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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1905

877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 44

A Publican's Death. Verdict of Manslaughter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1905 · page 3

At the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Saturday, the Acting City Coroner held an inquest in connection with the death of James McCregor, late licensee of the White Swan Hotel, Rose-street, Darlington, which…

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Publican's Fatal Fall Seaman Committed for Manslaughter

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1905 · page 7

The Circumstances connected with the untimely death of James M'Gregor, licensee of the White Swan Hotel, Rose -street, caused by injuries received on Thursday night, were…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 9
Also in The Australian Star

The Central Licensing Court, Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., presiding, yesterday granted the following transfers:—James Smith to Jeremiah O'Brien, White Horse Hotel, St. Peters, Henry O. Wortley to…

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Hotel Case. Application for License. at the Central Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 6

The Central Licensing Bench sat yesterday, the bench being occupied by Mr. Smithers (in the chair), Mr. Isaacs, and Mr. Macfarlane…

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Trapping a Publican Sergeant Samples Beer on the Floor

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 5

At Newtown Police court to-day, before Mr. C.N. Payten, S.M., Sub-inspector Broederick proceeded against Harry Crichton, licensee of the Park View Hotel, West-Street, Petersham…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 7

The Water Licensing Court yesterday granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Joseph Pauchon to Paul Buchholz, Como Hotel, Como; Harry Roberts to John Hannahan, Royal Oak Hotel,…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire. a Sensational Incident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 6

Early to-day the Southern Cross Hotel, Maryborough, was burnt. The occupants of the hotel had a narrow escape, and some received slight injuries. Mr. Coghlan, of…

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Theft From an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 9

At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, before fore Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.M., Arthur Ward, described as a canvasser, was sent to gaol for two months' hard labor, for stealing tumblers from…

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Hotel for Children. Rooms at £30 a Week

Evening News · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 8

An hotel which is to be built in New York is intended exclusively for the use of children. It will be called the St. Elizabeth. Boys will be admitted up to the age of 14…

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Old Hands in Crime. Tutors of the Young Hoodlum. Some Rotten Hotels. a Dangerous Growing Element

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 1

"Of late a rotten and gutter-snipe section of the community which, for the past eight or ten years has been, if in actual existence, at least unnoticed has been growing up in…

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Hawking Without a License

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 8

Albert Bates, of Great Buckingham-street, Redfern, pleaded guilty at- Newtown Court! to having at Marrickville, on the 6th inst., carried on the business of a hawker without…

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Licenses Transferred

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1905 · page 7

At the Central Police Court Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., approved the following applications for transfer of publicans' licenses being granted: -- Herbert J. Blair to…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 4

The Central Licensing Court has granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Herbert R. B[?] to Frederick J. Fuller, Hotel Hopetoun, King-street; Thomas Monaghan to James O'Sullhan, Cheerful Home…

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Transfers of Licenses

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted at the weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court yesterday: -- Thomas J. Smith to Edward Francis, Union…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 7

Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., presided yesterday at the weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court, and granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:— Frederick J. Smith to Edward Francis, Unicorn Hotel,…

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"Scaling" a Publican. And Attacking Inoffensive People. Fourteen Days for a Drink

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 1

As familiarity breeds contempt, so does immunity from proper chastisement generate in the mind of the unchecked a disposition to take on too much leg-rope. Such a case…

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Vaucluse. in Municipal Revolt. Outside Foulke's Hotel

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 5

Had that energetic Mayoral functionary, Alderman Johnson, of the borough of Vaucluse, chanced to come within fighting range of the indignation meeting of discontented…

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Sporting Publican. DROPPED £500 on a Fight

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

James Ryan, a bankrupt, 28 years of age, examined, before the Registrar, threw some interesting light upon the lot of a publican. He was, he said, the licensee of the Miners' Arms…

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Hotelkeeper Summoned. Pea Shelling In a Bar

The Australian Star · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 6

Ashur Hart, licensee of the Grand View Hotel, Oatley-road and Oxford-street, Paddington, was proceeded against at the local police court on an information which…

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