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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1883

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

Publicans! Look at This

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 7

"ÆGLES," in the Melbourne Australasian, says:—"I don't know whether the same law of landlord and lodger exists in Victoria as in[?]…

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The Police, the Parliament, and the Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 February 1883 · page 2

THE printed reports of certain speeches lately made in the Assembly by Members of the Legislature must have given the public of this colony a…

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Burning of an American Hotel — Reported Loss of Sixty Lives

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 3

New Hall House, Milwaukee, the largest hotel in the State of Wisconsin, which has rooms for eight hundred guests, was on January 10 totally consumed by fire, and…

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The S.s. Morpeth Licensing Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1883 · page 4

As the following decision is of some consequence to travellers to Newcastle, we have reproduced it in detail from the S. M. Herald:—…

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Breach of the Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1883 · page 2

SINGLETON, Wednesday.—Peter Sattler, of Goorangoola, was fined £30 and costs to-day, at the Police Court, for selling colonial wine without a license. This is the…

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Original Correspondence. Market Square Hotels. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1883 · page 3

SIR,—Referring to statements made at the last Borough Council meeting by Aldermen Dart and Thorn, about "a disgracefully low public-house at the rear of the…

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An Amended Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1883 · page 2

THE fact of the present Government having intimated their intention of shortly introducing an Amended Licensing Bill, affords an opportunity…

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The Proposed Licensing Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The proposed new Licensing Bill contains twenty-seven clauses, with alterations which concern the public principally. The publican is not to be made…

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Breaches of the Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1883 · page 4

AN interesting return was laid on the table of the House on Wednesday night, showing the number of persons arrested and convicted of drunkenness, and the number of…

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The Amending Licensing Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 April 1883 · page 2

THE real battle of the session in connection with the above Bill may be said to have taken place on Friday evening last. There have been…

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Debate on the Licensing Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 April 1883 · page 2

IN the Assembly, on Friday, after other business had been disposed of as reported in our Saturday's issue the House went into committee to consider the postponed clauses…

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The Last Throes of the Licensing Act Amendment Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1883 · page 4

ONCE more this remarkable specimen of Australian legislation in connection with one of the most important branches of revenue and public…

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Legal Intelligence. Newcastle Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 2

AT the above Court on Monday, applications for the transfer of hotel licenses were granted in the following cases:—G. G. H. Collins, Castlemaine Hotel, to Joan…

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The Sale at Punch's Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 2

ONE of the memories of the past faded yesterday, when the Lares and Penates of Punch's Hotel, corner of Pitt and King street, were sold by Mr. T. P. Lester, the…

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Mind-reading Seance at the Great Northern Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, at the invitation of Professor Rice, the well-known "mind-reader," physiognomist, electro-biologist, etc., a large and fashionable gathering of ladies and gentlemen met in the…

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Original Correspondence. Alderman Creer and the Licensed Victuallers. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 August 1883 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of Wednesday there was a letter written by a Lover of Fair Play" re Alderman Creer and the licensed victuallers. I endorse every world of that beautiful panegyric, and I hope…

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Mr. Creer and the Publicans. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1883 · page 2

SIR,—As I wish to be acquainted with both sides of any matter in dispute. I have impartially read a quantlty of what has appeared in your columns respecting the above. It was not my intention to take…

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A Hotel Burned Down

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 September 1883 · page 2

DUBBO, Saturday.—Mr. Berry's hotel at Tomingley, was destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning. Nothing was saved. The building was the property of Mr. Edwin…

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Attempted Suicide by a Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1883 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man named Brown, a publican, of Milton, attempted suicide by hanging himself in a stable. Fortunately he was found and cut down…

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Suicide of a Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 September 1883 · page 2

COBAR, Tuesday.—Daniel Maher, a publican of this town, committed suicide yesterday, by shooting himself…

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