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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1900

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Stansell’s Hotel. Improvements in This Popular Resort

The Mosman Mail · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 2

Mr. George Stansell, Proprietor of the hotel at the corner of Vista street and the Military road, has lately been adding entrances to his place of business and…

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Licensing Courts

Evening News · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 3

The annual licensing court for the Redfe[?]trict was held at the local police court [?] There were in all 144 applicants for hawk [?] amongst them being 6 English[?]…

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Annual Licensing Courts. Redfern

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 4

The annual Licensing Court for the district of Redfern was held yesterday at the local courthouse, and was presided over by Mr. Smithers, S.M. There were 144 applications for hawkers' licenses, chiefly…

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Indian Hawkers. Annual License Day. One Hundred and Twenty-five Granted

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 6

The deep-rooted antipathy to the presence of Indian and Syrian hawkers does not find such frequent expression now as a few years ago. About that time complaints were heard…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 3

At the Water Licensing Court yesterday Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, D.S.M., granted nine new billiard licenses and 44 hawkers' licenses, the majority of the latter being to Chinese…

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Transit Commission. the Question of Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 5

The Transit Commissioners sat yesterday, the full board being present, with the Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) in the chair. A report was submitted to the board re the…

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Transit Matters. Reduction of License Fees and Salaries

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

At yesterday's meeting of the Transit Board it was agreed that cab licenses be reduced from 30s to £1 per annum, and omnibus licenses by £1 per annum. Following some…

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The Country Hawkers' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 7

SINGLETON, Wednesday.--Twenty Indians applied for hawkers' licenses at the police court to-day, but the applications were adjourned for a week, the sureties forthcoming being insufficient…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

At the water Liceusiug Court yesterday Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, S.M., granted the transfer of a publican's license from James J. Cook to George Barnes, Commercial Hotel, King-street, Sydney…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Newcastle Licensing Court was held to-day. Messrs. C. H. Payten and L. S. Donaldson, S.Ms., and G. C. Martin, L.M., were in attendance. Sub-inspector Hinds, the…

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Police Courts. Assault in an Annandale Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

At the Glebe Court yesterday, Patrick Curley (26) was charged with assaulting, in company, Edlward Heaney and James Rofe. On Christmas Day, Curley and three other men forced their way into Rofe's Hotel, at Annandale,…

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Quarrel in a Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1900 · page 7

William Walker, aged 45, lienscee of Yarra Hotel, Johnstone-street, Abbotsford, was taken to the hospital this afternoon In a state of collapse, evidently from assault. His condition was…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Evening News

Mr.C.Delohery,S.M. and Mr Edwards, S.M., occupied the bench at the weekly meeting of the Licensing Court yesterday, when the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—…

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Hyde Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 4

At the Licensing Court, before Mi. T. E. MacNevin, P.M,, at Hyde, the following renewals were granted:—George W. Eaton, publican's license, Hampden Hotel, Pennant Hills; Walter Tuchin,…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday under the presidency of Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—Augusta Graham…

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Convictions Under the Licensing Acts

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 7

The following is the return of convictions under the above Acts at the Newtown Police Court for the year 1899:--Convictions for drunkenness only, 401; drunkenness, with disorderly conduct, 296; women convicted of…

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Hotelkeepers As Trustees

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 7

LITHGOW, Wednesday.--Some time back, when the question of the appointment of trustees for the local recreation reserve came up, the council objected to the exclusion of hotelkeepers from…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 7

The adjourned weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, the bench confisting of Messrs. G. H. Smithers S M. (chairman), James Mair, S.M., and W. M. Macfarlane, D.S.M…

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