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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1913

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Exchange Hotel, Grenfell

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 41

Tom Toohey is the popular host at the sign of the Exchange Hotel at Grenfell. This is a perfectly new hotel, built, on approved modern lines, and fitted with all modern…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

The following hotel licenses were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—Thomas Cashmen to Charles Nicholls. [?] Hotel [?]-street, city: John O'Donnell…

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Dairy Registration Act. Must Hotelkeepers Register

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--A case possessing peculiar features was before the local court this week, when Inspector Collins, under instructions from the municipal council, prosecuted Thomas M'Cormick, licensee of the…

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Dramatic Suicide. in an Hotel Bar

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In circumstances of a dramatic character a man wet his death in an hotel in Flinders-street this morning. Where he came from is not known, nor has his…

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Fires. Hotel Demolished

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 10

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Commissioner for Police has received a telegram from Normanton stating that Mitchell's Royal Hotel at Georgetown was totally destroyed by fire…

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A Timber Licensee's Rights

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 March 1913 · page 4

Tweed River tells me that A has an annual lease for grazing purposes, and he asks:—(1) If B, or anyone with a timber license, can enter upon A's…

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No License. a [?] at Enmore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1913 · page 5

The twenty-elghth annual conference of the Churches of Christ in New South Wales continued its sitting in the Tabernacle, Enmore, last night, and held a no-license rally. Mr…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 4

On Monday last (bwforw Mr T B Clegg, L.M., and Mr L C Tennanl., J.P.) Alexander Phillips was granted a renewal of the license of…

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Clever Hotel Swindle. Cheap Travelling

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 8

A couple of clever swindlers, who have victimised several fashionable hotels in Vienna, have been recently arrested. It appears that a well-dressed man was in…

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Straight-out No License

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 12

Speaking on the liquor problem at the conference of the Churches of Christ yesterday, Mr. D. R. Hall (Minister for Justice) said:-- "I live in an eminently respectable locality,…

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Old Sydney. The Old Sydney Gaol—An Accurate Description of It—As It Appeared to Mr. Commissioner Bigge—A Trading Gaoler—John Redman—Old & Inactive—No Employment—Idle Prisoners—Gambling and Quarrelling—Thomas Hobbes Scott— The First Archdeacon—At the Intersection of Pitt and Park Streets—The Butchers' Arms: By David Hill—The Volunteer Hotel: By J. A. Black—Thomas Clayton, of the Coopers' Arms—Arrest of Garrett, the Ballarat Bank Robber—Henry Dingle Cockburn,—John McArthur, William Bligh, and the Old Gibbet

Truth · Sunday 23 March 1913 · page 12

Since writing of the Sydney Gaol in Lower George-street, I have perused Mr. Commissioner Bigge's description of it, and as it forms a prominent chapter in these…

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Run on Beer. North Shore Publicans Prosperous

Evening News · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 6

An "Evening News" reporter asked several North Shore hotelkeepers how the strike of ferry hands was affected this business. "The effect at present." replied the first…

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Publican Shot. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 11

Albert Loftus, a Cannington hotel-keeper, shot himself while sitting on the side of his bed—it is unknown whether accidentally or deliberately…

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Good Templars. No-license Poll and Liquor Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1913 · page 11

The Grand Lodges of N.S.W. and Fiji, I.O.G.T., met again yesterday. About 20 membere were initiated into the Grand Lodge degree. Formal business occupied the greater…

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Duke of Cleveland Hotel, Moore Park

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 March 1913 · page 28

This beautifully-situated hotel—right on the outskirts of breezy Moore, Park, on the corner of Cleveland and Dowling Streets, and within easy distance of the city, is in…

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Grand Hotel, Southport (Q.)

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 March 1913 · page 43

The Grand Hotel, Southport. (Q.), is admittedly the handsomest, most, commodious and best-conducted hotel in the locality Southport lies 50 miles distant from Brisbane…

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Ashley Hotel, Ashley

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 March 1913 · page 43

Visitors ami travellers find the best of accommodation at that first-class and distinctly modern hotel, the Ashley, which has as its proprietress Mrs. E. Bedford, whose…

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Contract to Buy Hotel. Claim to Recover Deposit

Evening News · Thursday 27 March 1913 · page 7

A case was commenced in the District Court this morning, before Judge Murray and [?] in which Margaret Gr[?]ffen of the Waterworks Hotel, Bay-street Botany api[?]ter brought to…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 5

The following publicans' licenses were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—Edwin J. S. A. Hollingworth to William Bates, National Hotel, George-street, Sydney; William J. Murphy to John…

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District Court. (Before Judge Murray and a Jury). Sale of an Hotel. Claim for £60

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 5

Margaret Griffin, of the Waterworks Hotel, Bay-street, Botany, spinster, brought an action against A. E. Eberhard, of the Australian Hotel, Waterloo, for £60, in connection…

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