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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1897

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Hawkers' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1897 · page 4

Last night, at the meeting of the Alexandria Council, Alderman Allen said he noticed that the City Council had decided to assist the shopkeepers in the city by compelling hawkers to pay…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 3

The Water Licensing Court yesterday granted a transfer of the license of the Warwick Castle Hotel, Mort and Darling streets, Balmain, from George Vincent to John Kelly…

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Assault in an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 3

Walter Green (25), a dealer, was charged at the Balmain Court yesterday with unlawfully assaulting Michael Joyce, on the 2nd inst. Plaintiff deposed that ho was in the bar of the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Hotel,…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 3
Also in The Cumberland Free Press

Before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, L.M., and A. W. Stephen and D. McKillop, J's.P. Sergeant Thorndike presented his quarterly report to the Bench…

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The Licensing Bench. Alderman Penny Re-appointed

Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 7

Alderman Frederick Penny, L.M., has received an intimation from the Minister for Justice that he has been re-appointed a member of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench for a further period of…

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Hawkers' Licenses. Regarded As Unjust. the Fish Trade and Disease. a Serious Allegation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 7

A deputation representing the hawkers of the city was introduced to the Major (Alderman Ives) at the Town Hall yesterday by Alderman Jessep, M. L. A., for the purpose of laying before him what the…

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Licensing Magistrate

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 6

Alderman Fred Penny, who since the death of Mr. Joseph Graham, L.M., three years ago, has occupied a seat on the Metropolitan Licensing bench, has…

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Hawkers and the City Council. the Imposition of Licensing Fees Deprecated. a Deputation Waits Upon the Mayor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 14

The City Council has recently decided to impose a tax or licensing fee upon all persons who earn their livelihood by hawking. There are hawkers and hawkers--some deal in fish, some in…

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Police Courts. Breaches of the Licensing Act

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 14

At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Ada Rochford, the licensee of the Town and Country Hotel, May-street, St. Peters, was charged with having, at 10.33 p.m. on Christmas Day, kept her…

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A Quarter Century Suffering. the Case, to All Human Appearances, Incurable—a Richmond River Hotelkeeper Cured by Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 6

Nigh onto three score and ten, but in possession of the health and spirits of youth, after five and twenty years' illness, a life time to many. Such is the strong and reliable testimony of Mr. David…

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Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 13

There being no police objections a transfer of the Fig Tree Hotel license was granted to George Dooley from Patrick O Maley. HAWKERS…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph

The weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench was held at the Central Police Court to-day. Messrs. C. Delohery, S.M., and F. Penny, L.M.,…

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Fire at Ballina. Hotel Burned Down

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 6

BALLINA, Tuesday.—The Royal Hotel, Ballina, owned by Allt and Company, and leased by T. G. M'Mahon, caught fire last night, and was burned to the ground, despite the efforts made to…

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Water Rights Act. Applications for Licenses

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 3

The Minister for Works is now considering a large number of applications for registration of rights under the Water Rights Act. passed last session…

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Sub-letting a Bar. a Publican Fined £10

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 2

At the Central Police Court yesterday Jesse Howard Hughes, licensee of the Flower Pot Hotel. York-street, was fined £10, in default one month's…

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Sub-letting a Bar. Contrivance to Deceive the Police. 'A' Publican Fined £10

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 3

Jesse Howard Hughes, licensee of the Flower Pot Hotel, York-street, was charged yesterday at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Edwards, S.M., with having on December 28, 1896, employed an unlicensed person, Jessie…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1897 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held at the Water Police Court yesterday. The bench was occupied by Messrs. C. Delohery, S.M. (in the chair), G. H. Smithers, S.M., F. S. Isaacs,…

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