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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1889

727 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 37

An Hotel Sneak

The Australian Star · Tuesday 16 July 1889 · page 6

AT the Water Police Court to-day William Spence, or Vincent, was alleged to have laid illegal fingers upon a head covering claimed by G. M. Simpson…

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Licensing Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1889 · page 11

A meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench was held yesterday at the Central Police Court, there being present: Messrs. W. Johnson, S.M. (chairman), C. Dclohery, D.S.M., and John Macintosh,…

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Licensing Court

Evening News · Wednesday 17 July 1889 · page 6
Also in The Australian Star

The quarterly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench was held at the Central Police Court on Tuesday when the following business was transacted:…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 July 1889 · page 6

The quarterly (Licensing Bench met at the Central Court at noon yesterday, there being present Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M. (chairman). Mr. Delohery, D.S.H., and Mr…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 July 1889 · page 11

A meeting of the Ryde Licensing Court was held yesterday. Mr. T. Cu[?]eo, for whom Mr. Roberts, sen., appeared, applied for a conditional license for the house lately known as the Fig Tree Hotel, at Hunter's…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Friday 19 July 1889 · page 2

THE adjourned quarterly licensing meeting was held at the Water Police Court yesterday, in the presence of Messrs. G. W. F. Addison, S.M., Fisher, S.M., Lee,…

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The Burglary Business. the Fairfield Hotel Robbery. an Opiate Used

Evening News · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 6

Mr. Hancock, Proprietor of the Fairfield Hotel, is very reticent over the burglary committed at his house recently ; but the following additional facts have been furnished us. During the day…

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The Turf Scandal. Wood Warned Off. Sherrard's. License Cancelled. LONDON, July 19

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 5

The English Jockey Club has decided in consequence of the revelations at the recent inquiry into the Chetwynd-Durham dispute, to warn Charles Wood, the jockey…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Monday, July 15. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes and N. Stewart, L.M's.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 3

John Madden, licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, Rookwood, was fined £5 and 4s 10d costs of Court, for committing a breach of the Licensing Act by selling liquor during…

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A Wife Beating Publican

Evening News · Monday 22 July 1889 · page 3

John O'Grady, licensee of the Hand of Friendship Hotel, Marshall-street, Surry Hills, was on Saturday at the Water Police Court sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, without the option…

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Loophole in the Licensing Law

Evening News · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 3

Our Ryde correspondent writes as follows: It is a somewhat astonishing thing, after no less than twenty-seven Acts of Parliament have been passed, to restrict as far as possible the sale of…

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Hotel Robberies

Evening News · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Two robberies at hotels have been reported to the police. Mr. Young, hotel-keeper, Carrington, missed £22 which he had put away in a private room, and he found the…

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COUNTRY. Hotel Robberies

The Australian Star · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Two robberies from hotels have been reported to the police. Mr. Young, of Carrington, carelessly left L22 on a table in his back parlor on Friday…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 July 1889 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star, The Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Central Court yesterday, before Messrs. Clarke, S.M., Johnson, S.M., and Macintosh, L.M. Transfers of publicans'…

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Hotel Barbering

Evening News · Thursday 25 July 1889 · page 6

A young man named John Williams was, at the Water Police Court on Wednesday, charged with having stolen the sum of 6s 3d, the property of Henry Taylor. The prisoner took a bed at…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association

The Australian Star · Thursday 25 July 1889 · page 6

A SPECIAL general meeting of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was held at 100 Castlcreagh-strcet yesterday afternoon. There was a…

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