Publicans Fined
SYDNEY, Friday.—Two publicans have been fined £4 each for serving intoxicating liquor to drunken men…
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Hotels & licensing, 1885
104 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
The Victim of the Coffee Palace Hotel Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—The inquest on the remains of the late Mr. Hil, who was burnt to death at the Coffee Palace Hotel, was continued: to-day, and further adjourned…
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EARLY yesterday morning a number of drunken seamen were noticed staggering around the main thoroughfares. The police, headed by Sub-inspector Lynch,…
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BEFORE Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. W. Denald, J.P. An important case was dealt with yesterday at the Police Court. The application of Mr. John Hickinbotham…
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NARRANDERA, Saturday.—Gain's Commercial Hotel at Narrandera was burnt down yesterday. The origin of the fire is unknown, but incendiarism is suspected…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A woman named Elizabeth McSweeney, wife of Mr. Robert McSweeney, who keeps the Great Britain Hotel, at the corner of King and Kent…
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THE members of the Newcastle Licensed Victuallers' Trade Protection Society held a specially convened meeting at the Criterion Hotel last night. There was a good attendance, and the proceedings were…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Judges in Chambers, have granted bail to J. F. Cripps, himself in £500 and two sureties of £250 each…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.— J. F. Coulthard, 36 years of age, a recent arrival from the South African diamond fields, has been arrested for having committed numerous…
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AT 10 a.m. on Saturday the Returning-Officer formally declared the results of the recently announced municipal elections for the various wards. There were none (or…
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A HOTEL "barber" was apparently at work at Cox's Yacht Club Hotel, Hunter-street, last Wednesday. Between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. a bedroom was "gone…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Government Gazette announces that Messrs. Cosby William Morgan, M.D., J.P., and Wm. Kerr Lochhead, J.P., are to be the appointed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eliza Rody, who rented the bar of the Golden Age Hotel, Lower George-street, has been fined £30 for not holding a license to sell…
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SIR,—Will you allow me a short space in your valuable paper to say a few words with reference to Sunday closing of public-houses. There is, I believe a law which…
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THE Proposal to make the Australian champion, William Beach, independent for life is an admirable one (says the Echo), and will, no doubt, be carried out as promptly…
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A SOMEWHAT peculiar case was dealt with at the Sydney Water Police Court on Thursday. Walter Thomas Quinn, of the Golden Age Hotel, Lower George-street,…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Balaklava Hotel, Adelaide, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Only a portion of the furniture was saved. The fire is supposed to have…
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ON Saturday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J.P., licensing magistrates, James Mitchell applied for a publican's license for a house at Jesmond, near…
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A MEETING of the above took place at Hollinshead's Royal Exchange Hotel last evening. There was a large number of publicans present; Mr. H. Buchanan in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing at Wallsend. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Would you please publish in your widely-circulated paper a few truths concerning the licensing of an hotel now occupied by Mr. R. Taylor…
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