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Hotels & licensing, 1896

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Central Licensing Court

Evening News · Monday 19 October 1896 · page 5

The adjourned meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held to-day. The bench was occupied by Messrs. Smithers (chairman), Edwards, S.Ms., and Penny. L.M. The following transfers…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 6

The Central Licensing Bench, Messrs. Smlthers, S.M., Edwards, S.M., and Penny, L.M., sat to-day. A renewal of license, was granted Jas…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. There were on the bench Messrs. Smithers, Edwards, S.Ms, and F. Penny, L.M. Applications were granted as follows:…

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A Peculiar Licensing Case

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 6

BATHURST, Tuesday. -- The annual railway picnic is announced to take place on the show ground on Monday next. This morning a publican applied to the Licensing Bench for a booth…

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Selling Railway Tickets. a Publican Fined

Evening News · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 5

NOWRA, Tuesday.—Caas. Oke. a publican, was to-day fined £5 for selling a railway ticket. Mr. Thorn prosecuted on behalf of the Railway Commissioners. The case created some excitement…

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A Bathurst Licensing Case

Evening News · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 7

BATHURST, Wednesday.—Before Mr. C. E. Smith at the Licensing Court yesterday an application was made for a licence for a booth at the annual railway picnic which is to lake place on the show…

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A Licensing Application. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 5

At the Licensing Court to-day Mr. C. E. Smith, P.M., licensing magistrate, dealt with an unusual objection against the issue ot a booth license for the railway employees' pienic sports to be held on the…

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Proposed Amendment of the Licensing Law. Removing Certain Disabilities

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 6

Mr. O'SULLIVAN moved,--'"That leave be given to bring in a bill to amend the licensing laws." He said the proposed measure was for the purpose of removing certain disabilities from women who…

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Water Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, Mr. Delohery, S.M., presiding, with him on the bench being Mr. Isaacs, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M. The following transfers of publicans' licenses…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the weekly meeting of the Licensing Court, held at the Water Police Court to-day, Mr. C. Delohery presided, and Mr. Isaacs, S.M. and Mr. F. Penny,…

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Water Licensing Bench

Evening News · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Water Police Division licensing Bench was held yesterday. Present: Mr. C. Delohery, S.M. (chairman), Mr. Isaacs, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M. The following…

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Selling Liquor on Sunday. Mr. Griffith As Amateur Detective. the Premier on the Licensing Law

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 6

Mr. GRIFFITH moved the adjournment of the House in order to call attention to the evils arising from the failure of the liquor licensing law in regard to Sunday trading. The Sunday trade in…

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Amending the Licensing Law

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 4

Mr. Bull has lost, no time in responding to the invitation extended to him by the Premier during the debate on Mr. Griffith's adjournment motion in the Legislative Assembly on…

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RYDE. General News. Licensing

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 10

The Quarterly Licensing Court will be held at Ryde on the 27th inst. Two new wine [?] will be applied for, the applicants being Mr. George Fox, storekeeper of East…

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The Fairfield Hotel and Race-course Co. "Exposing" the Company

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 13

The official liquidator of the Fairfield Hotel and Racecourse Company applied to the Equity Court on the 18th inst., for an order for the enforcement of…

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Hotel Metropole, Bent, Phillip, and Young Streets, Sydney

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 855

The high-water mark of the year's advance in city improvements may safely be said to be in the palatial premises which have been built for the Hotel Metropole, Limited, and which were…

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"A Peculiar Licensing Case." (See "Daily Telegraph," October 21.) to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 October 1896 · page 6

Sir,--The 300 people in Orange who signed the petition praying that this year a publican's license be not granted in connection with the railway employees' picnic are profoundly disappointed…

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The Courts. Central Licensing Court

Evening News · Monday 26 October 1896 · page 5

At the weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court to-day Messrs. Addison (chairman), and Smithers, S.Ms., occupied the bench. The application for the transfer of the licence of the…

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A Mysterious Death. a Woman Found Dead in an Hotel Yard

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 October 1896 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A mysterious tragedy was enacted at the Grand Hotel early this morning, Mrs. Alice Bostock, wife of a commission agent at Warrnambool, being found in a pool of…

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