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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1887

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Licensing Absurdities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 4

IT is about time that the laws regulating the drink trade were stripped of some of their fetichism and fanaticism. We have in New South Wales a…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Applications Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 6

THE application of Mrs. Annie Golding of the Albert Victor Hotel, Burwood, for a music and dancing license for Friday, August 12th, was granted…

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The "Centennial" Hotel License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 5

MR. WEALE, late secretary of the L. V. Association of New South Wales, writes:—"Of course the quarterly meeting point is fatal, but in the Sydney reports nothing is…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, 25Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., Chairman, and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, Js.P.) No Cigar License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 August 1887 · page 3

MISS ALICE MARY MONKS was summoned by Constable Dare for selling a cigar without having first obtained a license…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. James Mair.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 6

THE following transfers were granted, there being no police objection:—Daniel A. Friend, Galatea Hotel, to John J. Robertson ; Edward…

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Licensed Victuallers' Meeting. The Price of Drink

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 5

A SPECIAL, general meeting of the Great Northern Licensed Victuallers' Association was held yesterday afternoon in Latham's Hall, Wolfe-street. There were some 25…

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Another Hotel Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 5

ANOTHER of the hotels in the city was visited by a thief during the small hours of yesterday morning, and some jewellery and money abstracted. It appears that two gentlemen…

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Licensed Victuallers' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 6

AN adjourned meeting of the licensed victuallers was held yesterday forenoon at Latham's Hall, Wolfe-street. The President (Mr. Geo. Lindsay) occupied…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, September 22Nd. (Before the Chairman, Mr. Mair, P.m.) Music and Dancing License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 3

A music and dancing license for the 23rd instant was granted to Mr. David Thomas, of the Bricklayers' Arms Hotel, Glebe, upon the occasion of the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Tuesday, Sept. 27Th, 1887. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.sP.) Charge of Sunday Selling Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 September 1887 · page 5

MR. HENRY, SIMPSON, licensee of the Northumberland Hotel, Hunter-street, was summoned for keeping his licensed premises open on Sunday, September…

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Inquest at the Imperial Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1887 · page 6

AN inquest was held at Hawkens' Imperial Hotel, Darby-street, on Thursday evening, by the District Coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., on the body of a woman named Annie…

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Sale of the Terminus Hotel Effects

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 October 1887 · page 4

WE direct public attention to the very important sale to be conducted on Monday and Tuesday next by Messrs. J. Creer and Son. On those days, under instructions from Mr…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, October 6. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, Js.P.) Alleged Sly Grog-selling

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

Joy Hee, a Chinaman, was charged with selling a bottle of gin on the 25th ultimo, he not being licensed for the purpose…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Friday, October 7. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.'sP.) Alleged Sly-grog Selling. (Part heard.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 2

JOY HER was charged, on remand from the previous day, with having sold a bottle of gin on the 25th ult., without holding a publican's license…

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Stealing Freetrade Thunder. Square and Compass Hotel, 706, George-street, South, Sydney, Oct. 6, 1887. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Will you do me the justice in one of your early issues to notice the following:— My attention has been called to three serial articles which appeared in one of your…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, 13Th October. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair and Messrs. W. K. Lochhead, and Dr. Morgan, Licensing Magistrates.) Conditional Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 October 1887 · page 5

GEORGE LENNON applied for the confirmation of a conditional license, granted some time since for a premises situated at Burwood…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Friday, October 14, 1887. (Before the P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.p.) Sly-grog Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 8

WONG LONG SUN was charged by Sub-inspector Lynch with selling liquor, to wit, brandy, to two of his countrymen, without holding a license, on the 26th ultimo…

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The Prince, the Pendant, and the Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 8

THE people of the suburb of Norwood (Eng.) are amusing themselves with a story which has been told of a prince, a pondant, and a publican. The…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Monday. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead.) Alleged Sly Grog Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 4

WONG LOCK SUN, on remand from the 14th instant, was charged with sly grog selling— to wit, a bottle of brandy—to one George Young, on Monday, September 26th, at the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Tuesday, October 17Th. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead, J.p.) Alleged Sly Grog Selling (Part Heard.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 6

WONG LOCK SUN was charged, on remand from Monday, with sly grog selling. Sub-inspector Lynch prosecuted,…

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