By MICK ROBERTS © IT’S fair to say that the Chinese are not the first settlers who spring to mind when telling the story of Colonial pubs in Australia. Although the Irish and English dominated as Colonial publicans, there were… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Publicans’ Purse scooter race raised money to build the Queanbeyan swimming pool
AFTER taking a dip at Queanbeyan (NSW) next time, consider also visiting a local pub to pay homage to the publicans who helped build the popular swimming pool. A scooter race especially for publicans, over a half-mile, followed the annual… Read More ›
Publican bookmakers and the White Bay Hotel, Rozelle
A CASE of outstanding importance to all publican bookmakers was decided by the Full Bench of Licensing Magistrates last week, when application by Norman James Smirl for the renewal of his licence at the White Bay Hotel, Rozelle [Sydney], was successful. Smirl has also… Read More ›
Old Hotel Laws
MAKE AMUSING PROVISIONS. New South Wales liquor laws harbor many strange provisions says Licensed Victuallers’ Association Mr. N. N. Connoly. Among them are: * A hotel is regarded as a temporary morgue for a corpse. * A licensee shall provide accommodation… Read More ›
Free beer for Tumut’s street sweepers
FREE BEER ! Street cleaners envy their opposite numbers down in Tumut, that picturesque and, slubrius town, which expects to be a city some 25 years hence when the Snowy River project nears completion. In that shire a very old… Read More ›
Cross dressing with a difference
PRACTICAL jokers are to be found everywhere, and even in our little town (of Wollongong, NSW) there is no exception to the rule. A day or two ago one of these practical jokers was at work in one of our… Read More ›
Arrest of a Supposed Madman
A BULLI SENSATION BULLI. Tuesday – A man named John Reynolds, who was discharged last week from the lunatic asylum, became dangerously mad this morning. Reynolds, with his brother, was sent several months ago to the asylum, suffering from religious… Read More ›
Kiwi publican hosted Sydney’s grandest hotels before murdering his wife and taking his own life
By MICK ROBERTS © THE life of one of Sydney’s most successful publicans, a man who hosted some of the harbour city’s grandest tourist hotels, ended tragically in 1935 after he murdered his wife while she slept, and he then… Read More ›
Fire destroyed Albion Park’s Commercial Hotel
ESTABLISHED in 1880, the Albion Park Hotel, located in the Illawarra region of NSW, was originally built by English pioneer, Gabriel Timbs. Timbs was a native of Berkshire, England. He was born in 1824, and came to the colony of… Read More ›
Man Struck by Lorry; Hurled into Hotel Bar
A MAN was struck by a runaway semi-trailer lorry on Friday and knocked through the doorway into the public bar of the Wollongong Hotel. The man, George Scott, 58, of 91 Corrimal street, Wollongong, had just had a drink in the bar and walked out… Read More ›