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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1899

1,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 52

At the Arcadia Hotel. Sudden and Unceremonious Departures

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 5

Like most of the Important city hotels the Arcadia Hotol, which runs through from Pitt-street to Castlereagh -street, is just now fully occupied. The northern side of the hotel abuts…

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Women's Temperance Union. Efforts to Convert Barmaids and Publicans. Systematic Visit to City Hotels. Grocers and Their Christmas Boxes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Sydney women's Christian Temperance Union was held yesterday afternoon at what is known as tho "Rest-hall," Queen Victoria Markets. There was an…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The usual weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday. Mr. Smithers, S.M., presided, and Mr. Wilshire, S.M., and Mr. F. Penny, L.M., were also on the bench. The…

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Licensed Victuallers' Tournament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 9

The fallowing is the draw for the licensed victuallers' billiard tournament, which is to take place at Messrs. Heiron and Smith's billiard showrooms, 216 Castlereagh-street, beginning September 18, at 7.30…

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Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice Walker.) Action Against an Hotelkeeper. Tooth and Co. v. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 3

Mr. Pilcher, Q.C., and Mr. Knox, instructed by Messrs. M'Namara and Smith, for the plaintiff company, Tooth and Co., Limited Mr. Wise, Q.C., and Mr. Langer Owen, instructed by Mr. T…

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An Alleged Slander. Newspaper Canvasser and Publican

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 5

The action instituted by Francis Joseph Burke, a canvasser for the Catholic Newspaper Co., against Henry Dunne, a hotel-Keeper, to recover £1000 damages for alleged…

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A Hotel Dispute. The Question of "Tied" Houses. Important Judgment in Equity

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 6

An Important judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Walker in Equity yesterday in the case of Tooth and Co. v Samuel Parkes, in which points of law arose…

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Tied Houses and the Licensing Law

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 4

In the Equity Court yesterday Mr. Justice Walker delivered a judgment which reduces the Licensing Act of this colony to a practical absurdity. With that, however, the judge…

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The Stepney Hotel. a Brewery Company's Claim

Evening News · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 3

Mr. Justice Walker on Wednesday delivered his reserved-judgment in the matter of the Equity suit Tooth and Company, Limited, v. Parkes. The action was one to restrain the defendant, Samuel…

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Meeting at the Hotel Australia. Indignation in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 5

A considerable gathering of gentlemen assembled in the reading-room of the Hotel Australia yesterday afternoon to consider the verdict and sentence passed on ex-Captain Dreyfus by a tribunal at…

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A Publican Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 8

Yesterday at the Paddington Court Patrick John FitzPatrick, the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, was fined £3, with the alternative of 14 days imprisonment, for selling liquor on Sunday…

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Presentation at the Hotel Australia. the Tribute of Catholics and Non-catholics

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 17

ON Tuesday evening, at the Hotel Australia, his Lordship Dr. Higgins was the recipient of what we may call "the public" address. The gathering was remarkable for the fact that several non-Catholics…

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Conversion of Barmaids and Publicans. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 5

Sir,--Your report of the Sydney Women's Christian Temperance Union possesses interesting reading, mainly because the efforts disclosed are of such a novel character…

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Big Fire in the City. Tivoli Theatre Destoyed Tivoli and Arcadia Hotels Damaged

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 September 1899 · page 8

The Tivoli Theatre, Castlereagh-street, owned and run by Mr. Harry Rickards, who is now touring America and England, was destroyed by fire early on Monday morning…

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Billiards. the Licensed Victuallers' Tournament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 September 1899 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The above will be commenced at Messrs. Heiron and Smith's billiard showrooms, 214 Castlereaghstreet, to-night, when the following heats will be played:—P. Hart v. N. Feltham, M. Bourke v. W…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Evening News

The Central Licensing Court sat yesterday. Messrs. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., and F. Penny were on the bench. Transfers of publicans' licenses were granted as follows:--Guttel Solomon to…

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