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Hotels & licensing, 1900

711 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 36

Water Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 July 1900 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court yesterday was presided over by Messrs. F. S, Isaacs, S.M., J. Mair, S.M., and F. Penny, L.M. The bench granted the following…

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Fire at the Tivoli Hotel

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 July 1900 · page 5

Late last night a fire broke out in a pantry at the Tivoli Hotel. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade were summoned, but before they arrived the inmates of the hotel had extinguished…

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The Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 8

The weekly meeting of the Newcastle Licensing Court was held to-day. An application by Joseph Tranter to transfer the license of Trauter's Family Hotel, Cook's Hill, to Neil Watt, was granted. The…

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Water Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 5

Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., sat as a Licensing Court to-day, at the Water Police Court, and granted a transfer of the license of the Rifle Butts Hotel, Flinders- street, Sydney, from…

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The "Hotel Barber" Trick

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 9

It will be remembered that early last month, Mr. Charles Kenningham, the well-known operatic tenor, reported to the police that a sum of £15 had been abstracted from his room in a city hotel. Detectives…

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Police Courts. Robbery at Roberts' Hotel. Man Committed for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 July 1900 · page 14

Frederick Weeks (35), was charged at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Wilshire, S.M., with having, on June 12 last, stolen £15 in cash, the property of Chas. Kenningham, from a bedroom in Roberts' Hotel,…

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Gutter Groggeries. Chloe's Cunning Carters. Single Bottles For parried Ladies. Littered Under Mercury—Mysteries of Elausis—Falstaff and Bardolph—Carters Could Make Revelaltions—Kicked Out of Hotels—How Wholesale Houses Break The Law—Snake Juice and Tanglefoot—Young Girls Serve in Shops—More Revelations to Come

Truth · Sunday 29 July 1900 · page 5

THAT questionable character, Autolycus, who was "littered under Mercury," and was likewise "a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," in a mood of lusty indifference to…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees

The Australian Star · Monday 30 July 1900 · page 8

At the meeting of the Hotel Club and Restaurant Employees' Union, on Monday evening last, it was decided to hold an organising meeting of the trade in the Queen's Hall,…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 July 1900 · page 8
Also in The Australian Star, The Sydney Morning Herald

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday, before Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M. (chairman). E. H. Wilshire. S.M., and F. Penny, L.M. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were…

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Theft From an Hotel

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 July 1900 · page 7

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday the [?]ory in the case in which Edward Cox and Frank Ward were charged with stealing in a dwelling at the Glebe, on the 18th of last…

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Report From Goolma. an Hotel Stuck Up

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 9

STUART TOWN, Tuesday.--News is to hand that the Breelong blacks were seen at Yamble, on the Mudgee River, to-day. Constable Wyer and a body of armed civilians left for there this…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Friday, July 27. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 4

Charles Shepherd, licensee of the Park Gate Hotel, applied for a music permit, for a concert proposed to be given at his hotel on Saturday evening in connection with tho termination of…

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Lester's Town Hall Hotel

The Elector · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 12

Something like an up to-date hotel has lifted its head at the corner of George and Park streets, a historic spot for business, as almost any man in the…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Movement to Found an Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 August 1900 · page 8

A public meeting of persons employed in hotels, clubs, and restaurants was held in the Queen's Hall, Fitt-street, last night. Mr. T. J.Thrower, president of the Sydney Labour Council, was in…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees. And the Early Closing Act

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 August 1900 · page 7

At a meeting of hotel, club, and restaurant employees, held last night at the Queen's Hall, Plit-street, the following resolution, which it was decided should be sent to the Minister…

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The Early Closing Act. Meeting of Hotel and Restaurant Employees

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 August 1900 · page 6

A mass meeting of hotel, club, aud restaurant employees was held at the Queen's-hall (late Temperance-hall), Pitt-street, last night, to protest against their exclusion from the provisions…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 3

The weelky meeting of the Central Court was held yesterday. Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M., C. W. Payten, S M., W. M., Macfarlane, D.S.M., and F. Penny, L.M., presiding. The following transfers of publicans' licenses…

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