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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1899

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Licensing Dispute at Mosman

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 6

Mosman is at the present time divided against, itself, and some bitterness is being displayed. It has all arisen from tho fact that an application has boon lodged for a conditional license for a…

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Attempted Hotel Robbery

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 4

An attempt has been made to rob Drake's Hotel, Mount and Walker streets, North Sydney. The intending thieves entered unseen by the hotel hall, and went upstairs to Mr…

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One of the Proposed Hotels. WE [?] MR. G. B. Kelly Has to Say About It

The Mosman Mail · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 3

In consequence of the agitation in Mosman with reference to the hotel that Mr. G. B. Kelly proposes to build on the Military Road, near Mr. Wise’s butcher…

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Hotels and Petitions

The Mosman Mail · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 2

Petitions in favour of two hotels, and a petition against one of them, are being actively canvassed from house to house in Mosman, and on the ferry boats. One of…

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Milk Vendors' Licenses. a Novel Point

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1899 · page 2

A somewhat novel point in connection with milk vendors' licenses, cropped up at the meeting of the St. Peters Council on Thursday evening. The sanitary inspector (Mr. Mackintosh) reported that Mr. William…

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Interesting to Licensees

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 5

Many hotelkeepers, theatre lessees, and others have erected lavatories at their establishments for the convenience of their patrons, the public. Several of these have written to the Water and…

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Alien Races and Hawkers Licenses. the Immigration Restriction Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 4

The Redfern Police Court, as is usual on the first Court day in the New Year, presented quite an animated appearance yesterday morning, the occasion being the holding of the annual Licensing Court for…

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Transit Commission. Suggested Amended License Regulations

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 4

The Transit Commissioners met today, when the chairman (his Worship the Mayor of Sydney), submitted several written suggestions with reference to the regulations for…

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Hawkers and Their Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 8

Yesterday morning, at the Redfern Court. 167, seekers after hawkers licences were [?] before the S.M. Mr. Edwards and sent to the right about with bewildering [?] Several of the applicants whose knowledge…

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Larceny From a Hotel'

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 9

At the Ryde Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., Elijah Pollard and Thomas Stenton, two residents of the Thornleigh district, were charged with stealing nine bottles of ale, the…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court yesterday, the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:--Henry Truelove to Emily Hughes, Enmore Hotel, Edgeware-road, Newtown; Edmond Doyle…

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Newtown Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Licensing Court for the petty sessions district of Newtewn was held yesterday at the Newtown Police Court. Mr. Edwards, S.M., presided. Applications from the…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Police Division of the Metropolitan Liceusing Court was held yesterday. Messrs. Smithers and Wilshire, S.Ms., and F. Penny, L.M., occupied the bench. The…

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Publicans Fined

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 6

In the summons division of the Water Police Court to-day James O'Malley, licensee of the College Hotel, Francis-street, for keeping his premises open on Christmas Day, and…

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Licensing Courts

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 6

The Water Licensing Bench to-day granted a transfer of colonial wine licenses from John Augustus O'Shea to Henry Meyer, 247 George-street, and from Charles Thorpe to…

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Police Courts. Newtown Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

At the Newtown Court yesterday, Air. Edwards, S.M., dealt with a number of applications for licenses. Auctioneers' special general licenses were granted to the following:--Robert Francis Murphy, Septimus Charles…

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Licensing Prosecution

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 3

Several of the publicans in the eastern suburbs are in trouble with the local police. At the Paddington Police Court to-day, a number of cases were post-poned. Arthur Bell, barman at the Prince of "Wales'…

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Sale of Sewing Machines Must Travelling Agents Be Licensed

Evening News · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 7

TAMWORTH, Friday.—An important case, under the Hawkers and Pedlars Act, cropped up at the Nundle Police Court yesterday, when the police summoned a sewing machine agent named…

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Fire at Murrumburrah. The Shamrock Hotel Destroyed. MURRUMBURRAH

The Australian Star · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 2

A fire broke out early this morning, which completely destroyed the old Shamrock Hotel buildings. It being windy at the time, the houses in the immediate vicinity narrowly…

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