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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1888

607 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 31

Licensing Court

Evening News · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 6

Mr. Addison, S.M., presided in the Licensing Court (Water Police division) on Thursday, and disposed of the following business:-PUBLICANS' TRANFERS.—Oaks Hotel,…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 10
Also in Evening News, The Australian Star

The weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench was held at the Central Court yesterday, Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., presiding. Transfers of publicans' licenses…

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Disastrous Fire at Church Hill. Destruction of Wentworth House Hotel and Loss of Life. Escape of the Freeman's Journal Office

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 9

A SADDER sight on Christmas morning-on the day which is the synonym for brightness and happiness-it would be difficult to imagine than the charred ruins of Wentworth House Hotel,…

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Hotel Swells

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 7

See the city hotel swells. Howling swells, What asinine assurance each attitude now tells! How they ogle, ogle, ogle…

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A Hotel Destroyed by Fire

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 1347

A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday morning, when the Wentworth House Family Hotel, situated at No. 13, Church-hill, one of the oldest buildings in this city was destroyed in less than two hours, during which…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Thursday, December 20, 1888. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes and N. Stewart, L.M’s.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 7

ROBERT J. WILSON, licenses of the Royal Exchange Hotel, Granville, was charged with committing a breach of the Licensing Act in Permitting music and dancing on a portion of…

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