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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1903

948 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 48

Licensed Victuallers' Ball

The Australian Star · Friday 26 June 1903 · page 7

The State Governor, Sir Harry Rawson, hits informed the Licensed Victuallers' Association that he has pleasure in according his patronage to the Licensed Victuallers ball,…

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An Abandoned Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 June 1903 · page 8

At a meeting of the Parramatta Incensing Court the police announced thai Thomas Chapman, the licensee of the Exchange Hotel, Granville, had abandoned his hotel, and taken all the furniture away…

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Licensing an Abandoned Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 12

At Wednesday's meeting of the Parramatta Licensing Bench, the police having reported that the licensee of the Royal Exchange Hotel, Granville, had abandoned his hotel and removed…

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A License Abandons his Hotel. "What's Grog?"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 12

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday the matter of the applied-for renewal of the license of a Granville hotel (the Royal Exchange) was called on, among others…

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The Nepean Times. Saturday, June 27, 1903. Local and General a Drive to Irrigation Hotel, Mulgoa.*

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 4

SUNLIGHT Oil Cake, Ford's Poultry Spice, Ground Oyster Shell, Anderson's New Garden Seeds—At Judges Bros.* ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.—It is officially…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday; June 24. (Before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin, S.M., and D. D. Henderson, Licensing Magistrates.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 11

Stephen Guinnery'a licence of the Granville Hotel, Good-street, Granville, was renewed, the police giving the house a good character. Margaret Boden's application for renewal…

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A Warning to a Licensee

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 4

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday, Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.M., gave a licensee a bit of a warning about the repute of his hotel. " I have received complaints,…

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Hotel=keeping on the Grand Scale

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 June 1903 · page 11

In New York they do things on a large basis, and there is hardly a hotel in the world run on a more gorgeous scale than Mr. George C. Boldt's Waldorf-Astoria,…

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Fire in a City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 June 1903 · page 6

Shortly before 10 last evening a fire occurred in a store-room on the third floor of the Empire Hotel, Pitt and Hunter streets. City. The outbreak was extinguished by the fire brigades…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 8

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M. The following transfer of a publican's license was granted:—Charles Smith to William J. Kelly, Smith's…

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Buildings and Works. Some Current Enterprises. City Hotel Improvements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 6

That our hotel accommodation in the city and suburbs is being brought up to a high state of efficiency is the opinion of those whose duty it is to superintend this particular work. Year by year…

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Robbery From an Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1903 · page 8

William Jackson, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Mount Morgan, reported to the police that he had been robbed of a cashbox containing £126 in cash. The money was kept in a bedroom in the top story…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 3

Messrs. Smithers and Wilshire, S. Ms., and A. N. Barnett, D.S.M., preseided at yesterday's sittings of the Water Licensing court. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—John Clarke to Arthur…

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An Hotel Case. Alleged Breach of Agreement

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 5

In the No. 2 Jury, Court today, before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury of four, Edward Magnus brought an action against Robert Moss to recover £590 for alleged breach of…

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Water Licensing Court. An Important Decision

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 6

Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., presided over the usual weekly meeting of the Wafer Police Licensing Court yesterday, and Mr. Wilshire, S.'M., and Mr. Barnett, D.S.M., were…

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Hotels Closed Under Local Option

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 5

In accordance with the result of the local option poll, the reduced hotels at Napier. Dunedin, Caversham. Bruce, Wakonaiti, Awarua. and Invercargill and several districts near…

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Newcastle. Hotel License Refused

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 6

An application was made to the Newcastle Licensing Bench, at the quarterly meeting yesterday, by George Lindsay for a conditional hotel license for premises proposed to be erected at the corner of Parmell-place and…

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An Hotel Case. Alleged Breach of Agreement

The Australian Star · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 6

In No. 2 Jury Court yesterday, before Mr, Justice Pring and a jury of four, Edward Magnus brought an action against Robert Moss to recover £500 for alleged breach of…

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Police Courts. Theft From a Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 8

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. N. Barnett, D.S.M., Frederick Martin. 35. barman, was charged with having [?] on eggstand valued at 25s, the property of Charles James Hughes. Prosecutor, who is…

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The State As a Publican

The Australian Star · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 7

Many of the temperance reformers in the old country, as is well known, aim at the establishment of a State control of the liquor traffic. Two warm advocates of that idea…

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