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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1900

19 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Licensing Bench Proceedings

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 2

The Licensing Bunch pat on Wednesday. All its members were present, viz, Dr. S. L. Richardson, Mr. G. F. De Salis, and Mr. W. Beatty. The following applications…

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Licensing Court. Wednesday January 10Th. (Before Dr Richardson, L.M., and Messrs. G. DeSalis and W. Beatty)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

Alfred .Alex Crowe applied for a colonial wine license for the old Commercial Hotel, Gundaroo. Mr Garraway for applicant, Mr Crowe deposed that there was no place…

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Licensing Court. Wednesday January 10Th. (Before Dr Richardson, L M., and Messrs. G. DeSalis and W. Beatty)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

Alfred Alex Crowe applied for a colonial wine license for the old Commercial Hotel, Gundaroo. Mr Garraway for applicant, Mr Crowe deposed that there was no place…

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Braidwood Licensing Court. MONDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. W. J. Chapman, J.p.) Objection to License

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 2

An objection was lodged by the Sub-Inspector to the renewal of the license of the Post Office Hotel, Jembaicumbene, on the following grounds:—(1) That the premises do not provide the minimum…

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At a Hotel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 2

Guest (to waiter): "I can't eat this soup!" Waiter takes it away and brings another kind of soup…

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Rags and Bones. a Night in a Tramp's Hotel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 1

In the summer the vagrant passes his existence loafing in the sunshine. In the winter he passes his time in a steady journey from one extremity of the…

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Licensing Court, [Before the P.M. and Mr. W. J. Banu.]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1900 · page 2

An application for transfer of the license of the Commercial Hotel, Nerriga, from Thos. O’Brien to E. R, Relfe, jr., was made The granting of t he license was opposed on…

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Braidwood Licensing Court. Monday, March 26. (Before J. McKensey, Esq.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 March 1900 · page 2

Application was made by Thomas O'Brien, licensee of the Commercial Hotel at Nerriga, for the transfer of his license to E. R. Rolfe, junr. Mr. Fell appeared for the parties…

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Hotel Inspection

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 2

Complaints have been made from time to [?] that the liquors sold in many hotels are adulterated and impure. The matter of investigation has been taken in hand by Mr…

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Destructive Fire at Captain's Flat. Lake George Hotel Burnt Down

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

MR. J. STILL O'HARA brought news into Queanbeyan on Monday morning of the total destruction by fire of Mr. M. W. Goggin's Lake George Hotel, with all its…

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Braidwood Licensing Court. Monday June 11. (Before the P.M. and VV. J. Chapman, Esq.) License Application

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 2

The application of James Turnbull for the renewal of his license for the Commercial Hotel, adjourned from the previous Monday, was heard. Mr. Fell appeared for applicant…

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Police Court. Monday, July 9. [Before the Police Magistrate.]BREACH of Licensing Act

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

E. J. Henry was charged with keeping his licensed premises open after hours on 20th June. Mr. L. Levy appeared for defendant, who…

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Town Topics. the Licensing Bench

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 July 1900 · page 2

ISN'T it time we had a change in the personnel of the Queanbeyan Licensing Bench ? For a long time past the public convenience -- that is, the…

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A Comfortable Hotel

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 5
Also in The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate

"Please, sir," said the bell boy to a Texas hotel manager, " No. 40 says there ain't no towel in his room." " Tell him to use one of the window…

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A Licensed Swindler

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 1

A Washington attorney is rather noted for the facility with which he forgets financial obligations. He has owned a certain g[?]cer £8 for a year or two. The other day the merchant…

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Braidwood Licensing Court. THURSDAY. (Before Messrs. J. McKensey and W. J. Chapman.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

A renewal was granted to Thomas Pooley of the license of the Royal Hotel, Braidwood, on condition that some back rooms which had been objected to by the police were put in repair…

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A Haunted Hotel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 October 1900 · page 4

A series of remarkable incidents, which are popularly supposed to be due to supernatural causes, have occurred recently at a Brixton hotel. The most extraordinary of…

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Licensing Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 November 1900 · page 2

THERE was a goodly array of auctioneers present at the Court this morning to obtain renewals of their licenses. The magistrates in attendance were Messrs. J. J…

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