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Hotels & licensing, 1897

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1897 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to James Ramsay, Royal Exchange, Marrickville, and to Annie King, Lillie Bridge, Forest Lodge…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 2 March 1897 · page 6

The Licensing Bench at the Central to-day was occupied by Mr. G. W. F. Addison, S.M., Mr. C. Delohery, S.M. and Mr. F. Penny, L.M…

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Victoria. Suicide of an Hotelkeeper

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1897 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A young man named Alex. Boyd, recently an hotelkeeper at Wycheproof, committed suicide at the Rose of Australia Hotel, West Melbourne, by cutting his throat…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1897 · page 3

The Central Licensing Court weekly meeting was held on Monday. Messrs. Addison and Delohery, S.Ms., and Penny, L.M., presided. Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to James Ramsay,…

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Police Courts. Alleged Theft From an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1897 · page 11

Amy Priscilla Wilson (31), married, was charged, on remand, at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Johnson, S.M., with stealing about £15, the property of Bridget Teresa Lysaght Sadlier, licensee of the…

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Police Courts. Water Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 7

The weekly sitting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, the bench being occupied by Messrs. Johnson and Smithers, S.Ms., and Penny, L.M. A renewal of Ida publican's licenser was granted to Thomas…

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Water Licensing Bench

Evening News · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Water Police Licensing Bench was held yesterday, Mr. Johnson, S.M., presiding. Transfers of publicans' licences were granted as follow: Peter George Dunn to Alexander…

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Assaulting a Publican

Evening News · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 4

At the Newtown Police Court to-day, before Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., Henry Johnson, 22, butcher, ras charged with haying assaulted Alfred William Sharland, and also with wilfully damaging a window…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held at the Water Police Court yesterday. The Bench was occupied by Mr. W. Johnson, S.M. (chairman), Mr. G. Smithers, S.M., and Mr. F…

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Breach of the Licensing Act

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 7

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smitthers, S.M., John P. Danaher, licensee of the Parramatta Hotel, corner of King and Sussex streets, wan proceeded against by Inspector Potter on a charge of wilfully…

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Police Courts. Assault on a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 2

A bntcher named Henry Johnson (22) was charged, at the Newtown Court yesterday, with having assaulted Alfred William Sharland, at Burwood, on the 3rd inst., and also with having broken a window of the Burwood…

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Sobriety Essential! the Perils of Public-house Proprietorship. Details of the Licensing Court's Deliberations on the Transfer of the Volunteer Hotel

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 3

On Friday last the Licensing Bench at Parramatta (consisting of Mr. T. E. McNevin, P.M., and Mr. Neil Stewart, J.P.), resumed their consideration of the application of…

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A Publican's Case. Carbery V. DANAHER. 'Strong' Evidence and a Peculiar Decision

Truth · Sunday 7 March 1897 · page 2

ON Wednesday last, March 3, at the Water Police Court, J. P. Danaher, licensee of the Parramatta Hotel, corner of King and Sussex streets, pleaded not guilty when…

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Central Licensing Court

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held to-day. The bench was occupied by Mr. Addison, S.M. (chairman), Mr. Delohery, S.M., and Mr. Penny. L.M. The following…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 7

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday morning, the bench being occupied by Messrs. Addison, Delohery, and Isaacs, S.Ms., and Penny, L.M. A renewal of his publican's license was…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 7

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

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Police Courts. Conducting a Raffle in an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 March 1897 · page 10

Patrick Donnellan was proceeded against at the Red- fern Court yesterday upon a charge of allowing an illegal game to be carried on at his licensed premises, the Pier Hotel, Botany, on Saturday, February 20, it was…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Thursday 11 March 1897 · page 5

The weekly meeting of the Water Police Licensing Bench was held yesterday, Mr. Johnson, presiding. A number of booth, hawkers and auctioneers' licences, aud music permits were granted…

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Commission on the Sale of an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 March 1897 · page 3

The action Debney v. the National Bank of Australasia, Limited, was before Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury of four in No, 2 Jury Court yesterday. Mr. Shand (solicitor Mr. R. S. Lambton) appeared for the plaintiff,…

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The Sunday School. International Lesson. Sunday, March 21, 1897. Christian Self-restraint. 1 Cor. ix., 19-27. Golden Text (1 Cor. ix, 25).—"Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." Liberty and License

The Methodist · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 16

Christian liberty restrained.—"If meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore " (1 Cor. viii. 13)…

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