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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1900

711 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 36

Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 4

At the Central Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, C. N. Paston, S.Ms., W. M. Macfarlane, D.S.M., and F. Penny, L.M., the following applications for transfers of publicans'…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 August 1900 · page 3

At the Water Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Mr. Payten, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M., the followiug applications for transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—Michael…

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The Hotel Australia Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 August 1900 · page 10

The annual ball promoted by the employees of the Hotel Australia was held last night at Leigh House. There was a large attendance, and the evening proved a most enjoyable one. The hall…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Monday 13 August 1900 · page 6

The Central Licensing Court sat to-day, the bench being occupied by Messrs. Isaacs, S.M. (presiding), Mair, S.M.. and Penny, L.M. The following transfers were granted :--Walter…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 August 1900 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph, The Australian Star

At the Central Licensing Court yesterday, held before Messrs. F. S. Isaacs, 8 M., J. Mair, S.M., and F, Penny, L.M., the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:—…

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The Poor Publican

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 August 1900 · page 4

Messrs. Waddell and Price, by separate, but almost identical, notices of motion, invite attention to the amounts annually paid by publicans as license fees, with the object of…

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Proposal to License Sharebrokers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 August 1900 · page 5

A deputation, from the Melbourne Stock Exchange waited on the Attorney-General to-day to strongly oppose the bill recently introduced into the Legislative Assembly for the licensing of stock…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 August 1900 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph, The Australian Star

At the weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court yesterday, betore Mr. Smithers, S.M., Mr. Wilshire, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M., the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 August 1900 · page 4

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Stephen Murphy, P.M., the license of the Commercial Hotel was trau-ferred from Charles Rawlinson to Stephen Rawlinson…

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The Fugitive Murderers. Pot Shots at Pursuing Police. Unsympathetic Hotelkeepers

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 August 1900 · page 5

Once more the police have come up with the fugitive blackfellows. This time it was at Georagilla Creek, eleven miles from Mud-gee. They did not catch them, of course;…

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Police Courts. Assaulting a Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 14

At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. Edwards, S.M., Daniel Green (28). laborer; William Charters, alias O'Brien (28), j[?]ey; and Robert Russell (35), Laborer, were charged with assaulting John Latimer, the licensee…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday, August 15. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 5

The license of the Commercial Hotel was transferred from Chas. Rawlinson (executor of the late Mrs. Rawlinson) to Stephen Rawlinson…

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Every Man His Own Publican. Novel Experiment Being Tried in a Hampshire Village

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 August 1900 · page 5

Grayshett, Hants (Eng.), is a little colony of literary and artistic folk, who live in red-brick villas on the kopjes that abound in this picturesque district. The place is…

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Hotel Disturbance. the Licensee Assaulted

Evening News · Monday 20 August 1900 · page 3

A disturbance occurred at the Hampshire Hotel, George-street, Camperdown, on Thursday evening, when the licensee (Mr. John Latimer) and Mrs. Latimer narrowly escaped serious injury…

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Sudden Death in a Hotel. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Monday 20 August 1900 · page 6

There died rather suddenly in the shorthand Hotel today a young man named Thomas Lionel Shaw Carrington. He was barely 23 years of age, and was a native of…

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Robbed in a Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 August 1900 · page 6

Mr. John A. Notley, who only arrived in Sydney from England on Saturday last, had not been ashore 24 hours when he encountered the worst side of the population…

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