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Hotels & licensing, 1889

727 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 37

Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Evening News

A meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench took place at the Central Police Court at noon yesterday, when there were present Messrs. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M. (chairman), T. K. Abbott, S.M., and John…

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The "Australia" Hotel

Evening News · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 8

On Tuesday, shortly after noon; Sir Henry Paries, in the presence of a distinguished company, laid the foundation stone of the Australia Hotel-a building that, when completed,…

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The Australia Hotel. Laying of the Corner Stone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 4

Yesterday morning the corner-stone of The Australia Hotel, the foundations of which now rest on the corner of Castlereagh and Rowe streets, was laid by Sir Henry Parkes. It is to meet a long f[?]it want of a…

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Tobacco Licenses

The Australian Star · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, This Day.-- A shopkeeper named Henry has been fined £5 and costs for selling tobacco without a license. Though carrying on a tobacconist business for several…

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The Australia Hotel

The Australian Star · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 5

The foundation-stone of the Australia Hotel, was laid at noon to-day by Sir Henry Parkes, in the presence of a very large attendance of people. The…

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Charge Against a Hotelkeeper. Alleged Larceny As a Bailee. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Tuesday.--A charge of a serious nature, preferred against a publican named George Edward Walker, licensee of the George Hotel. one of the leading hotels here, occupied…

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"The Australia" Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 4

It is seldom that the building of a hotel is attended by the formal ceremony of laying the foundation stone. Even when that ceremony is observed in…

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The Australia Hotel. the Foundation-stone Laid

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 6

The foundation-stone of the Australia Hotel was laid yesterday at noon by the Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, in the presence of a large assemblage of members of Parliament and…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association

Evening News · Thursday 20 June 1889 · page 8

Melbourne, Wednesday.-The committee of the Victorian United Licensed Victuallers' Association held a special meeting to-day, and passed a resolution protesting against the appointment…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 20 June 1889 · page 5

A SITTING of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court to-day. Captain Fisher, S.M., and Mr. M'Intosh, L.M., presided. The following hotel transfers were…

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Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 June 1889 · page 4

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court yesterday Present: Messrs. A. M. Fisher and John Macintosh, L.M s. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:…

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Licensing Court

Evening News · Friday 21 June 1889 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of the above was held at the Water Police Court on Thursday, Captain Fisher S.M. (chairman), and Mr. John Macintosh, L.M., presiding. The business transacted was as…

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How English and Colonial Criminal Work. No. 15.—How Hotel Thieves Ascertain Where The. Proprietors Keep Their Cashboxes

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 7

It must be awfully aggravating for Mr. Boniface, the genial licensee of "The Velvet Tooothpick," to find, upon retiring to rest, that his bedroom chest of drawers…

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The Australia Hotel

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 1312

ON Tuesday morning Sir Henry Parkes laid the corner-stone of "The Australia Hotel," which is in course of erection on the corner of Castlereagh and Rowe streets. The building, when…

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The "Australia" Hotel

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 13

On Tuesday, shortly after noon, Sir Henry Parkes, in the presence of a distinguished company, laid the foundation stone of the Australia Hotel—a building that, when completed…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 5

THE regular weekly meeting of the Central Police Licensing Court, his Worship Mr. Johnson, S.M., presiding, was held at noon to-day. The following transfers of publicans'…

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Raid on Tobacconists--selling Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--At the police court to-day nearly all the publicans and storekeepers of the town were fined for selling tobacco and cigars without a license. The fines ranged from…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1889 · page 11

A meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench took place at the Central Police Court at noon yesterday, when there were present: Messrs. Clarke and Johnson, S.M.'s., and Mr. Macintosh, L.M. Toa following…

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