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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

1,369 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 69

The Island Cruise Case. Forbes Sentenced to Three Years May Be Released on License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 12

At the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions yesterday morning. William Stanley Forbes, who was found guilty on August 10 of stealing valuable securities, the property of the…

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Fire in a Hotel. Billiard-marker Arrested. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 13

About 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the billiard-room of the Criterion Hotel, at Trafalgar, owned by Mr. G. Hough, and spread with amazing rapidity…

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The Great Debate on the Licensing Bill

The Methodist · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 2

The outstanding feature of Thursday 's debate, and, indeed, of the whole debate up to the present, with the single exception of the Prime Minister's opening, was the truly magnificent Speech of Sir Thomas Whittaker…

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Thefts From Hotels Liability of Landlords

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 2

What is the exact responsibility of the landlords of hotels when valuable property which has not been entrusted, to their care has, according to the assertion of visitors,…

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Wireless System for Hotels

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 August 1908 · page 7

Arrangements have been made by the managers of a chain of the principal hotels in various cities of the United States to connect their places of business by…

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Panic Followed Bomb Explosion. Audiences in Theatres and Guests in Hotels Fled in Terror. Chicago. July 13

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 August 1908 · page 12

Terror was caused in the Chicago Automobile Club and in three five-cent, theatres last night by the explosion of a bomb in the rear of 260 State-street…

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The World of Women in New York The Martha Washington Hotel

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 16 August 1908 · page 6

The coming influx of the American visitors and the advance guard of four American officers' wives, already in Sydney, make the following account of a unique hotel in…

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Broken-hill Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 August 1908 · page 6

Canon Boyce, representing the New South Vales Alliance, asked the Premier the other day that consideration should be given to the question of a second Reduction Court…

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Sydney Filling Up. Hotels Crowded. Shakedowns All Over the Place

Evening News · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 3

It was noticeable this morning that the crowds in the principal streets of Sydney were larger than usual. Thousands of country people had arrived, and the hotels and…

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Hotels and Public Convenience

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 6

The recent decision of the State Full Court in regard to the hotels in the Broken-hill and Sturt electorates- whose licenses were reduced by the Special Court in compliance…

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Broken-hill Licenses. the Reduction Vote. Decision of the High Court. Public Convenience a Necessary Consideration

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 10

The High Court had under review yesterday the recent decision of the Stale Full Court --that the convenience of the public and the requirements of the locality affected are matters of…

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Hotel Porter Killed

Evening News · Wednesday 19 August 1908 · page 6

Alfred Caldwell, night porter at Roberts' Hotel, corner of George and Market streets, City, Was found in an unconscious condition at the foot of the hotel stairs at an early hour this…

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Hotel Brawl

The Australian Star · Wednesday 19 August 1908 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions this morning, before Judge Backhouse and a Jury, Thomas John Stewart pleaded not guilty to maliciously indicting grievous bodily harm upon…

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Fire at an Hotel. an Open Verdict. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 14

An inquest was held by the District Coroner (Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.) on Monday, concerning the fire which destroyed the Travellers' Rest Hotel, at the Cross Roads, on…

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Country Licensing Courts. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 8

The Local Option Court for the Wollondilly electorate, which contains 32 hotels, was held here this morning, before Judge Fitzhardinge, F. H. Galbraith, P.M., and R. H. Antill, J.P…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Hotel Porter Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 4

The night-porter at Roberts's Hotel, Alfred Caldwell, who was found unconscious, with a fractures skull, at the foot of the stairs early yesterday morning, died at the Sydney Hospital…

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Liquor License Reduction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 13

At a meeting of the general council of the prohibition party on Wednesday night a resolution was agreed to expressing regrets at the failure of the local option provisions of…

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Licensing Prosecutions in Brisbane. Large Quantities of Liquor Confiscated

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 13

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--At the South Brisbane Summons Court to-day, Amy Blair pleaded guilty to a charge of selling liquor without a license at a house in Montague-road. She was…

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Labor and Liquor. Another Enemy "To the Trate." Cleavage in New Zealand Workers Urged to Vote No License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 13

Practically all over the world the liquor[?] traffic has got its sleeves rolled up and is fighting desperately to keep its enemies from emptying its beer-cask, and locking up its house of…

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London Publicans' Lures. Varied Attractions

Evening News · Saturday 22 August 1908 · page 3

"Let's lure him on to skitles, and skin, him," says the comic villain in a melodrama very popular a few years ago. According to a a river in an English paper, the London…

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