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Hotels & licensing, 1891

723 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 37

The Hotel Australia Fatality

The Australian Star · Friday 10 July 1891 · page 6

The City Coroner to-day resumed and concluded the inquest relative to the death of Samuel Edward Dickenson, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Sunday last from…

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Newcastle Notes. Meeting of Miners' Delegates. Charge of Assault. A Homeless Family. Licensed Victuallers. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 10 July 1891 · page 5

A meeting of delegates to the Hunter River Association was held yesterday afternoon, but the business transacted, it is understood, was of a purely formal…

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The Cancellation of Hotel Licenses. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 3

Sir,--I think it is Sergeant Robinson who, in his autobiography, relates the anecdote of the rustic who was charged with stealing a pig, and there were five persons who saw him…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association

Evening News · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.-The annual meeting of the Northern licensed Victuallers' Association was held yesterday afternoon. The report showed that eight new members had joined, and that…

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Purchasing an Hotel

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 6

IN the No. 1 Jury Court this afternoon, before his Honor the Chief Justice, the case of Groves v. Peoples was commenced. In this case the plaintiff, John Groves, sued to…

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Gigantic Hotel Enterprise. Opening Banquet at "The Australia."

Evening News · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 2

At the invitation of the directors of the Angle Australian Investment, Finance, and Land Co Limited, a large number of gentlemen attende at the Hotel Australia on Saturday evening…

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The Australia Hotel. Description of the Building. Opening Demonstration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 5

The huge building known as the"Australia," [?]cted in Cast[?] and Rowe streets by the Anglo-Australian Investment, Land, and Finance Company, Limited, was formally opened on Saturday evening…

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The Hotel Australia

The Australian Star · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 4

THE opening of the Hotel Australia in Castlereagh-street is an event that is worthy of more than a passing notice, for the building is the most…

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The Hotel Australia. Opening Banquet

The Australian Star · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 7

AN epoch in the history of Australian hotels was marked on Saturday night by a banquet at the opening of the Hotel Australia in Castlereagh-street. This building, which…

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Examination of Licensed Surveyors

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 4

The examinations which have hitherto been held of candidates for the positions of licensed. surveyors have been conducted by a board consisting of officials of the Lands…

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Breaking Into the Unique Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 3

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. Delohery, D.S.M., James O'Connor, 28, was charged with having broken and entered into the house of Joseph Benjamin Oliffe, Sussex and Druitt…

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Robbery From a Hotel. Two Months' Imprisonment. PARRAMARTA

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 6

Patrick Harris was brought up at the Police Court this morning and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for being concerned in the robbery from Rawlinson's…

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"The Australia" Hotel. the Machinery Department

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 2

Inexperienced persons on first looking into the machinery-room of "The Australia" Hotel (the formal opening of which was reported in yesterday's Daily Telegraph)…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 July 1891 · page 7

The weekly meeting of the Central Division of the Licensing Court was held at the Central Police Court yesterday. Transfers of publicans' licenses were granted from Frederick Cooper, of the Rose and…

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Central Licensing Court

Evening News · Wednesday 15 July 1891 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday, before Mr. C. Delohery.The following transfers of publican's licences…

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Breaches of Licensing Act

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 July 1891 · page 5

PHILLIP RONAN, licensee of the Monaro Hotel, Forbes-street, Woolloomooloo, was fined £10 at the Water Police -Court to-day for selling liquor before 6 o'clock in the…

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Wine Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 4

The chairman of the Parramatta Licensing Bench, Mr. Henry Byrnes, at tile quarterly meeting of the Court yesterday referred to an anomaly in the licensing law, pointing out…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 2

The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court was held at the Water Police Court yesterday before Captain Fisher, S.M.,Messrs.O' Malley Clarke, S.M. B.Lee, S.M.,T.K. Abbott, S.M., and J. Graham, L.M…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Water Police Licensing Court was held yesterday, and presided over by Messrs. Clarke, Abbott, Lee, and Fisher, S.M.., and J. Graham, L.M…

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Survey Licenses

The Australian Star · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 6

AT an examination lately held to determine the qualifications of candidates for license to survey under the Crown Lands Acts, the following gentlemen were found by the…

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