Hotel Gambling Encouraging Trade MELBOURNE
Hotelkeepers here have many methods of encouraging customers. In some of the suburban hotels guessing competitions are held about…
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1,100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 55
Much Too Fast Motorists Lose Licenses Three Months Suspension
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At the Central Police Court yesterday, Clive Edwards, aged 31, an auctioneer, was fined £10 and costs, in default, two months' imprisonment,…
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INGENUITY, crookedly used, rarely fails to return a dividend. An Adelaide, hotelkeeper, who lays the odds between drinks, is £15. poorer by a trick worked on him during the Christmas racing…
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SAID Old Man Fletcher of Dog Eared Flat: "If 'e doesn't win, I'll eat me 'at! This mornin' I tried him out, round six, an' s'far as I've seen he's got no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →De Garis Was in Sydney--but Did He Board the Maheno? Mysterious Stranger at Mortlake Some Tell-tale Belongings Found at Palace Hotel Keys, Hair, and a Telegram Chase That Finished Too Late at the Wharf
C. J. de Garis, the missing Melbourne financier, at first supposed to have drowned himself in Port Phillip Bay, near Mentone, Vic., but for whose arrest a warrant subsequently was issued, on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Toney But Stony. Hotel Robertson Ltd. Asks for Time to Pay Ornate Pub that the Governor Opened has Left No Change Out of a £65,000 Cheque—Liabilities Now Total £10,000—Company's Capital is Under £30,000 Mr. Abbott Expresses Confidence and Strikes an Optimistic Note
VERILY life is full of sharp contrasts, of sudden ups and downs SIX weeks ago, with magnificent pomp and ceremony, the much-boomed and ornate pub, the Hotel Robertson, was officially opened by the State Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mental Patient's Death Echo of Wilcannia Tragedy Fiddler Shot Dead While Playing Outside Hotel
Thirty years ago Myles McGrath, then in the early twenties, was living with his people, who kept the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, at Wilcannia. Like many other young fellows in the country, young McGrath…
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The following transfers of publicans' Licenses were granted by the Licensing Court to-day:-- Baden Powell Hotel, 222 George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Loved Housemaid Hotel Tragedy a "Useful's" Passion She Wouldn't Kiss Him
He loved the housemaid, and it was his evident intention to shoot her and himself. He was William Kirkwood. 25. a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →S. A. Licensed Victuallers' Club. Ble Noir Wins L. V. Handicap. Adelaide
The Licensed Victuallers' Club held a meeting to-day at Victoria Park in warm weather. There was a large attendance. Details:- Trial Stakes, 6½f.—First division: Mrs. E. J. Dunn's…
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"This is to state that I, William Kirkwood, am of a sound mind, and know what I am doing. In the event of anything…
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The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Baden Powell Hotel, 222 George-street, Camperdown, from Alfred P. Jenkins to William Henry Cox; Pinblerts Hotel,…
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The license of Tattersall's hotel, Parramatta, has been transferred from Geo Charles Pearson to Geo. Mayes…
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Henry Arthur Binstead was fined £30, with [?] costs, in default four months' inmprisonment, when he appeared before Mr. Giles Shaw, [?]. S. M., at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of having, while…
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The City Coroner (Mr. Jamicson) recorded a finding kof suicide at the conclusion of an inquest yesterday into the circumstances sorrounding the death of willliam Kirkwood, aged 26 years, who took his life at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Public Opinion Children in Hotels
"A Happy Visitor's" suggestion: -- Staying for a fortnight at an hotel, I deeply appreciate the quiet and charm of the beautiful Botanic Gardens, one…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Net Will Close on De Garis To-day Detectives Certain of Their Man Another Find at the Mortlake Hotel Preparations for Arrival at Auckland
"When the Maheno reaches Auckland to-day police Will board the vessel and 'Mr. Leslie' will be detained. Mr. Leslie' is C. J. de Garis." A detective at headquarters said last night that that…
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The City Coroner yesterday returned a verdict of suicide in the case of William Kirkwood, an hotel useful, who on November 7 of last year shot…
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Sir,--Now that the holidays are over, and affairs are settling down to normal, I desire to direct attention to a matter that was a subject of…
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