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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1878

23 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2

Royal Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 January 1878 · page 2

ANOTHER handsome addition has been made to to the buildings in the vicinity of the Lake Road. Mr. Thomas Smith, the contractor, has now nearly finished his work, and Mr. Palmer has…

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TELEGRAMS. Drought Broken Up. The Second Penrith Railway Accident. Staff and Ticket System on the G. N. Railway. Increase of Pay to Railway Employees. Bill to Amend Publicans' Act. SYDNEY. Recd, Tuesday, 9.10 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1878 · page 2

THE drought has broken up, and rain is general. It is now raining heavily in Sydney. The inquest on the second Penrith…

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Robbery at the Terminus Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1878 · page 4

As will be seen from all advertisement in another column, we have now in our midst one, if not more, midnight marauders whose notions of meant from are, to say the least of it, rather lax…

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Hotel Improvements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1878 · page 4

THE rage for improvements has received a decided impulse lately. There seems to be a very healthy rivalry amid the bonifaces of the city. Mr. Milthorp has lately opened a very…

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Transfer of License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1878 · page 2

AN application was made yesterday, at the Newcastle Police Court, by Mr. James Wilson, of the Racecourse Inn, for a transfer of his license to the new premises in front of the…

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The Liquor License Amendment Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1878 · page 2

THE Rev. J. A. Dowie, of Sydney, delivered a lecture in connection with the above association, last evening, in the Protestant Hall. The Rev. T. J. Pepper occupied the chair. There were…

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Liquor License Amendment Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 4

IN connection with the above association a committee was formed after the lecture delivered by the Rev. Mr. Dowie on Thursday evening, and the following officers were elected:—President,…

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Shooting Case at the Limerick Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1878 · page 2

ON Monday night a rather startling occurrence took place at the Limerick Hotel. It appears that a number of sailors were in drinking when one of them, the mate of a ship now in port,…

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City and District Newcastle. Timber Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 4

WE notice by a supplement to the Gazette of Wednesday, that timber licenses have been granted to Messrs. W. Stevenson. A. Fuller, J. Hyde, and L. Mooren, in the Newcastle…

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Great Northern Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 3

WE understand that it is the intention of the proprietor of the Great Northern Hotel, A. A. Dangar, Esq., of Baroona, to expend between £2000 and £3000 in renovating and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 2Nd July, 1878. (Before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and Dr. Brookes, J.p.) Publicans' Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1878 · page 2

A transfer of the license of the Royal Exchange Hotel, from Robert Claxton to James [?]razer, was granted; as was also that of the Shipwrights' Arms from J. Peterson to Robert…

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Waratah Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1878 · page 2

THERE were several applications for publicans licenses, on Tuesday, at the Waratah Court of Petty Sessions, but as there was only one magistrate present, the whole were postponed until…

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The Great Northern Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1878 · page 2

WE are informed that this hotel, when the alterations, additions, and improvements which are at present going on, are completed, is to be taken by Mr. S. S. Moses, at present proprietor of the…

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Trickett's Hotel Robbed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 September 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will learn with regret, that during the absence of the champion, Trickett, at the boat-race this afternoon, some dastardly fellows went into his hotel, and found their…

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Transfer of License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 4

ON Thursday, before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and G. Tully, Esq., J.P., the transfer of the license of the inn known as the City Wine Vaults from Samuel…

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The Late Sudden Death at the Bank Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will recollect the recent sudden death of the young girl Susan Travers, at the Bank Hotel, and the fact we announced of her stomach having been sent to the Government…

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The Late Jewellery Robbery at the Devonshire Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1878 · page 2

THERE is at present a fair prospect of the perpetrators of this robbery being punished for the crim. It will be in the recollection of our readrs that two men named John…

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Burglary at the Royal Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 October 1878 · page 3

BETWEEN 12 o'clock on Saturday night and 6 yesterday morning, an entrance was effected into the premises of the Royal Hotel, corner of Blane and Darby streets, and a sum of £18…

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Auctioneer's Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1878 · page 2

WE have been requested to remind parties who may be desirous of obtaining or renewing auctioneers' licenses (district or general) for 1879, that the list of applicants…

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Charlton's Hotel, Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1878 · page 2

MANY of our readers, whose business or recreation takes them to the metropolis, will be pleased to hear that the above famous hostelrey and well-known halting place of…

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