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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1905

877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 44

Lily of St. Leonards. a Publican's Wife Granted a Separation. for Cruelty and Other Offences

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 1

Henrietta Maria Lawes to-day [?]ought a Judicial separation from Charles William Lawes on the ground of his adultery with a woman named Mrs. Batten at the Lily of St…

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Blind Man. Fell Over a Publican's Door and "Looked" on the Bright Side of Affairs

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 4

A totally blind man named Henry Lee was called into the Central Court this morning to answer a charge of being drunk in Bridge-road. He pleaded guilty…

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Granting New Licenses. Some Interesting Figures

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 March 1905 · page 4

It is only too plain how the residential portion of the metropolitan area has spread within, the present century, its first four years. The increase of population has…

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Sessions Sentence. Assaulting a Publican

The Australian Star · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 4

This morning at the Quarter Sessions William Kline, who was found guilty of assaulting John O'Donnell, a publican, at Pyrmont, on January 30, came up for sentence. In the…

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Katoomba Hotelkeeper. Application to the Full Court

The Australian Star · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 5

Mr. Innes (instructed by Messrs. Lee, Colquhoun, and Bassett, agents for Mr. H, F. Thompson, of Llthgow) had an ex parte application before the Full Court this morning…

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Hotel Introductions

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 10

A young American girl has discovered or invented a new kind of profession, which possesses two qualities that are found but rarely in combination--those of being…

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Hotel Explosion. Britisher Blown to Atoms

Evening News · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.—A Britisher named M'Cullum, who was staying at the Hotel Bristol, near St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, has been blown to atoms…

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Grafton Hotel-keeper. Makes Things "Snug" at Expense of Creditors

Evening News · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 5

The Registrar in Bankruptcy delivered his reserved judgement to-day respecting the certificate application of John Edward O'Keeffe, whose estate wes sequestrated on December…

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Hotelkeeper's Bankruptcy. Judgment of the Registrar. Certificate Suspended

The Australian Star · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 5

The Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. A. Henry) delivered his reserved judgment this morning in the matter of the certificate application of John Edward O'Keefe. He said…

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Big Prices for Occupation Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 6

CONDOBOLIN, Saturday.--At the sale of occupation licenses on the Melrose and Boona holdings big prices were realised owing to tho scarcity of grass. Lot 162, of 44,500 acres,…

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Two Bottles of Wine. Charge of Selling Liquor Without a License

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 3

In the presence of Mr. King, D.S.M., at North Sydney Police Court Herbert Jones and Albert Merryfull each denied having sold liquor without a license at Miller-street,…

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Selling Liquor Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 3

At the North Sydney Court, Herbert Jones, a grocer, of Miller-street, was proceeded against by the police for selling liquor without a license, the offence consisting of a said of a bottle of colonial wine. The defendant was…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 5

The following transfers of publicans' licences were granted by the Water Police Licensing Court to-day:—Moore Park' View Hotel, Dowling-street, from William Nyman to John Nyman…

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The Drink Problem. Should Barmaids Be Abolished? Proposal to Close Hotels at 6 P.M.

Evening News · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 4

A few of the things which, in their opinion, the Chief Secretary ought to provide for in his new Liquor Bill, were brought under the Minister's attention to-day, by a deputation from the…

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Music Without a License

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 7

Mr. Macfarlane, S.M., at Redfern Court, fined Thomas Miller, licensee of the Waterworks Hotel, Botany-road, Botany, £1 and costs for permitting music on his licensed…

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Licenses Transferred

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted by the Water Licensing Court:--William Cadden to John Kiely, Commercial Hotel, King-street, Sydney; Daniel…

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Police Courts. Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 3

Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., presidid yesterday at the Water Licensing Court, and grunted the following transfers of publicans' licenses.—William Cadden to John Kiely, Commercial Hotel, King-street; Daniel…

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Acknowledgment. Baden Powell Hotel, Camperdown

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 30

Dear Playmate,—I beg to thank you for the handsome prize you have awarded me in connection with your "Conundrum Competition." After reading that I was the…

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The Hotel Explosion. Facts About the Victim. LONDON, Wednesday, 2.55 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 1

It transpires that the real name of the supposed Britisher, M'Cullough, who was recently blown to atoms at the Hotel Bristol, St. Petersburg, was Naumann, and that he…

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Hotel Manager's Wife Finds Ring in an Apple

The World's News · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 15

At a recent dinner party given at a New York hotel, Ernest L. Thesierea, the proprietor, reversed the Adam and Eve apple transaction, of historic memory, by presenting a magnificent…

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