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Hotels & licensing, 1849

37 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Special Licensing Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 January 1849 · page 2

A MEETING of the magistrates for the purpose of holding at Special Licensing Sessions was called at the Police Office on Saturday. The proceedings at the late Sessions cannot…

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Publicans' Licenses.--the Late Meetings of Magistrates

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 January 1849 · page 6

WE should not have again adverted to this subject, hut that we deem it one of such vast public importance that it cannot be too much or too freely discussed. The thirteen or fourteen publicans, whose licenses were…

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Original Correspondence. [As the People's Advocate our columns will be open to all parties, but we by no means identify ourselves with the opinions of our correspondents.] Annual Licensing Meeting. To the Editor of the People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 January 1849 · page 2

SIR,--Since it has now become pretty well known that our present Right Worshipful the Mayor of the City of Sydney, Edward Flood, Esq., at the two recent meetings of Magistrates, held at the City Police Court, for the purpose of granting Licenses to applicants,…

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The Mayor and the Late Licensing Meeeting of Petty Sessions. (To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1849 · page 2

GENTLEMEN.—Now that the interests.Which were at stake during the dispute between the Mayor and some of the Magistrates on the late licensing meeting or Petty Seasions, have been…

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Original Correspondence. Imposition on Publicans. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 February 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Will you have the kindness to inform me, through the medium of your valuable paper, what I am to do when "gents" call at my house, take a good lunch, bottle of ale, &c., &c,…

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A Word on Sweeps and Licensed Victuallers

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 March 1849 · page 1

Time was when licensed victuallers—they were called "bonifaces"—were looked upon as a set of stupid, fat-headed dolts—men who could only penetrate to the depth of a pot of porter,…

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Licensing Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1849 · page 3

A MEETING of the magistrates was called yesterday at the Police Office, for the purpose of taking into consideration fourteen applications made for transfers of three for special,…

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Disputes Amongst Licensed Graziers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1849 · page 2

BY a gentleman who has just come from the far interior with a flock of fat wedders our attention has been called to certain bulletins lately issued from the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, April 24, 1849. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Licensing Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1849 · page 2

THE Sydney magistrates are now engaged in inspecting the houses of the applicants for public-house license, and we trust that more attention will be paid than…

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The Licensed Victuallers

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 12 May 1849 · page 2

THE Committee of the Licensed Victuallers' Society has preprared the following petition to His Excellency the Governor, on a subject which is certainly a great grievance to them…

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The Licensing System

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 12 May 1849 · page 6

THERE seems abundant reason to conclude that the whole structure of our moral society, which our ecclesiastical and legislative architects have been for some time so diligent in rearing, is at present being…

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Licensing System. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 May 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Loud complaints assailing my ears in every quarter of the city against the wholesale system of granting public-house licenses by the magistrates, notwithstanding…

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Crown Lands Beyond the Settled Districts. (From the Government Gazette) Renewal of Pasturage Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1849 · page 3

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 29th May, 1840.—His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, directs it to be notified, for general…

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Domestic Intelligence. Licensed Victuallers

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 June 1849 · page 3

THE following reply has been received to the Petition of the Licensed Victuallers, which we published a week or two ago: -- Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 13th June, 1849…

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The Arbitrary Licensing System

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 June 1849 · page 1

THE licensed victuallers of this country are, unquestionably, a hardly-treated class. They are subject to more stringent laws, burdened with heavier taxation, compelled to undergo greater…

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Publicans Licensing Bill. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Perceiving from a report of the debates in the Legislative Council on Wednesday last, that the "Publicans' Licensing Bill" is to be read a second time on Wednesday next,…

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The Publicans' Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 July 1849 · page 2
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

THE Licensed Victuallers, the Press, the Council, and the public, have reason to complain of the precipitancy with which this measure has been pressed to a second…

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The Licensing Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1849 · page 3

THE following petition from the Sydney publicans, which is to be presented to the Legislative Council to-day, has been handed to us for publication…

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Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, July l8, 1849. Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Publicans' Amendment Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1849 · page 2

WE have looked carefully through this Bill, and have cursorily compared it with the existing Act, 2 Vic., No. l8. So far as we have at present discovered, the only…

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