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Start here:
www.google.com/search?q=Holden%27s+Laharna+hotel&sca_...

www.ebay.com.au/itm/296003780386?srsltid=AfmBOopYj2D1aUgP...

www.facebook.com/DaughterofLaharna/photos/a.1032682620422...

www.archiseek.com/1905-laharna-hotel-larne-co-antrim/

I might be wrong, but I am guessing the photo is after 1897.

beachcomber australia you might be right!

Here is something: there is a scratched out title line above and to the left of the legible one, which means this is a Cabinet plate copy.
Here is the original Imperial plate image for comparison and maybe more detail -
L_IMP_1029 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000329267

Warwickshire Herald - Thursday 25 August 1898

Holidays keepers who intend to spend their summer vacation in the Emerald Isle, can hardly do better than to select Holden's Laharna Hotel, Larne, as their headquarters. The establishment, which is under the efficient personal superintendence of Mr. A. W. Holden. is undoubtedly one of the best in Larne, and visitors will find their material requirements well catered for. In addition to commercial, coffee, dining and drawing rooms. there is a large concert and ball room, promenade roof, tennis court and all the adjuncts of a really first class English or Continental hotel.

and this is what you got for your 2 guineas

For two guineas the can have six days hotel accommodation, including three meals daily. a first-class railway journey to Portrush and Giant's Causeway. a total distance of 180 miles, a coach drive to Glenoe Waterfalls, as trip to Whitehead and Blackhead, a drive round the city of Belfast, with free admission to the principal places. and a fifty mile coach drive to Glenarm, Camlough and Glenariff Falls, along the finest coast in the British Isles. The impression of the visitor to the Laharna Hotel can hardly fail to be that the enterprising host supplies his guest with a marvellous two guineas worth.

Ladies fashions suggest 1901-1910 to me.

Niall McAuley Looks likely.

We did have this Eason shot before suggesting 1910 ish, and its EAS_4018 so close enough in the catalogue sequence, though i'm still not sure this means anything? Niall McAuley

I see a Dog

I see a Beachcomber

Murray Island has been inhabited for around 2800 years, the first settlers being Papua-Austronesians who brought agriculture and pot making with them. Regular contact between the inhabitants of Torres Strait (including Murray Island, known by the Meriam people as Mer Island), Europeans, Asians, and other outsiders began once the Torres Strait became a means of passage between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in the 19th Century. The inhabitants of the Torres Strait, including the Meriam people, gained a reputation as fierce warriors and skilled mariners. Warfare (both intertribal and against European ships in transit through the Coral Sea) and headhunting were part of the culture of all Torres Strait islanders. Source: placeandsee.com/wiki/murray-island-queensland-queensland

Islanders of the Torres Strait are originally skilled seamen. They have rich and correct knowledge about the physical circumstances of the sea, and of the ecological conditions of the maritime resources. The strait itself is the best fishing ground for natural pearls throughout the Pacific waters, then, pearl-seekers came from Sydney, and pearls were sold even in London. Of course, Islanders were employed as laborers on diver-boats, on which they made intimate relationships with Japanese divers who had the excellent ability of diving and pearl collecting. After World War II, a new marine industry was introduced by the Japanese, that is, pearl culturing. Australia-Japan joint enterprises settled their pearl farms in the strait, and Islanders found good jobs with desirable incomes there. Source: JOURNAL ARTICLE Pearl Culture and the Islanders' Society of the Torres Strait George Ohshima GeoJournal Vol. 16, No. 2, Pacific Island States (March 1988), pp. 157-168 (12 pages) Published By: Springer GeoJournal www.jstor.org/stable/41144193