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Hotels & licensing, 1888

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Licensing Courts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench was held at the Central Police Court yesterday, Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., presiding. It being the day for the annual…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 6

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. Marsh, Addison and Fisher, L.M.s. Tho publican's license of William…

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Licensing Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench took place at the Water Police Court-house at noon yesterday, there being present Messrs. Marsh (chairman), Addison, and Fisher, L.Ms. The transfer of the license of the Royal…

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Attempted Murder in a I Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1888 · page 5

A man named Kellas Watson entered the Blue Anchor Hotel, Lower George-street, last I night and asked to see the licensee, a man named Thomas Parker. The latter was in the…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday, January 4. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes, J. E. Manning, and John Taylor, L Ms.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1888 · page 8

John Cartwright was charged, under the 53rd section of the Principal Licensing Act, on the information of Sub-Inspector, Latimer, that on the 22nd day of December lie had on his…

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Licensing

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 January 1888 · page 5

AT the usual weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, held to-day at the Central, a transfer of a publican's license was granted to John Martin Long…

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Breaches of the Licensing Act

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1888 · page 5

BATHURST, Monday --At the Licensing Court to-day, a publican was charged with opening his house on Sunday, December 25. He pleaded that it was Christmas Day, and the Act…

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Licensing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 6

AT the usual weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, held to-day at the Central, a transfer of a publican's license was granted to John Martin Lang…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The usual weekly meeting of the central police division of the Licensing Court was held yesterday, when, in the absence of other magistrates, Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., dealt with…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Star

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Marsh and Fisher, L.M.'s. Transfers of publican's licenses were granted from…

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Robbery From an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 3

Henry Hewlett, Robert Smith aud Louis Blenheim were brought before the Bench at the Water Police Court yesterday charged with having stolen from the Blue Anchor Hotel in…

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Licensing Court. TUESDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Lethbridge, J.P.

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 4

Kate Nystrom, applied for a transfer of the license of the Orient Hotel. Granted…

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The Hotel Boots

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 8

ABOUT a month ago the landlord of the Criterion Hotel, Pitt-street, engaged a quiet looking man as boots to the establishment. The new boy the…

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A Licensed Victualler. Mr. P. R. Larkin

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 5

THE reporter who interviews a licensed victualler has what is pretty well known in the business of journalism as a very lively time. But when an invitation was…

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'Crown und Anchor Hotel, Sydney (See illustration on page 79.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 10

One by one the old laudmarks of the city of Sydney are disappearing before the march of civilisation. Old buildings which were years ago pointed out as line specimens of street…

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A Licensed Victualler. Mr. P. R. Larkin

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 6

THE reporter who interviews a licensed victualler has what is pretty well known in the business of journalism as a very lively time. But when an invitation was…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 5

In the Licensing Court, Messrs. Johnson and Yates dealt with a number of applications, the following being granted:—Mary Forsythe, Evening Star Hotel, Waterloo, as executrix in the estate of the late George Forsythe; and…

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