By MICK ROBERTS © JUST why Italian immigrant and Alexandria publican, Benjamin Lafiura prematurely ended his life in such an agonising method will probably never be known. Like the small two storey corner pub where he ended his 48… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Publican takes it easy
Mr John Dorahy, president of the Illawarra branch of the U.L.V.A. (Later Australian Hotels Association), and licensee of the Wollongong Hotel, spent last Thursday ‘resting up,’ when employees at his hotel decided to join in a stoppage for 24 hours… Read More ›
Royal Hotel, Parkes
PLUCKY WOMAN Pluckily facing an intruder who had climbed over the balcony, Mrs Chesterton, wife of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, at Parkes (NSW), pointed a bunch of nickel keys at him, forced him into a room, the door… Read More ›
Sir John Young Hotel, Sydney
FATAL HOTEL AFFRAY SYDNEY, Monday. A fatal quarrel took place at the Sir John Young Hotel, George-street, tonight. A man named Thomas Jones, aged 48, a wharf laborer, and another man, both being under the influence of liquor, quarrelled and… Read More ›
Yowie Bay publican charged with cancer suffering wife’s manslaughter
THE publican of the Yowie Bay Hotel, south of Sydney, made headlines around the country in 1905 when he attempted suicide after the death of his 42-year-old wife. The pretty little pub traded from 1903 to 1918 and was located… Read More ›
Bottles by the thousands
Christmas cheer – Bottles everywhere but not a drop to drink! People who spent days asking in different hotels for bottle beer in vain will not get much satisfaction from this collection of ’empties’ in a corner of a Newcastle… Read More ›
Criterion Hotel, Moree
FREE BEER All roads led to a bar at Moree the other day, when there was free beer for two hours to commemorate the opening of the Criterion Hotel, a new building which replaces the old Criterion, which was the… Read More ›
Bush pub race meets
THE race meetings promoted by wayside publicans of the Outback are things of the past, and most of the old wayside pubs are things of the past, too, but many old residents of the wide western spaces can still remember… Read More ›
Buried treasure
About five years ago a box jewellery, valued at £200, was stolen out of the safe at Mr W. J. Fimister’s Wollongong Hotel, and although every search was made, no trace of the missing articles could be found. On Wednesday… Read More ›
Rolling out the (new style) barrel
Mr Kevin Vitnell, of Wallsend, lowers a 10-gallon stainless steel keg into the cellar of a city hotel yesterday. Stainless steel kegs are gradually replacing the traditional wooden keg in Newcastle. Brewers report that the timber for the wooden kegs… Read More ›