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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1910

1,162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 59

An Hotel Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 3

Early on Wednesday night a sneak thief entered tho Hyde Park Hotel, at the corner of . Bathurst and Elizabeth streets, and stole a number of articles of Jewellery, valued at about…

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No-license Campaign. No-license Moving Pictures

The Methodist · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 8

The Rev. H. L. Redman and Mr. E. C. Henry, of Lockhart, report: Practical work being done by our No-License League. A large jumber of houses already visited. Distribution of literature has been well done,…

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The Liquor Question. Objections to No-license Answered

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 7

Obj.: "It is a hypocritical law that professes to away with drinking by closing public bars, and yet allows private drinking."…

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Historic Tavern Doomed. A Celebrated London Hotel

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 2

A historic link with the London of the past is about to vanish in "Ye Olde Bell Taverne." which faces Pall Mall and St. James…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 10

The following transfers of hotel licenses have been granted at the Central Licensing Court:—Frost's Hotel, Dowling-street, City, from Elizabeth Coe to Arthur Jas. Carroll;…

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Licensed Victuallers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 11

Mr. J. B. Sutton, J.P., presided at a meeting of the committee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association on Thursday night. The chairman said he was glad to see that…

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The No-license Campaign. To the Editor of " The Call."

The St George Call · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 7

Sir, By your courtesy we have been favoured with a report of the opening meeting of the No-License campaign in Kogarah…

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No-license Is Not Prohibition

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 6

The following is an extract from investigations made by a "Daily Telegraph" reporter: It was obvious from the onset that "no-license" is not synonymous…

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No-license and the Synod. to the Edotor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 5

Sir,—I read with astonishment in your issue of Monday the remarks of the Dean of Newcastle commenting on the criticism of Mrs. Helen Barton upon Bishop Stretch…

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Exhibition of Betting News. Hotelkeeper Fined. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 9

Thomas E. Foran, licensee of the Horse Bazaar Hotel, Ballarat, was charged at the local court to-day with having permitted a placard to be exhibited at his licensed…

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No-license. Results in New Zealand. the System Beneficial

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 9

Mr. G. B. Nicholls, the no-license lecturer who is at present engaged on a strenuous campaign in this State, is a man possessing a breezy disposition, and when approached at the…

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Combating No-license. Liberty Leagues Active

Evening News · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 2

The citizens of Canterbury held a meeting in the local Town Hall to take measures to combat the activity of the "No Licence" party. The opinion was freely expressed that there…

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The Commonwealth. Hotelkeepers' Protest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.--A deputation representing the United Hotelkeepers' Association asked the Minister for Customs today to consider a proposal to amend the regulation…

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Assault in a Leichhardt Hotel

Evening News · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 13

A young man named Timothy Kain appeared with his band swathed in bandages, before the Glebe Police Court, to answer a charge of assaulting Patrick Mulline, at Leichhardt, on…

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No-license Demonstration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 11

At a meeting of the executive of the N.S.W. Alliance held at the Alliance Hotel yesterday under the presidency of Archdeacon Boyce, a report was made by the secretary on the…

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Alleged Theft From an Hotel. Two Men Committed for Trial

The Sun · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 1

Michael Gleeson, 26, and Leo Swinson, 31. both of them described as laborers, were before the Water Police Court this morning, charged with stealing from the dwelling…

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Money and Jewellery. Robbery From an Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., Denis Boone, aged 26, a laborer, was charged with stealing in the dwelling of Andrew Gow, Bathurst and…

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A "Conscientious" Objection to No-license. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 14

Sir,--After a careful search of the Bible I find that wine (which was the common drink of the people of brael) was never prohibited nor forbidden to the Jews by the two great law-givers of their history. That being…

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Fire in a Murwillumbah Hotel

Evening News · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 7

The Metropolitan Hotel, East Murwillumbah, was completely gutted by a fire on Wednesday afternoon. The outbreak started in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and the Sanies had obtained…

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Fire at Murwillumbah. Hotel Destroyed. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 10

A fire broke out in the Metropolitan Hotel, East Murwillumbah, at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon, completely demolishing it. The building was a two-story one, containing 19 bedrooms,…

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