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Hotels & licensing, 1895

803 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 41

Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1895 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M. (chairman), C. Delohery, S.M., and F. Penny, L.M., occupied the Bench. Applications for transfers of…

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News by Cable. Disastrous Explosion. A Hotel Destroyed. Fifty Lives Lost

Evening News · Tuesday 20 August 1895 · page 6

LONDON, August 19.-The Gumry Hotel, one of the principal hotels in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A, has been destroyed through the explosion of a…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 August 1895 · page 6

Their Worships Mr. Delohery and Mr. Smithers, S.M.'s, and Mr. Penny, L.M., presided at to-day's meeting of the Central icon sing Court. Transfers of licenses…

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Second Edition. Terrible Explosion in America. Hotel Wrecked and Fifty People Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 August 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Monday, 2 p.m.--An explosion in a hotel in Denver City, United States, wrecked the building and lulled 50 persons…

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Transit Commission. Suggested Reduction of License Fees

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 August 1895 · page 5

The Transit Commission held a meeting this morning, the following being present:-- The Mayor, Mr. S. E. Lees (in the chair), Inspector Fosbery, and Messrs. Russell…

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Our Special Cables. Terrible Explosion in America. Hotel Wrecked and People Killed, Many Gradually Burned to Death. the Firemen Unable to Render Assistance

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 August 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday, 2 p.m.--An explosion in an hotel in Denver City, United States, wrecked the building and killed 50 persons…

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A Hotel Ghost

Evening News · Saturday 24 August 1895 · page 4

Apropos of a report that the Brevoort House was to be closed, which was denied, however, there is a story that Lady Dunraven has been known to tell about the…

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Central Licensing Court. Illicit Still Liquor

Evening News · Monday 26 August 1895 · page 5

The weekly sittings of the Central Licensing Court was held to-day. Messrs. Johnson (chairman), Smithers, and Delohery, S.Ms., and Mr. Penny, L.M., occupied…

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New York Publicans. the Question of Sunday Closing. Compelled to Yield to Pressure

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 August 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday Night.--From New York it is reported that the publicans of the city, despite all the influence and help or Tammany Hall, have…

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Destructive Eire at Wollongong. Eleven Houses and Shops Destroyed. an Hotel and a Shop Alight, But Saved. the Sydney Fire Brigade Wired For

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 August 1895 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Sunday.--The most destructive fire that hits ever devastated this town broke out shortly before 7 o'clock tonight in the hack portion of premises…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 August 1895 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. Messrs. Penny, L.M., and Delohery Smithers, and Johnson, S.Ms., occupied the bench. Applications for renewals of…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 August 1895 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. An application by Francis John Wilson for a renewal of license for the Earl of Zetland Hotel. Waterloo, was…

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Water Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 August 1895 · page 7

The following transfers of publicans' Hcense were granted at yesterday's meeting of the Water Licensing Court:--James A. Walsh to Edgar Walter Greene, Theatre Royal Hotel…

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Milk Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 August 1895 · page 3

Sir,—I desire to draw public attention to the necessity of amending the Dairy Supervision Act in reference to the issue of licenses. From what I can learn these licenses are issued indiscriminately, and,…

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Theft From an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 August 1895 · page 7

About a fortnight ago a quantity of house linen, valued at £7, was stolen from O Shannessy's Hotel, at the corner of Park and George streets, and the matter was placed lu…

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Honorary Magistrates And the Administration of Justice Scene in a Melbourne Court. Alleged Packing of the Licensing Court-- An Indignant J.P. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 30 August 1895 · page 5

The controversy which has been going on with regard to the attendance of honorary magistrates at police courts onlminated in quite a scene in the District Court yesterday…

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Victoria. Imputations Against the Licensing Bench. a Strange Wrangle in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 August 1895 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--There was an extraordinary scene in the District Court to-day. Mr. Nicolson, P.M., was presiding, and Messrs. Lormer, Rappiport, Mason…

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The Alleged Selling of Irish Seats. Unequivocal Denial Hy the Chairman of the Irish Party. (To the Editor of the FREEMAN.) Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, 13th July, 1895

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 6

Dear Sir,— The charges against the Committee of the Irish Party which have been attributed to Mr. Healy, and which he has never yet either denned or repudiated, have been the chief stock-in-trade of…

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The Tobacco License. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 11

Sir,—A deputation of tobacconists waited upon the Colonial Secretary to-day and amongst other griewances requested the Government to raise the licensefee to £20 per annum, for the ostensible reason of…

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