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Hotels & licensing, 1912

1,095 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 55

Fatal Hotel Fire. Five Commercial Travellers Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 10

PLASTER ROCK (Now Brunswick), Tuesday Evening.--Five. commercial travellers lost their lives in Fraser's Hotel, destroyed by fire. Ten others narrowly escaped being burned to…

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Hotels Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 5

The following trandfers of hotel licenses were yesterday effected at the Metropolitan Licensing Court, held at the Central Court:—Friendship Hotel, Bathurst-street, James Brown to Walter Howard Hunting;…

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Hotel Robber. Startled by a Woman. the Senator's Watch. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 10

A few days ago an "hotel barber" went into the Federal Coffee Palace and stole Senator Guthrle's watch while the Senator was in bed and asleep. He was seen by the porters, but…

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Preference to Publicans. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 7

Sir, With the agitation now in progress for reduced hours for chemists and others I am in full sympathy There is however, one aspect of this shorter house business I cannot understand. Why should publicans be open…

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Ant-Proof Furniture. Boon for Australian Households, Hotels, Boarding Houses, Shops, etc

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 3

The losses throughout Australia from the destruction of food by ants are immense, apart altogether from the inconvenience. It is well known…

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The Digger's License New Readers Begin Here. Synopris of Previous Chapters

The World's News · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 22

The story opens with a description of the firing from the police camp, Ballarat, at lights on the Flat, during the troubles about the arbitrary method of collecting the diggers' license fees, or, rather, hunting for those…

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More Haymarket Buildings. Hotel and Sixteen Shops

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 1

A company is being formed in Sydney for the purpose of erecting a hotel and 16 shops in the Haymarket. The site which the company will acquire is part of the land…

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

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 9

The Hotel Australia station expects to be in communication with the following ships, today by Australasian Wireless:-- Demosthenes, Brisbane to Sydney…

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The Steyne Hotel. Manly

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 16

It is understood that the well-known Steyne Hotel, Manly, is shortly to bo taken over by new management. The sale which was conducted privately by Messrs. Batt, Rodd, and Purves, realised £35,000 an exceptionally…

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Daring Hotel Robbery

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 March 1912 · page 14

A carefully-planned and daringly-executed robbery oc-curred early on Monday morning at the Palace Hotel, near Camberwell railway station. Upper Hawthorn. The licensee, Catherine Luttrell, locked up the…

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Hotel Dirigible Stage

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 March 1912 · page 19

Captain Horace Wild, of Chicago, who is promoting a £200,000 company for the purpose of operating a dirigible balloon line between New York and Atlantic City, with a stop in…

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Old Sydney. In Ancient Castlereagh-street —Bachfield's Hotel—Club Life in Sydney—The Genesis of the Clubs—The Australian, Founded in 1838 : Its First Home, the Pulteney Hotel—The Union, Founded in 1857: Its First Home, Wynyard Square—An Original Member, Mr. F. H. Dangar, the Father of the Club—Prominent Politicians of the Olden Time—The Sydney Club: Its Home in Castlereagh-street—An Historic House—Richard Pittman—The Sydney Bar in the Forties—Legal Giants—Membership of the Sydney Club—An Historic Contest— An Election at Orange—Why Sir James Martin Left the Church— Henry Rotton, of Blackdown—The Dunns's Plains Episode— Rotton's Ransom of Keightley. (No. 231.—By "Old Chum.")

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1912 · page 9

Before we leave Castloreagh-street North on our journey couth, let us recall a few more of its old inhabitants. The people who helped buildup this city, and whose…

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Sale of a Hotel. a Claim for Commission

Evening News · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 6

Mr. Justice Pring and a jury had before them this morning in the Taxon Court, as action in which James [?] Wallis sued George R. [?] upon a claim for commission upon…

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Sale of a Hotel. Claim for Commission. Verdict for Plaintiff

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 1

A claim for [?]100 commission in respect of the sale of the Federal Hotel, Berrigan, occupied the attention of Mr. Justice Pring, and a jury of four in Banco to-day…

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Hotel Metropole. Reduction of Capital Approved

Evening News · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 7

Mr. Justice Street, sitting in Equity jurisdiction, has before him an application by Mr. Wlekhose (instructed by Messrs. M'Donell, and Moffitt) on behalf of the Hotel Metropole…

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Early Closing of Hotels

The Sun · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 7

A large number of petitions were presented to the Legislative Assembly this afternoon against any interference with the existing hour of closing hotels. Almost an…

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Hotel Till Robbed. £50 Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 10

COBARGO, Monday. -- The bar till at Dunsmore's Hotel, containing £50, was stolen on Saturday night…

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Banco Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and jury.) Sale of an Hotel. Claim for Commission

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 7

This was a claim by James Edward Wallis, a commercial traveller and commission agent, for commission on the sale of the Federal Hotel, at Berrigan, the defendant being R. Rentoule…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Street.) Motion to Reduce Capital. Re Hotel Motropole, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 8

Mr. Wickham, instructed by Messrs. M'Donald and Moffit, appeared for the Hotel Metropole, Ltd., and moved for an order for the reduction of the capital of the company. In…

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A Proposed New Hotel. Filling a Long-Felt Want

The Sun · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 10

Sydney has no greater need at present than the erection of an up-to-date, well- equipped hotel. During, the past ten years the increase in…

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