Special Licensing Sessions
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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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,…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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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