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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1887

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, April 28. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan, Licensing Magistrate.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1887 · page 3

William Beverage was prosecuted for having on Sunday the 24th inst., at 3 p.m., kept his licensed premises, known as the Racecourse Inn, situated…

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The Price of Drink. Meeting of Licensed Victuallers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1887 · page 7

A GENERAL meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association was held yesterday afternoon at Brent's Tattersall's Hotel. There was a large attendance of members,…

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The Licensed Victuallers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 7

AN adjourned meeting of the members of the Great Northern Licensed Victuallers Association was held yesterday morning at the Hunter River Hotel, Newcastle, when Mr…

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Hamilton. Meeting of Hotelkeepers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 3

A meeting of the hotelkeepers of Hamilton was held in Williams' Hotel yesterday morning. Present—Messrs. Williams, Campbell, Cherry, Eyrie,…

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Licensed Victualaers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1887 · page 8

A MEETING of Glebe hotelkeepers was held yesterday in Mrs. Goldring's Hotel Glebe There were present—Messrs. Allanson, Davis, Thomas, Beveridge, Cree, Redhead,…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan, and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J's.P.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1887 · page 3

WILLIAM RICKARDS, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, was charged with a breach of the Licensing Act, by selling liquor on Sunday last…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, Js.P.) Transfer Postponed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1887 · page 6

THE application for the transfer of the license of the Universal Hotel, Hamilton, from Herbert O'Teale to Henry Smith, late of Sydney, was postponed…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 26. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, Js.P.) Failing to Produce a License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 7

PETER BOCK, the holder of a colonial wine license for premises in Blanestreet, was charged under the Licensing Act with failing to produce the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Monday, May 30. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, Js.P,) Order for Confiscation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 6

MR. C. W. LINDEN was summoned, under the Licensing Act, to show cause why certain casks and apparatus used in the manufacture of a certain…

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Private Bars in Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 6

MR. E. J. H. KNAPP, hon. secretary to the Local Option League, waited upon the Minister for Justice on Tuesday, for the purpose of inducing the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., W. K. Lochhead, J.P., and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1887 · page 3

THE business of the court was the renewal of the licenses which elapse by their annual effluxion. There were 94 applications for renewals of…

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Which I Have Bought a Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 July 1887 · page 4

MY congregation will remember how, a few weeks ago, I disappeared from Newcastle and the scene of my usual splendours. Several hotels closed their doors in…

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Licensed Victuallers' Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 3

THE annual meeting of the Great Northern Licensed Victuallers' Association was held yesterday forenoon at Latham's Hall, Newcomon-street. There was a moderate…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Wednesday, July 13. (Before Messrs. J. Mair (chairman), P.M., and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, Js.P.) RENEWAL

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1887 · page 3

The application of Robert Moodie for the renewal of the license of the Beach Hotel, Burwood, was granted, there being no police objection…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 14. (Before the Chairman.) Booth License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1887 · page 6

MR. G. A. WOOD, of the Ship Inn, applied for a booth license for the Cricket Ground for that day. The P.M. granted the application,…

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Sale of Crystal Palace Hotel and Ground, Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 5

FROM advertisement it will be seen that Mr. Henry E. Stokes will sell by auction, to-day, at the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, the well-known hostelry at Waratah known as…

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Hotel Private Bars

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 6

THE Minister for Justice has before him a return, prepared by the Inspector-General of Police, with reference to the private bars connected with hotels in the city of Sydney…

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Colonial Wine Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 7

IN the loading article of the Sunday Times appears the following:— A few days ago there were ten applicants for colonial wine licenses…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 4. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J's.P.) Conditional Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1887 · page 7

MR. J. A. GORRICK applied, on behalf of Mr. Walter Sidney, for a conditional license for a house to be erected in Hunter and Scott streets, to be…

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Important Licensing Questions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1887 · page 3

A CASE of great importance to publicans came under the notice of the local Licensing Bench yesterday, during the hearing of Mr. Walter Sidney's…

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