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Hotels & licensing, 1853

83 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 5

The Gold License

Empire · Wednesday 17 August 1853 · page 2

IT is very dishoartoning to considor that a few persons, constituting a Select Committee, should be quietly suffered to retard, for the period of their own pleasure or…

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The Gold License Fee

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 August 1853 · page 9

OF all the urgent and important matters which have been brought under the notice of the Legislative Council during the present session, not one has been either more urgent or more important…

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Council Paper. Gold License Fee

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 August 1853 · page 5

COPY of a despatch from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, to His Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy, Melbourne, 1st August, 1853. SIR. -- Having observed that a proposal has been made in the…

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License to Dig Gold. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 August 1853 · page 8

GENTLEMEN,—I trust you will not object to a few hints, through your valuable columns, which may be made applicable to the present new gold regulations now in formation,…

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Hotel Building

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 August 1853 · page 5

We have often urged upon capitalists the expediency of building vast hotels, to be divided into suites of apartments for families, affording, as could easily be done…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1853 · page 2

PRESENT.—Alderman Allen, in the chair; Mr. Hill, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Wingate, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Hargraves, Mr. Deloitte, Mr. Darley, the Police Magistrate, the Superintendent of…

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Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1853 · page 5

THE Justices met, pursuant to adjournment. There were present, Alderman Allen (in the chair), Mr. Hill, Mr. Dowling, Mr. Deloitte, Mr. Wingate, Mr. T. W. Campbell, and Mr…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting. Tuesday, September 6

Empire · Friday 9 September 1853 · page 3

Present: Alderman Allen (in the chair), Mr. Hill, Mr. Thornton, Captain Wyngate, Mr. C. H. Chambers, Mr. Hargraves, Mr. Deloitte, Captain Darley, the Police Magistrate, the Superintendent…

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Governor La Trobe and the Gold License

Empire · Monday 12 September 1853 · page 2

THE singular conduct of Governor La Trebe, we hope, will have the effect of bringing the deliberations of our Select Committee upon the Gold Licenses…

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License of the Bar. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 September 1853 · page 5

GENTLEMEN,—I am very unwilling to intrude myself into public notice, and equally so to comment on any proceedings of members of the Bar. But that professional license of the tongue, which…

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Bell's Life in Sydney Saturday, September 17, 1853. The Gold License Fee

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 September 1853 · page 2

THE relinquishment of the license fee by the Government of Victoria—a course forced upon it by the determined, uncompromising stand made by the Bendigo…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, September 19, 1853. 'Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' the License Fee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 September 1853 · page 4

IT is generally understood that the Select Committee on the Gold Fields have agreed to recommend the reduction of the license fee to ten shillings a month…

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Gold Digging License Fee

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 September 1853 · page 8

IF in the honest discharge of our public duty, we have been sometimes obliged to censure the acts and proceedings of the Legislative Council, we did so always with…

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Public Dinner at the Exchange Hotel

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 October 1853 · page 10

We are obliged, for want of apace, to defer till our next publication, an account of the great Festive Dinner given to the MEMBERS OF COUNCIL who voted on the 2nd of September against the…

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Council, Papers. Proposed Substitution of Rent for License on Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 October 1853 · page 5

COPY of a Letter from Mr. Gold Commissioner GREEN to the COLONIAL SECRETARY. Gold Commissioner's Office, Bathurst, 2nd September, 1853…

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Publicans' Lamps. (To the Editor of the Empire.)

Empire · Monday 14 November 1853 · page 2

SIR—By this morning's H[?]ald I perceive that there were several of the licensed publicans fined for allowing their lights to go out on the night between the 5th and 6th of the present month. And…

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The Gold License Fee in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 December 1853 · page 4

THE wisdom of the course adopted by our Government in refusing to abolish the gold license fee, under the threat that the neighbouring colony of Victoria was…

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Publicans' Licenses

Empire · Wednesday 7 December 1853 · page 3

Twelve "o'clock yesterday, (Tuesday,) being appointed for the consideration of applications for General and transfer of Publicans' Licenses, the following Magistrates took their seats on the…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 December 1853 · page 4

THE quarterly meeting under the provisions of the Publican's Licensing Act was held yesterday. The following magistrates were present:—Alderman Allen ([?] the chai[?]), Mr…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 December 1853 · page 5

THE Session sat yesterday pursuant to adjournment. Present—Alderman Allen (Chairman), Mr. Hill, Mr. Dowling, Mr. Darley, Mr. Hargiaves, Mr. Daniels, Mr. West, and…

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