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378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 19
On Monday night, just as the Post Office clock was striking 11, and whilst the landlord of the City Bank Hotel in Pitt-stroct was closing Ms premises, several men, determined on having a drink, rushed into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Davies's recent attack on the publicans at Newcastle has given rise to much discussion, and it is the subject for general comment that he should take his seat on the Licensing Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—The letter of Mr. G. H. Reid, M.L.A., upon the above in your issue of this morning; infers that the appointment will not meet with public confidence and approval, and that the lack of any prominent expression…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Davies's inflammatory speech at the Protestant Hall here the other night, in which he denounced the publicans wholesale, and put forth his opinion that none of them could claim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—1 beg to differ entirely from the clear inferences in Mr. G. H. Keid's letter in your to-day's issue, that no temperance man should be appointed to any Licensing Bench. I fail to see that, in a free State like ours, any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very largely attended meeting was held yesterday evening at the Masonic Hall, York-street, for the purpose of considering the recent appointment of Mr. John Davies, M.L.A., to the Metropolitan Licensing Bench. The hall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LAST night a public meeting was held at the Masonic Hall to protest against the appointment of Mr. John Davies to the licensing Bench. The hall as densely crowded, and numbers were unable to obtain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held, at, the Masonic Hall last evening to protest against the .appointment of Mr. John Davies to the Licensing Bench. The hall was crowded in every part, and large numbers were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named George Sampson was given in charge of detective Wigs on Monday by Thomas Curran, proprietor of Pfahlert's Hotel. Wynyard Square, on a charge of stealing £11. Whon taken into custody he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Mr. G. H. Reid, when repeating last night the objection that Mr. John Davies was a temperance man, backed it up by quoting the words of what he termed the Good Templars' oath, and by saying that "a man who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I have noticed from recent newspaper reports that it has been the practice of the different Licensing Benches throughout the colony, in dealing with applications in connection with houses previously licensed under the old Act,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—In reply to the letter of the Rev. F. B. Boyce, I have to state that I have no Dersonal knowledge of the matter to which he alludes, and that my statement of the nature of the "Geod Templars" pledge, was taken from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,-- In reference to the above it is dimcuit, notwithstanding the frantic efforts of Mr. G. H. Reid, M.L.A., and a few others to arouse a feeling of dissatisfaction, to draw any other inference from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, -- The report of the great meeting of publicans and sinners" to growl over the appointment of Mr. Davies to the Licensing Bench, and the frothy speech of Mr. G. H. Reid and others suggest the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter appeared in last Friday's S. M. Herald:— "SIR,— For several days past it has been asserted, without contradiction, that the vacancy…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →SIR,—It is not very surprising that the members of the Trade Defence Association should ba somewhat exercised in mind respecting the appointment of Mr. John Davies to a seat on the Licensing Bench., or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--Allow me privilege and space through your valuable medium thus to express a few of my thonght and convictions on the liquor traffic, reckoned in the eyes of a money-making, and in my stimation a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday evening a public meeting was held at the Masonic Hall, under the auspices of the Trade Defence Association, to protest against the appointment of Mr. John Davies to the Licensing Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sir,—In Mr. G. H. Reid's reply to the Rev. F.B. Boyce, which appeared in your issue of Friday, he says, "I have no personal knowledge of the matter, my statement of the nature of the Good Templar's pledge was taken from a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—There are so many diversities of opinion as to the exact legislative intention of the 30th and 31st clauses that I will endeavour to interpret them, so as to make them read as explicit as A, B, C. They are to the effect that all houses…
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