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Hotels & licensing, 1899

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Assaulting a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 3

At the Central Court yesterday Frederick Bourke (65), a laborer, was charged with assaulting Peter Joseph Brennan. The accused was turned out of the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, Elizabeth and Bathurst streets, city, on…

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Assault on a Publican

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 7

John Thain, 26, cooper, was charged at the Glebe Police Court yesterday with having maliciously damaged two windows at the Australian Youth Hotel, corner of Bay and glebe street, on…

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Licensing Magistrates

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 6

A Government "Gazette" was issued last week reappointing the licensing magistrates of the colony. The step, it appears, was necessary in order that the magistrates should…

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Police Courts. Assaulting a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 8

At the Glebe Court yesterday, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., John Thain (26), cooper, was charged with having maliciously broken two windows ut the Australian Youth Hotel, Bay and Glebe streets, Glebe,…

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Country News. Hotel Premises Burned Down. Nyngan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon premises at Hermidale, the property of Mr. Henry Dutton, sen., and lately occupied as an hotel, were destroyed by fire. The origin of the outbreak is unknown. The coroner…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Thursday 26 January 1899 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Bench was held yesterday before Messrs. Delohery, Love, and Fenny, L.Ms. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:…

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Transfer of a Hotel License

The Australian Star · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 5

The license of the Great Pacific Hotel, at Bondi, was, at tho Water Police Court to-day, transferred from William Reld Gardner to Charles Ashton Smith…

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Fall Over an Hotel Balcony

Evening News · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 6

Among the numerous picnic parties which visited Como yesterday was one of which Mr. John Goode, jan., of Rockdale, was a member. He with several of his friends, paid a visit to the…

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Fall From a Hotel Balcony

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 5

John Goode (25), a resident of Rockdale, met with a very painful accident at the Como Hotel yesterday. He was leaning over the balcony, when he by some means lost his hold and fell to the…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 12

A special sitting of the Water Licensing Court was held yestorday morning, Mr. C. Delohery, S. M., presiding. The transfer of a publican's licence for the Great Pacific Hotel, Bondi, was granted from…

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At the Summer Hotel

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 10

May: And you told your mother that he had been introduced to you? Ethel: Well, he was introduced to me. May: By whom?…

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The Refusal of Wine Licenses. to the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 7

SIR,—I notice by your paper of to-day's issue that two local respectable grocers were refused wine licenses at the last sitting of the Licensing Bench; but in the "Daily…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald

The Central Licensing Court was held to-day, the bench being occupied by Messrs. Edwards S. M., Wilshire, S. M., und Penny, L. M. The following transfers of publicans licenses…

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A Sunday Robbery at Hurstville. a Till Stolen From an Hotel Bar

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon a robbery was effected at Mr. J. J. Payne's Hurstville Hotel and the Contents of the till In the bar, which contained the whole of Saturday's takings, were…

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The Como Hotel Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6

The young man, John Goode, who was admitted to St. George Hospital on Anniversary Day, suffering from severe injuries, the result of a fall from the balcony of the Como Hotel, is in a precarious condition…

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Mine Licenses and Grocers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 7

A great deal of feeling has been evinced locally over the refusal of the Parramatta Bench recently to grant wine licenses to some grocers of the town. The applicants elated that they had no desre or intention of…

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