A Publican's Year Book
We have before us the Licensed Victuallers' Year Book for 1879, and it is in some respects an instructive, if not an edifying publication. It is headed " Under the patronage of the…
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Trickett's Hotel
The large and somewhat pretentious building at the corner of Pitt and King Streets has been opened as an hotel by Mr. Trickett, the champion sculler of the Thames and Parramatta River. It is, to say the least, wanting in delicacy on his part -- some people might go…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TIGHT V. TIGHT. " There are degrees of tightness." -- John Davies. (Scene -- Wangenheim's Hotel)
Adolphe Fitzoggleton, Esq. (sol.): Well I'm blest! Here, I gave twenty (hic) five (hic) shillingsh for thish hat, and now (hic) itsh too (hic) tightsh for me (hic). Jack Lazylout: G-g-go along ! Why, I give three (hic) bob (hic) and a tanner, and (hic) here I am (hic) too tight for my (hic) hat…
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At the ordinary bi-weekly licensing meeting, held at the Central Police Court this morning, colonial wine licenses were granted to the following applicants:-Edward Shunker, Louis Extion, Wm…
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Sir,—Kindly permit [?] supplement your reporter's account of the business [?] yesterday by the Licensing Bench, at the Central Police Office. All mention of one case is omitted in his report I suppose it was smothered…
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The monthly licensing meeting was held yesterday at the Water Police Court, the magistrates on the Bench being Messrs. Penfold (chairman), Heading, Jenkins, Hourigan, Taylor, Solomon, Hunt, Blair, Marks, Edwards, Hogan,…
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The ordinary meeting of the Water Police Court Licensing Bench, was held yesterday. There were upwards of thirty magistrates in attendance. The only application that met…
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At the Water Police Court yesterday, Louie Wien, keeper of the honse known as the Cafe Wien, was summoned for committing a breach of the Publicans' Act, by permitting liqnor to be sold in his house…
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The following events took place in a village situated a few miles from a great inlaud town in New South Wales. There are not many bouses in the place altogether, but the only buildings…
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At the ordinary meeting of the Water Police Court Licencing Bench to-day, an application was made by Jean Boyer for a licence to retail colonial wine in the cellars of the Temple Court. Sub-inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Wine Licenses. "While Nero was fiddling. Rome was burning." To the Editor
SIR,—By 26 Vic., No. 16, Sec. 3, it is enacted that every person who shall have taken out a license as a dealer in wine, or who shall keep a shop or store for the sale of any goods or commodities other than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensed Victuallers' Ball
The annual festival of the members of the Licensed Victuallers' Society on behalf of theo benevolent find was held last night at the Masonic Hall. The ball was a plain and fancy dress one, the costumes of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hotels and Living in Sydney. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir.--With reference to a letter published in your valuable paper of the 19th instant, signed "Brush-up," I must say that I entirely agree with it, inasmuch as to cater for the public it is essential above all things…
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That handsome and novel designed hostelry recently erected by Mr. Meyers for Edward Trickett, too champion champion sculler of the world, at the corner of King and Pitt streets, was last night the scene of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Too Friendly by Half. (Scene: --HOTEL.)
Intrusive Stranger: "Ah, Mr. --how d'ye do? Why you don't seem to recollect me.'' Mr.--(indignantly): "No, indeed, I don't, and don't want to."Intrusive Stranger: "Don't you recollect the time when you were stopping at the --Hotel, and I was Boots there." Mr.--: "How dare you presume, you infern--"(the rest of Mr.--'s speech was lost upon the Intrusive Stranger who "went."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Licensing Scrambles.-A Victory and a Defeat
The "teetotal" and the "liberal" sections of the Sydney magistracy, were strongly represented at the Water Police. Court to-day, and backed up by a goodly array of legal talent and partizan sympathy…
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The licensing business at the Water Police Court yesterday morning was rendered unusually interesting by the large attendance of magistrates—there were thirty-two on the Bench—and the fact that two of the applications for…
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TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—Yesterday three men named John Longstreet, John Hayes, and Thomas Griffiths, were charged at the police court here with robbery from Pulton's Union Hotel,…
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