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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1910

1,162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 59

The Flag of No License

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 14

The State Council of the New South Wales Alliance held its first meeting for the year on Monday at its headquarters. There was a large attendance…

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Catholic Guests at Hotels

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 18

Apropos, in hotels and restaurants Catholics should insist; on having their reli[?]s scruples respected. They only have to complain in order to have their wr[?]s…

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Castle Hill Show. The Publican's License. A Fight in the Licensing Court. Application Granted. The Rev. Bernard Deane's Discoveries. The Bringing-Up of a Parson

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 11

Before the Parramatta Licensing Bench, Mr. Maitland, S.M., on Wednesday afternoon, an application was made by Ernest E. Shayler, licensee of the…

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Police Courts. Hotel Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 8

The following applications for transfers of hotel licenses were granted at the Central Court:—Royal Hotel, Watson's Bay, Louis Henry Rintoul to William John Wilson; Hotel Bremen, Castlereagh-street, Ellen…

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Our Sydney Letter (From Our Correspondent) NO-LICENSE

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 7

Among the impressions made on M[?] Wade by his recen[?] tour in New Zealand [?] none are of greate[?]…

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Hotel Tips Fixed

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 2

The Berliner Fremderzeitung state that u resolution paused by the Society of Berlin Hotel Proprietors will bo handed all hotel…

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"The Failure of No-license." Lecture at Hurstville. (Continued from last issue)

The St George Call · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 6

Sometimes our prohibition friends try to wriggle out of an untenable position by stating that the European possesses an inherent superiority over the Asiatic,…

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Soldier Baronet Sent to Prison. His Unpaid Hotel Bill of £310 From Trooper to Colonel. London, January 7

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 20

Sir Edward Robert Murray, Bart, D.S.O., surrendered to his bail yesterday at Surrey Quarter Session at Kingston-on-Thames, on an indictment charging…

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Suicide at Waverley. Hotel-keeper Hangs Himself

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

William Phillips, 45, lately from Queensland, the proprietor of Rush's Hotel, at the corner of Oxford and Denison streets. Waverley, was discovered early this morning hanging in his…

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A Publican's Suicide. Hanged with a Clothes Line. Result of Hallucinations

The Star · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 1

William Phillips, 35 years of age, the licensee of Bush's Hotel in Oxford-stroot, XVavorley, was found hanging in his room at 6 o'clock this morning. An employee at…

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Compensation for Resumption. Licensing Court Causes Complication

Evening News · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

An unexpected position has been created in a matter which is connected with the Sydney Municipal Council's, property resumptions. It was found that the site of the Ultimo Hotel…

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Hotelkeeper Hangs Himself. a Waverley Tragedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 4

William Phillips, 35, the licensee of Rush's Hotel, Oxford-street, Waverley, was found hanging in his room at 6 a.m. yesterday. Mr. Phillips only took over the business last…

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Malay Runs Amok. Shoots Two Hotel Boarders. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 6

A Malay cook named Thomas Williams ran amok at the Shamrock Hotel, Geraldton, on Friday night. A dozen boarders were having supper in the kitchen of the hotel, when…

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A Walgett Hotel. Trouble About a Sale

The Star · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 6

An application was made to the Full Court today by the defendant in the case of George Charles Hutchinson against Francis M'Guren for a rule nisi calling upon the…

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A Publican's Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 9

William Phillips (45), proprietor of Rush's Hotel, Oxford and Denison streets, Waverley, was found dead yesterday morning, hanging by a clothes line from a picture rod in his bedroom…

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A Hotel Porter Fined

The Star · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 5

For having in his custody, on February 8, a lady's silver watch, a metal watch, a razor, a pair of gold sleeve links, and a lady's, halt comb, reasonably suspected of…

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Driven Mad by Worry. Waverley Publican's Suicide

The Star · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 6

At the inquest to-day on the body of William Phillips, 44, who hanged himself at Rush's hotel, Waverley, on Monday with a clothes line suspended from a…

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Publicans' Transfers

The Star · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench this afternoon granted the following transfers of publicans licences. Colin C. M' Dougall, Royal Hyde Park Hotel, to Andrew Mowat…

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Didn't Like the Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 44

A young college man, city bred and raised, answered a call for farm hands in a certain part of this State. Reaching the farm late at night, he was assigned to a room. It…

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Unhappy Publican. the Business Drove Him Mad

Evening News · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 4

An inquiry was held by the City Coroner into the death of William Phillips, whose body was found suspended from the curtain rail in his bedroom at Rush's Hotel, Waverley, on…

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