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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1885

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A Nice Point for Publicans

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1885 · page 8

AT the Collingwood Court a few days ago, Mr. William Cody, license of the Abbotsford Hotel, Johnston-street, came forward and addressed the Bench…

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The Licensing Act and the Salvation Army. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 3

SIR,—Would you oblige me by inserting in your widely circulated paper the following letter, in answer to one signed "J. Castles."…

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Licensed Victuallers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 4

The Licensed Victuallers' Association had a successful picnic Yesterday, A race for a thirty-guinea trophy, for bona-fide publicans, had 29 entries, and was won by…

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Newcastle Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 May 1885 · page 2

THE Newcastle Quarterly Licensing Court was held yesterday morning before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. W. K. Lochhead and Dr. Morgan, licensing magistrates…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, 21St May

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3

CONDITIONAL LICENSE.—An application for a conditional license was made at the court yesterday by William Deusley, but as the Local Option vote at Wickham was…

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A Publican Suicides

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—John Spencer Murphy, the landlord of Hickey's hotel, Market and Kent streets, has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a…

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Something Like an Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1885 · page 8

A REMARKABLE change has been witnessed in the hotel system of London of late years. The old fashioned hotels are gradually giving place to buildings…

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Daring Hotel Robberies in Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 June 1885 · page 7

A BURGLAR named George Reilly was arrested in the act of robbing the Albion Hotel, South Melbourne, last Sunday night. When discovered in a bedroom he threw two…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1885 · page 4

A METTING of the council of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was held on the 4th instant at the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, Mr. J. B. Office,…

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Suicide of a Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Mr. Ernest Herbert Eisefder, landlord of the Kensington Hotel, hanged himself on Tuesday by a pocket-bandkerchief attached to an iron…

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Hotel Changes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1885 · page 5

MR. EDWARD SCOTT, so long and favourably known as "mine host" of the Albion Hotel, Watt-street, has taken the Bellevue Hotel, a well-known hostelry, formerly occupied by…

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Our Licensing Laws

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 2

AT the annual sitting of the Newcastle Licensing Court yesterday no less than 122 applications for renewals were granted. In no single instance…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Annual Meeting for Renewals. Thursday, June 18. (Before the P.M., Dr. Morgan, and Mr. W. K. Lockhead.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 2

RENEWALS.—No less than 122 applications were made for renewals of licenses for hotels in the City of Newcastle, Stockton, and Hamilton. There was not a single…

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The Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 3

It is reported that the first measures for discussion in Parliament will be an amendment of the Licensing Act, and the Reciprocity Treaty with Tasmania…

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Curious Licensing Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 3

An action, brought by Mr. S. Strettle against Mr. Whelan, to eject him from the Union Hotel, Bourke-street West, on the ground that Whelan did not conduct the…

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Palace Hotel in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2

SAYS the Sydney Morning Herald:—"According to the opinions of travellers of mark who have recently visited Australia, one of the greatest defects…

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The Theatre Royal License. (Sydney Daily Telegraph) Johns' Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 June 1885 · page 4

ON Saturday it was announced in the Press that a lecture would be delivered by Mr. Thomas Walker, in the Theatre Royal, on the subject of "State Murders of Capital…

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South Australia. a Hotel Burnt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The Globe Hotel, Mt. Gambler, has been totally destroyed by fire. It was insured in the Cornwall Insurance Company for £2500…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Dr. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J's.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 5

ALLEGED SERING AFTER PROHIBITED HOURS.—Emanuel Pitchford, of the Cross Keys Hotel, Tighe's Hill, was prosecuted for having served liquor in his licensed…

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Waratah Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1885 · page 8

On Wednesday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. E. Turtoa, J.P., the license of the Criterion Hole:, Plattsburg, was transferred from J. P. Taylor to George Bunn…

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