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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1883

204 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 11

The Licensing Act

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1883 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A meeting for the purpose of forming a league, with a view to effect improvements in the Licensing Act, and to watch its administration, was held in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, yesterday afternoon…

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Mr. Reid at the Oxford Hotel

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1883 · page 3

A meeting of the friends and supporters of the Hon. G. H. Reid was held last night at the Oxford Hotel, Kingstreet. Some delay occurred before the candidate and his supporters made a…

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The Licensing Act

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 14

A MEETING for the purpose of forming a league, with a view to effect improvements in the Licensing Act, and to watch its administration, was hold in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, on January 4. Mr…

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Police Espionage and the Licensing Act. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1883 · page 3

Sir,--As a constant reader of your daily journal, and knowing the justice which you allow to all, I have much pleasure in asking you to insert these few lines on my behalf. As I, with my wife, was taking…

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Quarterly Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1883 · page 3

At the Central Police Court, yesterday at noon, a Licensing Court was held, the magistrates present being Messrs. Dillon, S.M., Clark, S.M., Crane, S.M., and George Macintosh, J.P. The…

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Licensed Surveyors

Evening News · Thursday 1 February 1883 · page 2

At an examination lately held to determine the qualification of candidates for license to survey under the Crown Lands Act, the following gentlemen were found by the board to be competent, and have…

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The Licensing Act. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1883 · page 6

Sir,--It is admitted on all hands that the Licensing Act requires amending in some particulars, and in all probability the subject will receive the attention of Parliament during the present session, but I do…

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The Buffaloes and the Licensing Bench

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 February 1883 · page 2

The members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes muster very strong in and about Sydney. They have five lodges, and number on their rolls not many short of a thousand, which,…

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The Licensing Act. Important Ministerial Statement

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1883 · page 2

A deputation consisting of Mr. A. R. Fromlin M.P., and Mr. D. Ager waited this morning upon Mr. Cohen, Minister of Justice, to lay certain face under his notice for the purpose, if possible, of…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 February 1883 · page 4

A LicensinG Court was held at the Central Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Dillon, Crane, and Clark, S.Ms. The following cases were disposed of:--…

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Deputation. Amendment of the Licensing Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 February 1883 · page 8

Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. A. R. Fremlin M.L.A., and Mr. Ager, landlord of the Lord Raglan Hotel, Alexandria, waited upon the hon. Minister for Justice. The object of the deputation was to bring under…

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The Troubles of Licensed Victuallers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 19

THE hotel-keepers are having more than their share of trouble and indignities and annoyance. A few days ago one of this much-persecuted class was summoned before the Central Police…

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The Licensing Act. Important Ministerial Statement

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 15

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. A. R. Fremlin, M.P., and Mr. D. Ager, on Wednesday waited upon Mr. Cohen, Minister of Justice, to lay certain facts under his notice for the purpose, if possible, of…

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Licensed Surveyors

Evening News · Monday 12 February 1883 · page 2

GOOD laws are essential to good order in society.—they are amongst that mingled system of good and less good working together, which we see in operation among all living things upon this earth;…

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Hotel Burnt at Milwaukee—fearful Loss of Life

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1883 · page 4

Milwankee, January 10.—The Nowhall House, a six-story brick building, at the corner of Michigan-street and Broadway, was burned to the ground this forenoon. The fire was discovered at 4 a.m. In less than half-an-hour the…

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Parliament and the Licensing Act. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1883 · page 4

Sir,—At this juncture in politics to the friends of temperance reform, who are waiting in some suspense to see what alterations the new Government propose to make in the present Licencing Bill, it is important that every piece of…

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Fatal Fall From the Balcony of an Hotel

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1883 · page 2

The adjourned inquest into the death of Denis Callnghan, who died at the Sydney Hospital on Sunday, from the effects of injuries sustained through falling from the balcony of the River…

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The Magistrates, the Police, and the Licensing Act

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 18

IN the Legislative Assembly, last Tuesday, there was some pretty plain speaking. Mr. M'Elhone said, he thought that the publicans of Sydney were persecuted by the police and Mr. Dillon, for…

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Paying a Hotel Btll with a Poem

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 6

JOHN M Cullough tells the following story of his fellow-actor—Lawrence Barrett:—"In those carly days, when we where both young and the bloom was on the rye, we came one night after a hard…

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