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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1903

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Fire in Sydney. the Hotel Australia

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

Considerable excitement was caused at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, on Friday morning by an outbreak of fire. A cabman standing at the top of Rowe-street, which…

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Municipal and Licensing Cases

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 3

About ten well-known city shopkeepers were to-day fined for permitting goods to be placed on the footway, and a number of hotel keepers were fined…

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Education and Licensing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 3

It was generally supposed, writes the London correspondent of the "S.M. Herald," that last year's legislative record would be chiefly determined by the passing…

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New Hotel

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 3

A license has been granted by the Temora Bench to Mr. Samuel Harrison for hotel at Ariah Park. The house is in' view of the requirements of the…

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Clergyman turns Publican. New York, Dec. 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1903 · page 6

The Rev. George Macdonald, the well-known Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, recently resigned his pastorate because certain members of the congregation objected to his…

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Special Licensing Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1903 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. W. Glarke, P.M., and Mr. J. J. Keane, J.P. RENEWAL James Gay was granted a renewal…

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Withdrawal From Occupation License. Narandera Land District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 3

For Travelling Stock and Camping— County Bourke, parish Bourke, 338½ acres. The Crown lands within the boundaries of measured portion P.W.P. 457. Included in…

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Fire at an Hotel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 2

A fire occurred on Tuesday evening last in a weather-board room at the rear of the Club House Hotel in Kincaid-street, Wagga. The outbreak was noticed at about 7.45…

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Local and General News. Fire at the Club House Hotel

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 2

An outbreak of fire occured carly on tuesday night on the premises of Mr. E. Seymour's Club House Hotel, Kincaid street, but fortunately was not a very…

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Withdrawal From Occupation License. Narandera Land District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 4

For Travelling Stock and Camping — County Bourke, parish Bourke, 338½ acres. The Crown lands within the boundaries of measured portion p.w.p. 457. Included in…

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Special Licensing Court. Monday, March 9. (Before Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., and L. A. Fosbery, L.M.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

The police proceeded against John Hillary, licensee of the Bullenbong Hotel, for having abandened his licensed premises at Bullenbong…

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Local and General News. Licensing Prosecution

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

John Hillary, formerly license of the Bullenbong Hotel, situate near the Rock, was proceeded against by the police, before Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M.,…

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Sale of Occupation Licenses

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 3

The Crown Land Agent at Tumbarumba will offer for sale by public auction at Tumbarumba, at noon on Tuesday, 24th March, the right of occupation licenses of the vacant…

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Suicide of Sir Hector Macdonald. Tragic End of a Great Career. He Shoots Himself in a Paris Hotel. London, March 26

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 2

An immense sensation hag been caused by the announcement that Major-Goneral Sir Hector Macdonald, who was last year appointed commander of the military forces in…

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Horse and Sulky Theft. Two Publicans Victimised

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 3

UPON the long list of crimes reported in this and neighbouring districts during the last few months comes one of the most cheeky and audacious that…

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Selling Without a License

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 3

Charlotte Davis, a widow, residing in Castlereagh-street, was fined £30 or four months Imprisonment for selling liquor without a license…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. London, April 3. Publichouse Licenses

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 2

Much excitement has been caused in New York by State legislation which increases the cost of licenses for publichouses to £240 a year each. It is believed that this…

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Licensing Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 2

At the Wagga Licensing Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M. and L. A. Fosbery, J.P., applications for renewals of publicans…

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New York Drink Licenses. London, Friday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 2

Considerable excitement has been caused in New York in consequence of the State legislation increasing the cost of public-house licenses to £240 per…

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