EXTERMINATOR Mr. C. E. Cumnick, of Fullarton, inspects the floor of the dining room of the Norwood Hotel, which has been partly eaten away by white ants. He opened the floor and found that a stump, 5 ft. in diameter,… Read More ›
South Australia Hotels
Sturt Arcade Hotel, Adelaide
THE death of Mr W. Sandover, of Hose Park, in his eighty-seventh year, removes an old publican and politician who was an active public man in Adelaide from the early fifties to the eighties. Going to the Victorian diggings, he… Read More ›
White Hart Hotel, Adelaide
THE LATE MR. F. W. A. KLAUER. Mr. Frederick William Augustus Klauer, late landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley street [Adelaide], died on Friday, August 16, at the North Adelaide Private Hospital. The deceased, who was 76 years… Read More ›
Arno Bay Hotel
Bee in Ear Just before the gong was to be sounded for Christmas dinner at the Arno Bay Hotel (SA) the waitress went to the tank to obtain a jug of water for the table, when a bee flew into… Read More ›
Rooms ransacked
“HOTEL BARBER” SEEN, BUT ESCAPES ROOMS were ransacked and two suitcases were cut open at the Eagle Hotel, Hindley street, Adelaide, last night by a “hotel barber”, who was almost captured in a lavatory. He jumped through a window and… Read More ›
Fall down a cellar
AN OLD MAN’S DEATH ADELAIDE, Jan. 26. James Barber, of Woodville, to-day accidentally fell down an open trap door, which led into a cellar at the Buck’s Head Hotel, at Stepney, and fractured his skull. He died soon afterwards (after… Read More ›
An artful dodger
THE resourcefulness of the English tramp is proverbial (writes ‘Oriel’ in the Melbourne Argus), but his Australian prototype the sundowner, has a genius for turning opportunities to account which his English brother has never understood. Two specimens of the Australian… Read More ›
Bodyline cricketer’s armour
McCABE EQUIPPED Has Suit of Armour ! ADELAIDE, January 18, When Stan McCabe returned to his hotel late last night he found installed in his room a complete equipment for combating leg theory bowling. Standing in the corner was a… Read More ›
Publican’s 270km beer pilgrimage
MR. T. T. FOX, licensee of the Bordertown Hotel, waited from midnight to 8.45 a.m. today at the West End Brewery to replenish his beer supplies, which ran out on Christmas Eve. Mr. Fox was the first in a queue… Read More ›