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Hotels & licensing, 1870

38 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

New South Wales Licensed Victuallers' Asspciation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 July 1870 · page 3

THE annual meeting of this Association was held at Camb's Hotel, King-street, yesterday evening. The attendance was numerous. Mr. John Perry (the chairman of the association)presided…

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New South Wales Licensed Victuallers' Association

Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 14

The annual meeting of this Association was bold at Camb's Hotel, King-street, on Wednesday evening. The attendance was numerous. Mr. John Perry (the chairman of the association) presided…

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The Licensed Victuallers' Association

Sydney Punch · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 3

MR. PUNCH notices with extreme pleasure that the Licensed Victuallers, at their annual meeting last week, in their Report, entered very fully into the subject of the increased number of licensed public-houses. They remark that there are too many licensed houses, and…

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The Licensing System

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 8

IN anticipation of the efforts avowedly intended to be made in the coming Session of Parliament for legislative revision of the present licensing system, the Licensed…

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Great Fire at Wagga Wagga. Destruction of the Criterion Hotel

Evening News · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 3

THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser, of Wednesday last, reports the following particulars of the recent fire in that town:- We regret to hare to record the most destructive…

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Markets—Spirits, Wines, Beer, &c. (Compiled expressly for information of thE Licensed. Victuallers.) Wholesulo prices in Bond

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 3

Brandy.—Martell's or Henncssy's 6s 3d to 7s per gal. Brandy.—in cae, Battle Axe, 28s 6d to 30s, Martells, Brandy.—25s. 27s per gal. Brandy.—Other brands according to quality…

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Great Fire at Wagga Wagga.— Destruction of the Criterion Hotel

Empire · Monday 1 August 1870 · page 2

THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser, of Wednesday last, reports the following particulars of the recent fire in that town:— We regret to have to record the most destructive…

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Markets—Spirits, Wines, Beer, &c. (Compiled expressly for information of the Licensed Victuallers.) Wholesale prices in Bond

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 3

Brandy.—Martell's or Henneasy's 6s 3d to 7s per gal. " in case, Battle Axe, 28s 6d to 30s, Martolls, 25s to 27s per gal. " Other brands according to quality…

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Great Fire at Wagga Wagga.— Destruction of the Criterion Hotel

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 22

THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser, of Wednesday last, reports the following particulars of the recent firo in that town:— We regret to have to record the most destructive…

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The Licensed Publicans

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 3

It does not require a very large amount of prophetic power to divine the issue of the coming "Permissive" struggle in the Legislative Assembly; because the extreme lengths to which advocates for adopting American…

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The Licensing Act

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 4

The decision unanimously arrived at by the Bench of fourteen [?] magistrates at the Central Police Court on Tuesday week last in[?] reference to the transfer of the license of a public-house at the [?] corner of Park and Elizabeth streets from the present holder to [?]…

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Mrs. Perkins on Things in General. Royal Hotel, Sydney, September 15, 1870

Sydney Punch · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 3

DEAR JEMIMA,--I take my pen according to promise, to tell you of my safe arrival in Sydney, and a mercy it is, for such a journey, never, never could I have believed; what with hailstones and snowdrifts and being blown away in a whirlwind, and stuck in a bog and…

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The Perils of Publicans

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 3

TAYLOR V. SULLIVAN.—This oft-heard, and as often dismissed case, again occupied Magisterial attention, at the Central Police Court, on Monday, before Mesara Pearce and Vickory, who, having visited the Prince of…

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The Licensing System

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 7

THERE are some defects in the licensing system so manifest that it is very strange they have been suffered to exist so long. Now that Parliament is sitting, with a "Permissive Bill" under…

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The Tasmanian Licensing Act Amendment Bill. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 3

SIR, — So many movements are taking place in these colonies at the present time respecting the liquor traffic, on which the general public can be but imperfectly informed, that perhaps you may not think it out of place to afford me…

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The Permissive Bill and the Present Holders of Publicans' Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 October 1870 · page 2

SIR,—The Permissive Bill having passed the second reading—a stage I never thought it would have reached in its present impracticable and very objectionable shape—I trust you may find room in your columns for a few…

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The Lay of the Publican

Sydney Punch · Saturday 12 November 1870 · page 1

Oh ! here's a go, by gum, No doctored gin or rum, Shall we, poor publicans, be able now to vend; This here Permissive Bill,…

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Licensed Taps Are Men-traps! (To the Edito of the Potestant Standad.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 19 November 1870 · page 3

SIR,--Mr. Wearene's Bill to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors, is one regarded not less for the welfare of the State, than for the exigencies of society--wisdoms echo are heard for it at…

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