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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1889

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Hotel Robbery at Tamworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Monday Night.—A man named John Hamilton was before the local police court this morning charged with breaking into a room at the back of the Royal…

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License Fees on Omnibuses. a Municipal "T[?]"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1889 · page 3

THE Carrington Council decided some time ago that they were entitled to derive benefit from the license fees charged by the omnibuses plying between that municipality and…

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Another Strange Departure. a Well-known Publican to Be Arrested. Alleged to have Stolen £517

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1889 · page 4

A WARRANT for the arrest of Herbert Gardner, the late licensee of the Market Wharf Inn, Market-street, on a charge of stealing the sum of £517 belonging to a co-partner…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. W. H. Shaw and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 2

Uriah Broome, licenses of the Royal Hotel, Wickham, was charged by Sub-In-specter Lynch with having kept his licensed premises open for the sale of liquor on…

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Alleged Appropriation by an Ex-publican. Gardner Arrested in Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 5

INFORMATION was received at the Newcastle Police Station yesterday that Herbert Gardner, late licensee of the Market Wharf Inn, and for whose arrest on a charge of…

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Tasmania. Licensing Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 6

The licensed victuallers throughout the colony are organised to oppose the Licensing Bill. The debate on the second reading commences on Tuesday next, and it…

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Waratah Licensing Court. Saturday, August 17Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Sunday-selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 5

JOHN DODD pleaded guilty to selling liquor in his licensed premises, Tattersall's Hotel, Plattsburg, on Sunday, the 11th inst. The defendant appeared in court in a groggy…

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Licensed Vehicles Protective Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 8

A PRELIMINARY meeting of 'bus, cab, and van proprietors and drivers was held at Moroney's Hotel last night, for the purpose of forming a union. Mr. W. Wells…

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An Escaped Lioness in an Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1889 · page 8

AN exciting scene was witnessed at Llandrindod Wells, near Cardiff, recently. A young lioness escaped from Wombwell's menagerie, and mape its way to the Bridge…

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Waratah Licensing Court. Wednesday, August 21St. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Selling Liquor After Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 5

SQUIRE SMITH, licenses of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Lambton, was charged with selling liquor on the night of the 16th inst at seventeen minutes past 11 o'clock…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 22. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., Martin, J. P., and Shaw, J.P.) Delaying Admittance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 August 1889 · page 3

ELIZABETH WITHAM, licenses of the London Tavern, was charged with wilfully delaying the admittance of the police to the premises known as the London Tavern on August…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1889 · page 6

WILIAM BEVERIDGE was charged by Sub-inspector Lynch with having kept his licensed premises at Burwood, known as the Racecourse Inn, open for the sale of liquor on…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, September 11. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Transfer of License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 September 1889 · page 8

AN application for the transfer of the publican's license of the Victoria Hotel, Wallsend, from James Sneddon to Mrs. Hancock, was granted…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, Sept. 12. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.p.) the Clarendon Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 September 1889 · page 3

JOSEPH BLACKER applied to transfer the Clarendon Hotel to Edward Sara. Mr. Sparke appeared for Edward Sara. There were no police objections to the…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, September 26. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M. and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 6

THE application for the transfer of the license of the Clarendon Hotel from Joseph Blacker to Edward Sara, was again brought before the Court…

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Licensed Vehicles Protective Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 8

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the members of the newly-formed Licensed Vehicle Owners' and Drivers' Union, was held in Moroney's assembly rooms last evening. Mr…

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Waratah Licensing Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J.p.) Booth Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1889 · page 5

BOOTH licenses, to be used at the Wallsend Races on the 5th inst., were granted to Simpson Hall and Alexander Froome, publicans, of Plattsburg…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, October 3. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., Ludlow, Shaw, and Martin, Js.P.) Transfer of a License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 2

THE adjourned hearing of the application of Joseph Blacker to transfer the license of the Clarendon Hotel, Hunter-street, to Edwin Sara. Mr. Sparke represented the…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. (Before Mr. George Martin and Mr. W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) Renewals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 6

RENEWALS of licenses were granted in the following cases, the police having no objection:—George Lennon, Grand Primo Hotel, Merewether; William Johnson, Exchange…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Thursday, October 17, 1889 (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Application for New House

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 7

IN regard to the application of David. Williams. for a license at Adamstown, the request was withdrawn, as the local option vote was against an increase of public houses. The…

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