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Hotels & licensing, 1904

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A Brewery Licensed. Maclean

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 5

A brewer's license has been granted to Joseph Kempnisch for a brewery at Maclean, which has been idle for some years…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 6

The following transfers of hotel licenses Were granted by the Central Licensing Bench yesterday : -- Michael J. Toohey to Francis J. Seage, Foresters' Arms Hotel,…

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Price of Beer. Some Publicans and Brewers' Views

The Australian Star · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 5

The decline in prices of metropolitan [?]ery shares -- the slump amounted to 25 percent. in the case of one brewery -- has been the means of perturbing the wonted…

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Weeding Out the Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 7

A Special Licensing Court, appointed to determine what hotels should be closed in connection with the North Melbourne local option poll, has been sitting for some days. The…

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Proposed New Hotel at Wavurley

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 8

At the quarterly sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday, Charles Finney of Dorothy Villa, Avoca-street, Randwick, a ship's purser applied for a certificate authorising the issue of a publican license for premises…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 7

The quarterly meeting of the Water Licencing Court was held yesterday, the Bench consisting of Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M.(Chairman), Donaldson, S.M., and King, D.S.M. The following transfers of…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 6

The following transfers of hotel licenses were granted by the Water Licensing Bench yesterday: -- Oxford Hotel. Enskine-street, Andrew M. L. Monahan to Louis Gaborlan;…

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Hotel Prosecution

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 8

Max Vermersh, licensee of Northam's Hotel, Wooloomooloo-street was fined £3 and costs of one month's imprisonment at the Water Police Court for wilfully delaying police admittance to his hotel. A constable…

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License for a New Hotel Refused

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 14

The application of Charles Finney, ship's purser, of Dorothy Villa, Avoca-street, Randwick, for a conditional publican's license for premises to be elected at the corner of Thomas and Ocean streets, Waveriey, was refused by…

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Proposed New Hotel at Waverley

Evening News · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 4

The hearing of the application of Charles Finney for a conditional publican's licence for premises overlooking Bronte, at the intersection of St. Thomas and Ocean streets, Waverley,…

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Licensed Cabmen's Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 11

A meeting of the Licensed Cabmen's Union was held at the Trades Hall on Thursday when it was agreed to convene a meeting of all cabmen in the metropolitan area for the…

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Wine Licenses. to the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 12

Sir.—All broad-minded citizens of Parramatta, or any other town or city in the State of New South Wales, have reason to interest themselves in your leader of…

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Hangman and Hotelkeeper

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 January 1904 · page 5

Billington, the English executioner, is about to give up his post as hangman. He has performed his gruesome task for nearly two years, from the time the position…

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Hotel Manager Injured

Evening News · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

The driver of a Balmain tram found an unconscious cyclist lying beside his machine in Ross-street, Forest Lodge, at about 12.30 a.m. on Sunday. The sufferer proved to be Mr. Jack…

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Queensland. Death of an Old Man. Bumped Out of an Hotel. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 8

A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday into the circumstances of the death of John Cole, an old man, who died in the general hospital from the effects of a fracture of the…

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A Glass of Whisky. Hotelkeeper Fined £5

The Australian Star · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 5

Henry Goldsmith, licensee of the Jersey Hotel, corner of Castlereagh and Park streets, city, was proceeded against at the Central Summons Court to-day by…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 8

At the weekly meeting of the Central Licensing [?]urt yesterday, before Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M., C. N. Payten, S.M., and L. S. Donaldson, S.M. the following applications for the transfer of publications'…

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Transfer of Licenses

The Australian Star · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 7

Yesterday at the Central Licensing Court (Messrs. Smithers, Payten, and Donaldson, S.M.'s) the following licenses were transferred: -- Brennan's Melbourne Hotel,…

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Out on License

The Australian Star · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 3

Arthur Lynch, who was convicted of high treason for fighting with the Boers, and whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, has been released on…

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"Colonel" Arthur Lynch. Released on Special License

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 5

LONDON. Monday.--"Colonel" Arthur Lynch, who was elected to represent Galway in the House of Commons, and was subsequently sent to gaol for high treason, has been released on…

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