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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1906

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Quoits. Hotel Royal Edward Ground

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 July 1906 · page 7

The following heats were played yesterday in the Hotel Royal Edward Second Handicap: -- R. Page (18) beat T. Smith (23) by 7; H. Barnes (25) beat H. Burns (22) by 3. In…

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The Royal George. Selling and Hotel

The Australian Star · Monday 9 July 1906 · page 5

In the District Court today, before Judge Murray, Peter John Petersen, hotel keeper, and Joseph Alexander Flemming, engineer, sued Ivan Henry to recover £28, which they…

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Hotel Cases

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 1

Before Mr. Macfarlane in the Summons Division Of the Water Police Court today Bertram A. Stenning, licensee of the Chicago Hotel, George-street North, was fined £5 and…

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Robbery in a Hotel

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 6

A widow named Mary Clarke, or Radburn, pleaded not guilty at the Central Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a chain purse, containing two sovereigns and a…

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DISTRICT. (Before Judge Murray.) Sale of an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 10

Peter John Peterson, hotelkeeper, and Joseph 'Alexander Flemming, engineer, brought a suit against Ivan Henry for the recovery of £28, which they alleged had been paid to him, to be…

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Robbery at a Hotel

Evening News · Wednesday 11 July 1906 · page 4

Miss Eliza Leighton has reported the loss of several articles of jewellery, valued at about £ 10, to the No. 2 police station. Miss Leighton was residing at the Lord Jersey Hotel,…

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Robbery From an Hotel. Money and Jewellery Stolen

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 July 1906 · page 4

It has been reported to the police that on Monday, between 5 and 9 o'clock In the evening. a cashbox was stolen from a room at the Lord Jersey Hotel, Chalmers-street. The…

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Victorians in London. Reception at the Hotel Cecil

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 July 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Victorian residents in London held a reception yesterday at the Hotel Cecil in honor of Sir John Madden (Lieutenant-Governor and Chief…

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Robbery at an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 July 1906 · page 6

The police have been informed of a robbery which took place at the Lord Jersey Hotel Chalmers-street, on Monday last. Money and jewellery, valued at £13 was stolen from a…

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Publicans' Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 9

The Licensing Bench, sitting at the Central Police Court yesterday, granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Herbert Blackwell to Arthur C. Paton, Volunteer Hotel, Darling-street, Balmain;…

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A Fifty-guinea Watch. Alleged Theft From an Hotel

The Australian Star · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 4

A gentleman named William Jones, who came down from Wombat, near Young, last Wednesday, and who took a room at a city hotel, has reported the loss of a fifty-guinea…

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Small Boy's Record. Gastronomical Exploit of a Youthful Gourmand in an American Hotel

The World's News · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 2

America, as we all know, prides itself on being the country of records. Fired with the spirit of patriotism, and a love of pastry, a small boy of nine years, in New York, has placed another…

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No-license Campaign

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 4

A meeting of city and suburban electoral representatives of the Independent Order of Good Templars was held in the Temperance Life-buildings, Pitt-street, on Monday. Mr…

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Theft From a Hotel

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 1

A middle-aged woman named Amelia Cox pleaded guilty before Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., at the Central Police Court to a charge of stealing a lady's gold ring, valued at £5,…

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"No-license" Campaign

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 7

At a meeting of city and suburban electoral representatives of the Independent Order of Good Templars on Monday night, the following resolution was carried:-- "That this meeting of electoral deputies, representing…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Monday, July 16. (Before Messrs. W. Clarke. D.S.M., C.J. Byrnes and W.A. McDonald. L.M.S

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 2

Albert Harrison, on behalf of the Sydney Rowing Club, applied for exemption under section 77 of the Liquor Amendment Act,. The grounds of the…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

At the meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:—Frederick C. Bleman to Harry Crichton, Park View Hotel, Rose and Myrtle streets,…

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Transfers of Licenses

The Australian Star · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench, consisting of Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M. (chairman), and Messrs. E. H. Wilshire, W. M. Macfarlane, and C. N. Payten, S.M.s. granted the…

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Hotels Transferred

Evening News · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 5

The following transfers of hotel licences were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court: —Michael Anderson to Mary Tynan, Star of Freedom Hotel, Mohcur-street, Woollahra;…

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Licensing Prosecutions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

At the Redfern Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S. M. Bessie Toner, licenses of the Stepney Hotel, Henderson-road, Alexandria, was proceeded against on an information that on the 25th…

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