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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1905

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Besieged in a Hotel. Commissionaires Repel Intruders

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 4

In one of the leading hotels of Southport a remarkable blockade, recalling the siege of "Fort Chabrol," in Paris, commenced a month ago…

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Burglary. At the Castlereagh Hotel

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 3

A SOMEWHAT daring burglary was committed at Mrs. Fitzgerald's Castlereagh Hotel on Monday night. The thief gamed access to an empty shop in the row at buildings adjoining,…

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Hotel Burglary

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 2

Some time during Monday night or Tuesday morning a thief effected an entrance to Fitzgerald's Castlereagh Hotel, Talbragarstreet, and succeeded in getting away with…

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Licensing Court. Friday, July 7. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 2

Transfer of license (and billiard license) of the Club House Hotel from Frederick James Mulligan to George Danvers jnr., granted. Mr. Kelly for…

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Home Life in Hotels. a Growing Fashion

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 3

The fashion to growing among wealthy pople of living in Hotels — not in the public rooms allocated to the ordinary visitor, but in luxuriously-appointed…

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Pumping License

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

The report of the Local Land Board in respect to an inqury into the application of John Allison for a license for a pump, flume, and cutting a drain, village of…

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Occupation License

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

Occupation licenses have been granted for the vacant Crown lands hereunder specified:—Land District of Dubbo, No. 849, being part of the late resumed area of…

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Robbery From an Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

Some time ago Mrs. Fitzgerald, of the Castlereagh Hotel, Talbragar-street, had the misfortune to lose £20 which burglars stole from a drawer in the bedroom. It wil…

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Licensing Court Thursday, 13Th July 1905

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 3

Before Messrs E, May-Steers (chairman) T. M. Brennand and W. Parkius Licensing Magistrates…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 July 1905 · page 2

The Quarterly sitting of the Dubbo Licensing Court was held on Tuesday. A. license was granted to Sir. Burkinshaw for a house on the Cobborah Road. Mr. C…

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Home Life in Hotels. a Growing Fashion

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 5

The fashion Is growing among wealthy people of living in Hotels — not in the public rooms allocated to the ordinary visitor, but in luxuriously-appointed…

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Sale of an Hotel. The Macquarie View. Breach of Contract

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 3

The circumstances connected with the sale of the Macquarie View Hotel, Macquarie and Talbragar streets, were before his Honor Judge Docker in the District…

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Sale of a Dubbo Hotel. "Charley Thomas Sued for Breach of Contract

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 2

The circumstances connected with the sale of the Macquarie View Hotel, Macquarie and Talbragar streets, Dubbo, were before his Honor Judge…

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License Renewed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1905 · page 4

Messrs. Burton Smith and T. Bain, Licensing Magistrates, presided over the special Licensing Court held at the Court House on Tuesday, and renewals of licenses…

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Severe Thunderstorm in Town. Two Hotels Struck

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 August 1905 · page 2

ON Saturday about 8 p.m. a sudden and exceptionally severe thunderstorm lasting only about fifteen or twenty minutes broke over the town A thunderclap of exceptional violence heralded…

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Hotel Prices

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 7

English people have been so long accustomed to the monstrous prices of their own hotels that they have, perhaps, become hardened to them. But with the…

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New Licensing Bill

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 2

The main points of the new Licensing Bill introduced in the Assembly are as follows :—The number of hotels not to be increased. Local option vote…

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Special Licensing Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 2

A special Licensing Court was held at the Court House on Tuesday, when the Bench was occupied by Messrs. W. Burton Smith And T. Baird, L.M's…

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A Publican's Suicide. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 2

Walter Sydney Smith, a publican at Port Hacking, was found with his throat cut in one of the rooms of his hotel on Saturday. His wife died an hour previously…

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E. Nock, Commercial Hotel

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 September 1905 · page 1

"Ask and you shall receive," in true of this old, favorite Hostelry. Anyone troubled with the great Australian drought, whose…

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