reduction Board. Sitting at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1913 · page 5

On Monday last Messrs. Chas. L. Andrews (chairman), Robert Barr, and T. F. Cumming, members of the above board, sat at the Court House,…

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Licenses Reduction Board. Sittings at Rutherglen. Three Hotels to Be Delicensed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 April 1913 · page 2

The Licenses Reduction Board concluded its sittings at Rutherglen on Tuesday. The chairman stated that the principal discussion had been whether…

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Mrs. Pankhurst's Condition Critical. She Tore Up License of Release From Prison

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 April 1913 · page 2

The doctors stare that Mrs Pankhurst, who has been released from Hoileway prison on license issued by Mr. Mckenna, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, has…

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License Reduction at Tallangatta. Decision of Board

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 April 1913 · page 2

The Board has finished the hearing of the eight cases listed in the Towong Licousing District. Mr. Lyne appeared for the owners and licensees of the Bridge…

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Wodonga Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 April 1913 · page 3

Before Mr. A. Aldridge Kelley, P.M., yesterday, an application was made made for transfer of the House of the Terminus Hotel, Wodonga, from Stephen Carkeek…

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Licensing Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 April 1913 · page 2

At the Jerilderie Licensing Court on Monday last, before the P.M. and Messrs. Wilson and Elliott, Js.P., the quarterly reports of the sub-inspectors for the…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Wednesday, April 16, 1913. (Before Mr. H. F. Roberts, P.M.; and Dr. W. H. Lang, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 April 1913 · page 5

The licensing inspector (Senior Sergeant Hanna) submitted his quarterly report on the hotels in the Corowa licensing district, which was dealt with…

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Fire in a Hotel Seven People Incinerated. Woman's Leap for Life. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 2

A tragic confl[?]gration occurred in Now York city in the early hours of yesterday mornings. The Hotel Malone caught [?] and seven people were overcome by the…

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Hotel Accommodation in the City

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 5

The application of Mr. Arthur [?] for the removal of the license of the Metropolitan Hotel to the [?] Cafe was heard at the City Licensing Court…

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Burning Down a with Field Hotel. Resident Committed for Trial

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 6

Henry Herbert Smith, a well-known resident of Whitfield, was charged before Mr. J. W. Beaven, P.M., at the Wangaratta police court on Thursday by…

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On Hotel Premises on

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 6

Four defendants, more or less connected with the New South Wales railway department, named Adolph Frederick Olson Archibald McLean, Harold Ernest…

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Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 18

In chambers before Mr. Roberts L.M. upon the application of Colonel Wilkinson, the license of the Royal Hotel. Townsend-street, Albury, was transferred…

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Burning Down an Hotel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 33

Henry Herbert Smith, a well-known resi-dent of Whitfield, was charged before Mr. J. W. Beaven, P.M., at the Wangaratta court by Detective Sullivan with having on…

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Word From Down the Line. Club Hotel, Cootamundra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 13

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner." I am very interested in the Children's Page. I go to school, and I am in fourth class. My friend…

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Local and General. Licensing Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 2

At an adjourned meeting of the Quarterly Licensing Court held here on Saturday last, before Messre. Elliott and Wilson, Js.P., the…

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A City License Transferred

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. Usher, Licensing Magistrate, to-day granted an application for the transfer of the license from the Metropolitan Hotel to the Trocadero…

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Bomb at Grand Hotel. Woman Caught Redhanded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 2

A woman was arrested yesterday morning while in the net of placing a bomb with a lighted fuse in the Grand Hotel, Charing Cross. The constable extinguished the…

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Larrikinism in Bourke Street. Seouel to Hotel Wrecking

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 4

An exiting scene was enacted in Bourke street shortly after 9 o'clock on Tuesday night. It began in the Old England Hotel situated between Swanston and Russell…

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