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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1851

44 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3

Form Referred To.—gold License

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 9

No. 1851. The bearer having paid to me the sum of one pound ten shillings on account of the territorial revenue, I hereby license him to dig,…

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Licenses to Dig and Search for Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 9

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 23rd May, 1851.—With reference to the Proclamation issued on the 22nd May, instant, declaring the rights of the Crown in respect to gold found in its natural place…

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News from the Diggins. Issue of Licenses

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 2

The officers appointed, by Government for the issue of licenses, have at length departed for the diggings to commence their very responsible duties. That they will have some difficulty in carrying out the regulations of the Executive wo are fully prepared to…

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Issue of Licenses. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 June 1851 · page 3

Contrary to general expectation, we learn by the latest intelligence from the diggings that the issue of licenses is proceeding peaceably, and without the slightest show…

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News from the Diggings. Issue of Licenses

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Wednesday 11 June 1851 · page 2

Contrary to general expectation, we learn by the latest intelligence from the diggings that the issue of licenses is proceeding peaceably, and without the slightest show of opposition. In common with many other friends of peace and order, we confess…

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Issue of Licenses

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 14 June 1851 · page 1

Contrary to general expectation, we learn by the latest intelligence from the diggings that the issue of licenses is proceeding peaceably, and without the slightest show of opposition. In…

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Publicans' Night Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 July 1851 · page 2

WE publish below, for general information, a list of those publicans to whom night licenses have been granted: John Malcom, Adelphi Hotel, York-street…

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Publican's Night Licences Granted

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 July 1851 · page 2

John Malcom, Adelphi Hotel, York-st Matthew Mullaney, Fortune of War, Broughamplace John Mullen, William the Fourth, Pill-st…

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Licenses for July

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 July 1851 · page 1

Placards containing the following notice have been posted on the trees about the Ophir Diggings. NOTICE.—All persons desirous of digging for…

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Crown Lands Beyond the Settled Districts. (From the Government Gazette.) Timber Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 August 1851 · page 2

CROWN Lands Office, Sydney, July 31, 1851.— The annexed return, showing the number of licenses to cut timber on Crown Lands beyond the settled districts, issued in accordance with…

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Crown Lands Beyond the Settled Districts. (From Friday's Government Gazette.) Timber Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 2

THE annexed is a Supplementary Return of Licenses to cut timber on Crown Lands beyond the Settled Districts, issued during the halfyear ended 30th June last, in accordance…

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Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 September 1851 · page 2

THE quarterly meeting of Justices, to take into consideration applications made under the provisions of the Publicans' Licensing Act, was held at the Police Office, yesterday, after…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting

Empire · Wednesday 3 September 1851 · page 2

Yesterday, after the cases on the police register were disposed of a Quarterly Licensing Meeting was held to take into consideration soveral applications for publicans' general licenses, and also…

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Licensing Meeting

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 4

The quarterly meeting of Justices, to take into consideration applications made under the provisions of the Publicans Licensing. Act, was held at the Police Office, on Tuesday; after the ordinary business of the day had been disposed of Present-- The Right…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, September 29, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Gold Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 September 1851 · page 2

THE sudden discovery of our extensive auriferous regions, and the rapid influx of population thither, bent on digging for gold, took the Government by surprise,…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, October 4, 1851. The Gold Licenses

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 4 October 1851 · page 2

"And to save still further trouble the digger should be compelled to wear his license as a badge on his breast, so that after the first week when the licenses were issued, the Commissioner…

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Licensed Immorality."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 October 1851 · page 8

AN incident that occurred in our schoolboy days comes fresh to the mind illustrative of licensed "immorality." On reading over in class an old treatise on the…

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Recent Gold Regulations. Applicants shall bind themselves to employ not less than forty persons, &c., and take out licenses for every person so employed. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—We need not visit foreign countries to witness the mischievous interference of Governments with private enterprise, for short as has been the history of our Southern…

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Crown Lands. (From yesterdays Government Gazette.) Commencement of Pastoral Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 October 1851 · page 4

COLONLU, Secretary's Office, Sydney, October 28th, 1851.—His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to establish the…

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The Sister of Charity. Written After Meeting a Sister of Charity in the Hotel Dieu

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 4

The beautiful order of the Scours de la Charite, was founded by that truly Christian priest, Vincent St. Paul, in the year 1629, to whom France is indebted for so many of its noblest charities…

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