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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

1,369 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 69

The Licensing Bill. Government's Next Move

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A statement made by Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), when addressing his constituents at Criccieth,…

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Publican's License for Tintenbar. "Refused by the Court. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 14

At the Licensing Court to-day Mr. Sanderson applied for a conditional license for premises to be erected at Tintenbar Great interest was taken in the proceedings owing…

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The Licensing Bill. 700 AMENDMENTS

Evening News · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 8

LONDON, Friday Evening. The Government intends to devote 23 days in the House of Commons to the licensing Bill. Notice of 700 amendments to the Bill have been given, many…

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Licensing Bill. Glasgow Corporation Endorses. London, Oct. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 13

The Corporation of Glasgow, by 34 votes to 19, has decided, to petition the Government in favour of the English Licensing Bill…

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Scene at an Hotel. a Woman Shot. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 13

About noon to-day, at the Railway Hotel, a young married woman named Emily Smith, employed as a housomaid at the hotel, received several shots from a revolver in various…

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Licensing Bill Seven Hundred Amendments London, Friday, 3 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 1

The Government intend to devote 23 days to the consideration of the Licensing Bill in the House of Commons. There are no fewer than 700 amendments,…

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Hotel-breaker Sentenced

The Australian Star · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 2

At the Quarter Session yesterday George Bray was found guilty of breaking and entering James Wotton's hotel in Bourkestreet on July 24, and stealing a quantity…

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English Licensing Bill. Applauded in Glasgow

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- By 34 votes to 19, the Corporation of the City of Glasgow have decided to petition the Government in favor of the English Licensing Bill…

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Latest Cable News English Licensing Bill 700 Amendments. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 7

The Government intends to devote twenty-three days to the consideration of the now Licensing Bill in the House of Commons…

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Demonstration Against Licensing Bill

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 12

A monster demonstration against the Licensing Bill was carried out in Hyde Park on Sunday. A quarter of a million people participated in the demonstration, among them being 70,000 from the…

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French Hotel Mysteries. Paris, August 25

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 12

The judicial inquiry into the crime of Caesar Tasso, who murdered an Armenian woman at Marseilles and hid her body in a trunk has brought to light some curious…

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The Licensing Bill. 700 Amendments. London, Oct. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1908 · page 7

The Government will devote 23 days for the consideration of the Licensing Bill in the House of Commons. There are 700 amendments to be moved,…

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Licensing Bill Debate. Seven Hundred Amendments

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 October 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Government intends to devote 23 days in the House of Commons to the Licensing Bill. Notice of 700 amendments to the bill has…

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Gloucester Licensing Court Seven Hotels to Be Closed

Evening News · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 5

THREE, Tuesday.—At the Special Licensing Court for Gloucester electorate, seven hotels and one colonial wine licence were ordered to be closed, namely:—M'Cartney's Taree Hotel,…

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An Hotel Thief

Evening News · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 3

A thief got into the Montana Hotel King street city and making has way to the bedroom of the licensee Mt.P Bullot stole several articles of Jewellery including a diamond…

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Decrease of Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 8

There are now 3286 hotels in Victoria, or one to every 384 persons. In 1885 there were 4265 hotels, or one, to every 227 of the population…

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Publican Heavily Fined

Evening News · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 7

At Parramatta this morning, Frederick Clough, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Auburn, pleaded not guilty to supplying liquor to an intoxicated person. Senior-constable Nelson…

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The Licensed House

Evening News · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 6

The Bill that has been introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Lamington will probably do as much, if passed, to discourage drunkenness as the more drastic Licensing Bill…

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Deputation. Tobacco-lolly Shops. Request for £5 License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 4

"The tobacconist is a nonentity; he is not looked up to by anybody," said the deputation pathetically. Any little lolly shop could raise a tobacconist's license for 5s; and then hawk…

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The Old Gap Hotel

The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 4

Half a century ago, when the ill-fated immigrant ship Dunbar crashed into the wall of rock near the entrance to Sydney Heads, the first to know of the disaster were the…

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