No-license Poll. Temperance Party's Analysis. Wellington (N.z.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 8
Speaking at a public meeting to-night, the Rev. F. W. Isitt, general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, said that the no-license party had not received a set-back, though…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 11
At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Monday, before Mr. T. E. MocNevin, S.M., the license of the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was transferred from Miss E. M. Haydon to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Licensing Committee. Was It Libelled? Mr. Russell Acquitted. London, Monday, 3.15 p.m
The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 1
Mr. Edward Russell, of the Liverpool "Post," has been acquitted at the Assizes on a charge of criminal libel, contained in an article accusing a section of the Licensing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hotel Club Award. An Extension Granted. Protest of Restaurant-keepers
The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 6
There was a vigorous opposition on the part of Mr. Hart, a restaurant-keeper, when an application was made in the Arbitration Court yesterday to an extension of the…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 7
At Redfern Court yesterday Sub-Inspector Roche proceeded against Michael Galvin, licensee of the Iron Duke Hotel, Botany-road, Waterloo, for allowing persons of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Licensing Act. Charge Against Sir Edward Russell
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 9
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Sir Edward Richard Russell, editor of the "Liverpool Daily, Post," has been acquitted at the Liverpool Assizes of a charge of libel, arising…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Liquor Bill. From the Publican's Point of View. "Local Optionists Have Defeated Themselves." How It Will Operate
Evening News · Thursday 14 December 1905 · page 6
Although the Royal assent to the Liquor Bill (a mere formality) has not yet been announced, the fact that the measure was finally passed by both Houses of Parliament during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Option in New Zealand. the Recent Poll. Analysis of the Voting. No-license Party Disappointed
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 December 1905 · page 5
WELLINGTON, December 8.--If the result of the parliamentary elections was almost stupefying to oven the most optimistic of the Government, the local option poll was no less so to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hotels Changed Hands
Evening News · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 3
The Central Licensing Bench has granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:— Lady of the Lake Hotel, Bay-street, Glebe, from Denis M'Inerney to John Seery; Burkitts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stamping Hotel Leases. a Phenomenal Rush. Record at the Stamp Duties Office
Evening News · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 7
"Is the Commissioner in?" "Yes, sir; but he is engaged." "Will he be long?" "I hardly know, sir; he has his door locked. As a matter of fact, he is not seeing the public just…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About Notable People. M. Lo[?]'s License
Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2
Even the President of the French Republic is not exempt from the formalities governing the actions of his poorest subjects. He recently went to Rambonillet for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mystery of a Wealthy Lady. Disappears From an Hotel Under Strange Circumstances. Fruitless Search
The World's News · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 18
An extraordinary story came to light on November 2 of the disappearance of an elderly lady from a London hotel some weeks before. It appears that in the latter part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Receivers of Stolen Goods. Hotelkeeper and His Wife
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 14
In the Court of General Sessions to-day Albert Russell Lott, aged 60, hotelkeeper, and Annie Lott, his wife, were sentenced to three years on a charge of receiving stolen goods…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Right Round the World Glacier Station and Hotel
The St George Call · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 8
The scenery of this region which has been aptly described as the Switzerland of Canada, is superb, and in keeping with its natural beauties is the beautiful hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hotel Tragedy. Commercial Traveller Shoots Himself. Leaves Letters Behind. [By Telegraph.] SINGLETON
The Australian Star · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 9
A commercial traveller named Guest shot himself in the Imperial Hotel last night. He had lately been employed by Mr, Collins, a merchant of Narrabri, and it is supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"No-license" at Invercargill
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 9
All the absent votes being accounted for, the result of the local option poll at Invercargill has been announced as follows: -- Valid votes, £483; continuance, 2573; reduction, 3409;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Parramatta Licensing Court Wednesday 13Th December. (Before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin. S. M. and C. J. Byrnos. J. P. Licensing Magistrates)
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 6
The license of Thorpe's hotel Strath-field was renewed The license of the Royal Exchange hotel Parramatta was transferred from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Liquor Problem. Local Option in New Zealand. the Recent Poll. Is the No-license Wave Receding? Partial Recovery by the Trade. the Moderate Party Speaks. Wellington, Dec. 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 December 1905 · page 5
The results of the local option poll on the question of the liquor traffic, taken simultaneously with the vote for Parliamentary candidates, are too incomplete at present to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newsboy Sent to Gaol for Assaulting a Publican
The Australian Star · Monday 18 December 1905 · page 4
The eleventh hour had passed by ten minutes[?]on Saturday night, when a newsboy his hair on end and his face all streaked, crave a drink from John Smith, licensee of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Leases and Stamp Duty
Evening News · Tuesday 19 December 1905 · page 7
Mr. A. James writes:—According to a recent issue of the "Evening News" there was a rash, on the Commissioner for Stamps during last week. This rush was due to the fact that Mr [?] upon their leases before a certain date, to obtain the privilege of the "compensation clause" of the new Liquor Act. As the compulsory payment of stamp duty in all cases of…
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