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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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;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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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