The two Tantanoola tigers IN 1884 near Tantanoola in South Australia’s south east a Bengal tiger supposedly escaped from a travelling circus. A search was mounted, but the tiger was never found. The South Australian Register reported on Tuesday 2… Read More ›
The Commercial Hotel, Picton SYDNEY, February 22. John Procter, licencee of the Commercial Hotel, Picton died suddenly last night, and at the inquest to-day a verdict that death was due to heart failure accelerated by alcohol was returned. From the… Read More ›
RIOT OVER BEER SYDNEY. December 21.— Windows were smashed and beer glasses hurled when 300 workers demonstrated outside the Park View Hotel, St. Mary’s, 35 miles from Sydney, early to-night. The demonstration was a protest at the hotel’s policy on Christmas bottle beer issue!… Read More ›
Owing to the brewery employees strike the Cessnock hotels, in common with many others have had no beer on tap for some time. The other day the proprietor of the Neath Hotel obtained several kegs of beer from somewhere. The… Read More ›
WARRACKNABEAL, Monday – A dray drawn by a sleepy horse gradually collected a crowd of followers as it moved slowly through Warracknabeal’s main street today. On the dray were three 36-gallon kegs of beer. By the time it had reached… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE are a number of claims to the title of Australia’s “longest bar”. Sydney’s famous Australia Hotel was said to have had the longest bar not only in Australia, but in the world during the 1930s…. Read More ›
Beer rationing during the war years – and for some years after – caused a frenzied rush to the bar when publicans announced that they had secured a supply of the amber nectar. For more on beer shortages visit the… Read More ›
STORIES of the drinking habits of elephants are amongst the repertoire of Mr. Petersen, the advance representative of Wirth’s Circus. One of the animals belonging to the circus developed its unhappy failing one day when being driven from a matinee… Read More ›
IT is not generally known that, according to the Liquor Act, it is necessary that every public house must have a lamp outside the main entrance to the hotel, and it is necessary that the lamp be lighted at sundown,… Read More ›