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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1911

1,059 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 53

Late Cable News. Received To-day. Fireworks in Mud—Bath . Spontaneous Combustion. Large Hotel Destroyed. Inmates' Narrow Escapes

Evening News · Thursday 3 August 1911 · page 8

BERLIN. wednesday Evening— A Sensation occurred last night by the burning to the ground of the celebrated royal kurbausand hotel pyrmont waldeck…

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Dismissing an Employee. Claim by Hotel Manager. Question of Reasonable Notice

The Sun · Thursday 3 August 1911 · page 6

The question of what notice should be given to an employee in termination of an engagement came into a claim for £200 which was heard in the District Court yesterday…

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Butcher's License. 93.—Transfer of License

The Land · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 9

(Q.).—A butcher in this shire took out the required license at the beginning of July for the ensuing 12 months. After having been in…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 3

The following transfers or publicists licences have been granted:—Cricketers Arms Hotel, King-street, Newtown, from John J. Edmonds to Harold L. Street Grosvenor Hotel…

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Great Hotel Fire. Berlin, Aug. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 9

The Royal Kurhaus Hotel at Pyrmont has been destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at £125,000. Hundreds of seantily-clad visitors had…

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Hotels Transperred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 4

Applications r transfers of hotel liccnses werr yesterday granted by the Metropolitan Liccnsing Bench as follows:—Cricketers' Arms Hotel, King-Street, Newtown, John F. Edmonds to Harold L. street;…

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Over the Sea. Ships in Touch by Wireless. May Be Spoken From Hotel Australia

The Sun · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 6

The Hotel Australia Station expects to enter into communication by Australasian Wireless, Ltd., with the following ships between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. to -day:--…

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DISTRICT. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Hotel Manageress's Notice

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 10

Myrtle Fuchs, of Sydney, hotel manageress, sought to recover £200 compensation from Christopher Francis, of the Gresham Hotel, Yorkstreet, Sydney, licensed victualler, for alleged…

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A Midnight Exit. Fire in a German Hotel. Damage Estimated at £125,000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 7

BERLIN, Wednesday Evening.--The Royal Kurhaus Hotel, at Pyrmont, in the Principality of Waldeck, was destroyed by fire last night. The outbreak occurred in the middle of the…

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Liverpool Licensing Court. Wednesday, August 2. (Before Mr. T.B. Clegg, P.M.) Hotel Transfers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 5

An application was made for the transfer of the licence of the Warwick Farm Raeecourse Hotel, George and Moore streets. Liverpool, from francis Close to…

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Twixt Heaven and Earth. Scene. Lift, First Floor of Sydney Hotel

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 3

(Enter Lady Blanche de Pulls Point, who coolly acknowledge [?] lute of Liftman in uniform and luxurious black moustaches…

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Over the Sea. Ships in Touch by Wireless. May Be Spoken From Hotel Australia

The Sun · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 1

The Hotel Australia Station expects to enter into communication by Australasian Wireless, Ltd., with the following ships between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. to-day:--…

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Sensational Shooting Affray in Hotel. Woman's Admirer Charged with Wounding Husband Loved by Another. London, July 1

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 August 1911 · page 22

How a husband was shot in an affray with a man who, if was alleged, had carried on an intrigue with the former's wife, was the subject of a dramatic story, which was told by the…

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Over the Sea. Ships in Touch by Wireless. May Be Spoken From Hotel Australia

The Sun · Monday 7 August 1911 · page 9

The Hotel Australia Station expects to enter into communication by Australasian Wireless, Ltd., with the following ships between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. to-day:--…

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Points About No License

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 August 1911 · page 6

Lecturing yesterday afternoon in the Lyceum- hall on "No License in New Zealand." Rev. T. Fee observed that the liquor advocates never defended the traffic, though they often stated…

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Licensing Legislation. Proposed Queensland Measure. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 13

Considerable interest is being evinced in the Licensing Bill, the introduction of which is expected in the Assembly this week. One of the important subjects on which there has…

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Refused Accommodation. a Publican Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 8

MARYBOROUGH (Q.), Monday.--At the Maryborough Police Court on Saturday the licensee of a local hotel was charged with having refused accommodation to a number of Pialba…

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A Mudgee Licensing Case

Evening News · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 8

Sitting in Chambers this morning Mr. Justice Ferguson had before him an appeal arising out of a prosecution under the Liquor Act at Mudger in which the defendant was Walter…

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Pilfering at a City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 17

George Savage (29) was charged before Mr. King, S.M., at the Water Court, with stealing a handbag containing, £3 and other articles, valued in all at £310, the property of Aileen Brown, at Belfield's Hotel, on…

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An Up-to-date Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 53

Edward Dodd, proprietor of the Great Southern Hotel, Goulburn, is alive to the comforts of travellers, for he has installed in his establishment every conceivable…

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