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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1878

97 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5

Letters to the Editor. Applicants for Licenses

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 3

S[?],—I was in Court on Wednesday, and I was surprised to hear one of the. Bench say that licenses could not be granted to hawkers, etc., unless they and their sureties…

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Tuesday, January 8. (Before Messrs McRae, Payten, Rowling, Taylor, Gibbons, Miller, and Crawford, J’s. P.) Publicans’ Licenses

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1878 · page 3

John Stahl applied for a license for a new hotel at [?]ookwood, to be called the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr S. Billyard appeared in support of the application. in favour of…

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Poetical License. "O Trumpery! O Moses!"

Sydney Punch · Saturday 12 January 1878 · page 2

DEAR PUNCH,--I am not a poet myself. I never wrote a line of poetry in my life; I never read much of it; and, moreover, I have always considered that what somebody says about "Great wit to madness nearly is allied," is pretty near the truth, when the wit…

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News of the Day. Robbery at Zeplin's Hotel

Evening News · Saturday 19 January 1878 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon between 6 and 8 o'clock, in the absence of Mr. Zeplin, some one or more persons, who, from the circumstances, appear to have been well acquainted with the premises, and the ways…

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Braidwood Turf Club Races. the Publicans' Purse, l½ mile

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 34

Mr. W. B, Brown's b g Premier, aged, 8st 101b Messrs. E. and W. Royd's b g Reckless, 5 yrs, 8st 5lb Mr. Miller's gr g Forester, aged, 8st 21b Warn's b h Buckingham, 6 yrs, 8st…

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Licensing Laws

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 5

The hackneyed phrase that it is impossible to make men sober by act of parliament may contain a certain amount of truth, but it is also true that laws may be so framed and administered…

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Liquor License Amendment Association

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1878 · page 2

This forenoon a large and influential deputation from the Liquor License Amendment Association, waited upon the Premier of New South Wales (the Hon. J. S. Farnell) to lay before him the principles…

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Liquor Licensing Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1878 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning, a deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen—Sir Alfred Stephen, Rev. Drs. Steel, [?]nd Z. Barry; Rev. Messrs. Burnier, Piddington, J. Dow[?] E. Robinson, R. R. Eva (Queensland), C. Stead, Forsait) [?]…

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Liquor Licensing Act and the Proposed Distillation Bill. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1878 · page 4

SIR,—I see by your paper of to-day that a most influential deputation of gentlemen waited on the Premier " to urge him to amend the liquor licensing law," and Mr. Farnell promised to attend to their wishes, &c…

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Liquor License Amendment Association

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 March 1878 · page 14

On Monday a large and influential deputation from the Liquor License Amendment Association, waited upon the Premier of New South Wales (the Hon. J. S. Farnell) to lay before him the principles…

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Bill to Amend the Licensing System

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1878 · page 5

THE following is the text, minus the preamble, of a bill intrcduced by Mr. John Davies into the Assembly last night, and read c. first time, to amend the " Sale of Liquors Licensing Act of 1862," and to make provision for the…

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The Liquor License Amendment Act, to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1878 · page 5

SIR,—Now that Mr. John Davies's measure is before the Assembly,and as you have for the. past eighteen months given every prominence to the views of the Liquor License Amendment Assoeciation, perhaps you will in the interests…

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The License of Counsel

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 304

ON Tuesday Mr. WALTER COOPER was, by permission, heard at the bar of the House as counsel upon, matters connected with the passing of Beer's Disabilities Bill. In the…

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Crown and Anchor Hotel

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 6

Perhaps no new venture, projected and worked out in Sydney during the last, few years, has been so conspicuous a success as that which the public have long before this seen developed by Mr. C.J. Roberts in connection with the Crown…

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The Licensing Bill

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 4

WE are never willing to discourage good and earnest men in their efforts to ameliorate the condition of their fellows, and to remove the evils that infest…

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Monday, March 25 (Before Messrs McRae, Taylor and St[?],J’s. P.) Hawker’s License

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 6

The Bench granted a hawker’s license to Charles Barber on the usual sureties being submitted and approved of. PROTECTION…

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The Alleged Case of Arson at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly Beach. Committal of the Proprietress and Her Barman

Evening News · Friday 12 April 1878 · page 3

THE City Coroner, yesterday afternoon after a three days hearing concluded the inquest at Lambourne's Hotel Manly Beach, respecting the circumstances attending the fire at Mrs. Sargeant's Cla[?] Hotel Manly which occurred…

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The Late Fire at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly Beach. Verdict of Arson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 April 1878 · page 5

THE inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire which broke out between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning of the 3rd instant, at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly, terminated yesterday afternoon, when, as will be seen below, the jury…

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The Alleged Case of Arson at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly Beach. Committal of the Proprietress and Her Barman

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 30

THE City Coroner, on Thursday, April 11, after a three days hearing, concluded the inquest, at Lambourne's Hotel, Manly Beach, respecting the circumstances attending the fire at Mrs. Sargeant's Clarendon Hotel, Manly, which occurred…

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Licenses Refused—Theatrical News. &c

Evening News · Tuesday 7 May 1878 · page 2

BRISBANE , Monday.—A second proclamation has been issued by the Government, to the effect that no publicans' licenses will be granted till the next annual meeting, excepting those that have been…

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