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Hotels & licensing, 1894

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 6

The licensing business at the Water Police Court to-day was disposed of by Messrs, Delohery, Smithers, S.M.'s, and Penny, L.M. Thomas Buckland, having…

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A Licensing Case

Evening News · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 7

An application was made by Lotus Lasbies at the Water Police Licensing Court yesterday for the transfer of the licence of the Norfolk Pine Hotel, Mullins-street…

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Charge Against a Publican. Alleged Serious Assault

The Australian Star · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 6

In the summons division of the Water Police Court to-day William Sutton, licensee of the Wynyard Hotel, Clarence and Erskine streets, was proceeded against for an…

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Hotels or Drinking Shops— Which? to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 2

Sir,—Will you please grant me space in your valuable paper to record an experience which to say the least is peculiar and perhaps interesting. Last Sunday a friend and myself reached North Sydney…

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Caution to Hotel- Keepers. Bourke

The Australian Star · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 2

The inspector of breweries for the western district paid a visit to Bourke last week, and took the names of no less than 16 hotel- keepers, all of whom will be brought to…

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Attempted Suicide of a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 5

COBAR, Thursday.--Arthur Crow, a publican, while at the Great Western mine yesterday, cut his throat with a pocketknife, severing the windpipe. He was…

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Breach of the Licensing Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 10

J. E. M'Donald, licensee of Mack's Hotel, Parramatta, was charged with having sold liquor during unlawful hours on Sunday, the 26th August. He pleaded guilty, and explained that the liquor had…

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Licensing Court

Evening News · Monday 3 September 1894 · page 5

At the Central Licensing Court to-day there were present Captain Fisher; S.M., Mr. Giles, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M. A renewal of a publican's licence was…

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Daring Hotel Burglary

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 September 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--An extensive burglary was committed at the Langham Hotel, Bourke-street, last night. Entrance was affected by smashing a skylight. The…

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Licensing Court

Evening News · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

At the Central Licensing Court yesterday there were present Captain Fisher, S.M., Mr. Giles, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M. A renewal of a publican's licence was…

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An Hotel Thief

Evening News · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 4

At the Parramatta Police Court to-day Fanny Kendall was charged with stealing on September 1 three vases from Holmes's hotel, and a bell and toilet cover…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 6
Also in Evening News

At to-day's meeting of the Water Police Licensing Bench transfers of publicans licenses were granted from Carl Peterson to Mary J. Ryan, Royal Hotel,…

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The Police Courts. Weekly Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 3

Messrs. Johnson, Delohery, and Smithers, S.Ms., and F. Penny, L. M., presided at the weekly sitting of the Water Division Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday…

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Police Courts. Proceedings Under the Adulteration Act. Proseoution of a Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 3

In the Summons Division of the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Giles, S.M., Inspector Lenthall proceeded against George Smith, a publican carrying on business at the Evening Star Hotol,…

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Assault in an Hotel. [Some of the Following Items Appeared in Our Late Editions of Yesterday.]

Evening News · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 5

At the Water Police Court' yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., the hearing of the assault case, Francis Geo. Feegan aganst William Sutton, was…

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Publicans' Liquor. "Alleged" Whisky

Evening News · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 7

In the Summons Division at the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Giles, S.M., Inspector Lenthall proceeded against George Smith, licensee of the Evening…

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Mixed Drinks. The Adulteration of Liquor. Publicans Charged

The Australian Star · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 7

In the summons division of tho Central Police Court yesterday, before his Worship Mr. James Giles, S.M., Inspector Lenthall, as chief police officer of the licensing…

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Charge Against a Publican

The Australian Star · Thursday 6 September 1894 · page 8

At the Water Police Court yesterday the adjourned hearing was resumed of the case in which William H. Sutton, licensee of the Wynyard Hotel, Erskine…

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