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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1905

877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 44

Country Hotel Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 6

TEMORA, Wednesday.--The Springdale Hotel, at Springdale, was burnt to the ground last night. It was a wooden structure, and was owned by Mr. Thomas Corby. The cause of the…

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South Australia. Licensing of Clubs

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In the House of Assembly Mr. Tucker moved the second reading of the bill to regulate the licensing of clubs, many of which, he said, were mere drinking…

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The Liquor Laws. the Bill Further Criticised. Second Reading Carried by 53 to 14. Alterations Foreshadowed by Mr. Wade. Majority Provision to Be Re-cast. Graduation Op Licensing Fees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 5

The second reading debate on the Liquor Bill was continued in the Legislative Assembly, yesterday. Mr. M'FARLANE said he was in favour of…

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One Bottle Hotels

Evening News · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 8

Mr. Andy Kelly, when he spoke on the second reading of the Liquor Bill, in the Legislative Assembly, mentioned "one bottle" hotels, and Mr. M'Laurin confessed that he did not know…

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Conscientious Hotel-Keeper. CHRISTCHURCH, September 22

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 6

An unusual application—the first made under the Act of 1904 here—was made to the Christchurch Licensing Committee on September 22 Mr. Jacob Levien, the licensee of the Souther…

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Licensed Surveyors

The Australian Star · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2
Also in The Daily Telegraph

At a recent examination held to determine the qualifications of candidates for license to survey Crown lands in this State the following gentlemen were found by the board of…

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The Licensing Bill

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 4

The Attorney-General made an excellent speech in moving the second reading of the Licensing Bill. Aiming to minimise the evils of…

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Chloroform and Rob Rich Tourists. Fashionably-dbessed Thieves in European Hotels

The World's News · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 16

Inquiries made at various points on the Continent fully confirm statements made in the "Lancet" recently to the effect that up-to-date hotel thieves in Italy have adopted the use of…

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Aaron's Exchange Hotel

Le Courrier Australien · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 4

Parmi les hôLelx de première classe de Sydney, l'Exchange Hotel est un de ceux qu laissent aux visitenrs un agriable souvenir. Situè dans l'immouble du Royal Exchange…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday October 4. (Before Messrs. T. e. MacNevin. S.M. C. J. Byrnes, and S. Chatfield, L.M's.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 6

Arthur Charles Maish's application for a colonial wino licence was remanded to the Burwood Licensing Court. William F. Bell's application for. the…

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Woollahra Sports Club. Police Oppose the License. What the Aldermen Say

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

The Woollahra Council, at its meeting last night, again had under consideration the application of P. Carew, secretary of the Woollahra Sports Club, Ltd., for a license for the…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 6

At the Central Licensing Court on Monday, before Messrs. Smithers, Isaacs, and Payten, S.[?]s., the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:— Susan Toy to O[?]kar Marcusson, Excelsior Hotel,…

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A Wine License Matter. Renewal Granted by the Bench

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 7

The Licensing Bench, consisting of Messrs. G. H. Smithers, C. N. Payten, and L. S. Donaldson, S.M.'s, sat at the Central Court yesterday to hear an application for…

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A Publican's Death

Evening News · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 8

The death of Auton Swanson, 43, licenses of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Cooper and Raglan streets, Waterloo, formed the subject of an inquest by the City Coroner. It was stated by…

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Hotelkeeper Fined

The Australian Star · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 6

At the Paddington Police Court, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Mary Doyle was proceeded against for permitting music on a part of her licensed premises open to the…

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Death of a Publican

The Australian Star · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 6

The death of Anton Swanson, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterloo, formed the subject of an inquest by the City Coroner yesterday…

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A License Transferred

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 October 1905 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday the Licensing Bench granted an application for the transfer of a publican's license from Clara E. Simpson to Robert Blisdell for the…

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Second-hand Dealers Should They Be Licensed? Judge Docker Thinks

Evening News · Tuesday 17 October 1905 · page 4

Harris Aronoff, who had been found guilty of receiving a number of bicycle lamps, the property of Brandt Brothers, well knowing the same to have been stolen, was brought up for…

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Hotel Furniture. Claim Against a Brewery

Evening News · Tuesday 17 October 1905 · page 5

An action, in which M. De Lissa and Company, Limited, sued Marshall's Co-operative Breweries, Limited, to recover ,£14 7s, for bedding supplied to the Austral Club Hotel street, occupied the attention of Judge Murray, in the district court, to-day. The defendant's case was that some new tenants were going into the hotel, and it was…

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