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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1902

1,166 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 59

Good Templars and the Licensing Bill. Amendments Asked For

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 December 1902 · page 3

A committee of the political council and electoral representatives of the Independent Order of Good Templars met on Thursday evening to consider the line of action to be taken in connection…

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Liquor Act for Rarotonga. One Hotel to Be Established

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 December 1902 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- The Rarotonga Council has passed an Act to control the importation and sale of liquor. In response to a European petition for a hotel to accommodate…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 7

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., presiding, Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, D.S.M., and Mr. A. N. Barnett, L.M. The following transfers of…

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The Western Lands. Provisional Rental Determined. for Pastoral Leases and Occupation Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 4

As announced by tho Minister for Lands a short time age, the Western Laud Commissioners have completed their work of determining the provisional rental for the whole of the pastoral…

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The Licensing Bill. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 4

Sir, -- I hope no attempt will be made to push this bill through this session. Fearing another instance of "more hurry the less speed" -- that is, from a temperance standpoint -- let the thing…

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Suspension of a Hotel License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 5

The Licensing Court to-day disqualified the Crown Hotel, Swanston-street, for one year, as the license had been forfeited for three convictions against the licensee. In other words, the…

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Medals for Good Hotels

The World's News · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 19

The Touring Club of France has announced that in future it will give medals to proprietors of hotels who have installed notable hygienic improvements, conducing to the comfort of…

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Hotel Fire in Chicago. Fourteen People Killed. London, Dec. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 11

A disastrous fire occurred in the Lincoln Hotel, Chicago, yesterday. Fourteen people perished in the flames, and 53 others were injured…

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Hotel Fire in Chicago. Fourteen Persons Perish

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 9

LONDON, Friday.--As the result of a fire at the Lincoln Hotel, Chicago, 14 persons perished and 53 others were more or less seriously injured…

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Adams' Tattersall's Hotel

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 December 1902 · page 3

From year to year the only differences in this fine establishment in Pitt and George streets are its improvements. During this year Mr. George Adams has added…

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The Proposed Licensing Law. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 December 1902 · page 2

Sir,--It seems to me, and to most of the people to whom I have spoken, that the general public have, at best, but a hazy idea of the Licensing, Bill, the principal clauses of which…

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Centrai Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 7

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday, before Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M. (presiding), C. N. Payten, S.M., and A. N. Barnett, [?].M…

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A Lucky Publican. and an Astonished Thief

Evening News · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 6

Thieves, as well as other people, have bad luck occasionally. An instance of this occurred yesterday morning in Liverpool-street. W. J. Kearns, licensee of the Bulli Pass Hotel, at Thirroul,…

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Licensing Inspector

Evening News · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 6

Though It has not yet been officially announced, Sub-inspector Hughes, of No. 3 (Darlinghurst) Police Station, will succeed Inspector Sutherland (promoted to the control of the Tamworth police…

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Three Publicans Fined. for Breaches of the Liquor Act

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 3

Charles James Roberts, licensee of Roberts' Hotel, George and Market streets, was yesterday summoned at the Central Court, before Mr. Payten, S.M., on information charging him with…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 9

FORBES, Tuesday. -- Dean's Railway Hotel was totally destroyed by fire last night, through the bursting of a lamp in the parlor. The furniture was nearly all saved. The building was the…

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Booth Licenses

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 1

Three booth licenses were granted to Alfred Harvey, licensee of the Racecourse Hotel, for the Rosehill rececourse on Saturday, 13th inst…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 4
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At yesterday's meeting of the Water Licensing Court a transfer of license was granted from Joseph Cheneval to Tomas O'Toole, Chicago Hotel, Georgestreet North…

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The Charge Against a Publican. Two Bodies Exhumed. London, Dec. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 7

The bodies of two wives of a publican named Chapman, at Southwark, have been exhumed. On November 26 it was cabled that Chapman had…

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