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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1897

760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 38

Cellarman Ap Boots. An Hotel Disturbance

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 August 1897 · page 6

George Martin, who appeared at the Water Police Court this morning on a charge of maliciously wounding Arthur Lowis, presented a pitiable spectacle. He was covered in blood,…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held at noon to-day; before bench of magistrates consisting of Messrs. W. Johnson, S.M., P. W. Edwards, S.M., and F. Penny, L.M…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1897 · page 7

Messrs. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M. (chairman), Edwards, S.M., and F. Penuy, L.M., occupied the Bench at the weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court yesterday and granted a transfer of the license…

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Northern Notes. Without a License. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 September 1897 · page 6

At the police court to-day 39 persons were fined in sums varying from £1 to £3 for selling tobacco Without licenses. FOUND DEAD…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 September 1897 · page 6

At the weekly meeting of the Licensing Court this morning the following transfer was granted:--"The Welsh Harp," Forbes-street, from Tonia Kisbee to Maurico Hartnett…

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A Hotel Burned Down

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1897 · page 3

MUSWELLBROOK, Friday.-A destructive fire occurred here yesterday (morning, when the Junction Hotel was burned to the ground. The fire was noticed a, few minuted past 4 o'clock, and the flames spread…

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Hotel Burnt Down. Fire at Muswellbrook. MUSWELLBROOK

The Australian Star · Friday 3 September 1897 · page 6

At 4 o'clock this morning the Junction Hotel, Muswellbrook, occupied by Mr. Hill, was burned to the ground. It was a wooden building of one story, the property of Mr. Rasmussen, and is…

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Bellair's Commercial Hotel

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1897 · page 497

One of the best known hostelries in the district is Bellair's, the view of which in this issue of the "Sydney Mail" will convey a perfect idea of its outward form. The late Mr. T. S. Bellair (whose…

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New South Wales Forges in London. Dinner at the Hotel Cecil

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 September 1897 · page 4

LONDON, July 30.—"There was a sound of revelry by night" at the Hotel Cecil last evening, when a committee of eminent Anglo- colonists, headed by Messrs. Sinclair MacLeay, David…

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A Hotel Burned Down

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 September 1897 · page 9

MACKAY, Friday.—A fire occurred at 3.30 this morning in the Victoria Hotel, which was totally destroyed, the occupants barely escaping. Tho hotel and adjoining structure…

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The Great Fires of Sydney. the Theatre Royal and Hotel. a Blaze in 1840. a Quaint Piece of Old

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 September 1897 · page 9

THIS weak the old fire story goes back to 1840, when as appears below, Sydney was in a very raw state—not out of its convict clothes, as it were…

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Central Licensing Court

Evening News · Monday 6 September 1897 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held to-day .Messrs. Johnson, S.M., Macfarlane, D.S.M., and Penny, L.M., occupied the bench. The following transfers of publicans'…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 September 1897 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was yesterday presided over by. Messrs. Johnson, S.M., M'Farlane, D.S.M., and Penny, L.M. Transfers of publicans' licenses wore granted in the…

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New South Wales Troops in England. Entertained at the Hotel Cecil. [By Telegraph From Albany.] London, Aug. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 September 1897 · page 7

The officers and men of the New South Wales Corps were entertained at a banquet at the Hotel Cecil by a number of gentlemen prominently connected with New South Wales. The corps…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Wednesday 8 September 1897 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held at noon to-day. Mr. G. W. P. Addison, S.M., chairman; Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., and Mr. F. Penny, L.M., constituted the bench…

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Liquor Without a License

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 September 1897 · page 5

Cissie Craddock (22) appeared in a natty black serge dress with braid-embroidered body, at the Water Police Court this morning, on a charge of selling liquor--to wit, a bottle of ale--without…

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Newcastle Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 September 1897 · page 6

To-day the license of the Criterion Hotel city, was transferred from Mrs. Buchanan to J. A. Pulbrook, and the license of the Criterion Hotel, Carrington, was transferred from Edward Russell…

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Victoria. Sudden Death at an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- An elderly man named Alfred Sykes, said to be the brother of an English baronet, was found dead in bed at the Royal Standard Hotel this afternoon. The deceased was…

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