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Hotels & licensing, 1899

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 6

The licensing bench, sitting at the Water Police Court to-day, granted transfers of publicans' licenses from Charles Goldsmith to Joseph Weaver, Royal Standard Hotel,…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 5
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The adjourned quarterly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, the bench being occupied by Messrs. C. Delohery, G. H. Smithers, J. Mair, S.Ms., and F. Penny, L.M. The following…

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Police Courts Water Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

The adjourned quarterly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, when Messrs. Delohery, Smithers, and Mair, S.Ms., and F. Penny, L.M., were present on the Bench…

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Parramatta Licensing Court

Evening News · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the Parramatta Licensing Court was held to-day before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin and C. J. Byrnes, L.Ms. The usual list of renewals was granted. The bench…

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An Hotel Prosecution

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

With reference to the charge, under the Licensing Act, against Charles Kirk, of the Boundary Hotel, Alexandria, heard at the Redfern Court on Tuesday, the licensee writes contradicting the report that five…

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Abandons the Labor Cause. Tom Mann Becomes a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. Tom Mann, the president of the International Transport Workers' Federation, and founder of the Dockers Union, has purchased a…

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Kellyville and the Wine License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 3

The determined opposition to the granting of a wine license for Mr. Schofield's house at Kellyville led to its being refused a few months since, the occasion of the hearing being remembered as…

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Breaches of the Licensing Act

The Australian Star · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 5

John O'Brien, licensee of Lloyd's Hotel, Brumby-street, was fined £2, with 5s 6d costs at the Central Police Court to-day for selling liquor on Sunday last, and Michael Bagott,…

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Parramatta and District. Quarterly Licensing Report

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 3

At the quarterly meeting of the Parramatta Licensing Court yesterday before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., and C. J. Byrnes, J.P., the report of Inspector Latimer on the licensed houses of…

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A Licensing Law Point

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 3

A somewhat peculiar point arose in the Parramatta Licensing Court yesterday. A firm of grocers which had previously been refused a colonial wine license had given notice of…

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Police Courts Breaches of the Licensing Act. Marrickville Publicans Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 4

Three cases, in which were involved several nice points relative to the operations of the Licensing Act, were heard yesterday at the Newtown Court, before Mr. Isaacs, S.M…

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Hotel Licenses

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 910

Mr. Wardell, M.L.A., has given notice of his intention to move in the Assembly the following motion:—" 1. The provision of the Licensing Act which requires each hotelkeeper to pay…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., and C. J. Byrnes, L.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 2

The Quarterly Licensing Court, Parramatta was held on Thursday morning. The renewal of Christian Klippert's wine license was granted, as was also that of…

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The St. Patrick's Day Fire in New York. Total Destruction Op a Magnificent Hotel. Terrible Deaths and Miraculous Escapes. a Careless Smoker's Match

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 7

The terrible tire in New York on St. Patrick's Day threw a funeral pall over the rejoici[?]gs. The afternoon was mild and sunny, and the long and brilliant procession of Irish societies marching up…

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Licensing Prosecutions. Magistrate and Solicitor

Evening News · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 3

At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. F. S. Isascs, S.M., John William Lewis, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Enmore-road, Marrickville, was proceeded against on an information…

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The Windsor Hotel Fire

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 923

American papers received by the mail contain a long account of the disastrous fire at the Windsor Hotel. New York, on March 17. The fire started, according to the beat information, in…

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Licensing Prosecutions at Balmain

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 6

At the Balmain Police Court yesterday before Mr. F, w. Edwards, S.M., John Hare, licensee of the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Hotel, at Evans-street, Balmain, was charged with…

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Death of a Prominent Hotel-keepers

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 6

The Licensed Victuallers have lost an important member from their ranks in the person of Mr. E. J. Wehlow, who died at the private hospital or Dr. Bowker at…

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Marrickville Publicans Fined

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 6

William Newman, the licensee of the Hotel Victoria, Marrickville, was summoned by Sub-inspector Elliott at the Newtown Police Court yesterday on a charge of having, at 11.20…

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