Deniliquin’s Hotel History

The Terminus was built on the corner of Poiciters and Hardinge Street the year Deniliquin was connected to Victoria by rail and was about 160m from the end of the rail line.

The April 22nd, 1876, edition of the Pastoral Times reported that John McGrath obtained a publican’s license, and a free ball and supper was going to be held to celebrate the opening.

John McGrath died at the hotel on October 20, 1885, at the age of fifty-seven.

Honora McGrath was the next to run the Hotel and was listed as doing so from 1886 until 1891.

In 1892, the Terminus was renamed the Drover’s Arms Hotel and Thomas W. Dickson was running the Hotel.

Daniel Foley was the next publican to hold the license.

In 1901, Thomas Moseley had ads in The Independent that he had leased the hotel, unfortunately the earliest newspaper online is issue #144 so we don’t know how long the ads were running for.

The hotel was offered for public auction on November 24 ,1904 with Mr. Hoskins being the leading bidder.

A fire destroyed a small dwelling at the back of the hotel in 1908.

Mary Ann Donovan, the wife of John Donovan died at the hotel in September. 1914.

Mr James Halton died at the hotel in October 1914 at the age of 40 after falling ill with pneumonia.

Hotel Licensee, Henry F. Danckert died in January 1916.

Mary Danckert’s license of the hotel was transferred to Roland Simon Fraser on September 7, 1916.

August 1917 saw the death of Edward Hoskins, the man who ran the Victoria Hotel, White Lion Hotel and the Oddfellows.

Roland Simon Fraser had his license renewed in June 1917 at an a.a.v cost of £42 and licence fee of £10.

In May 1922, Michael James Foley pleaded guilty to allowing Michael McCannon on his premises at a time when such premises should not be open for the sale of liquor, and was fined 40s, with 8s costs.

The Oddfellows was de-licensed on June 30, 1922, and the Riverine Brewery Co was compensated £780 whilst Mr. Foley was compensated £120 as licensee.

The Hotel closed its doors at 6pm on June 30, 1922, along with the Dublin, Union Club, Victoria, Carriers’ Rest and Bendigo Hotels.

On the 21st of July 1922, an auction was held to sell the household items of the hotel.

The Hotel was described as having 14 rooms, W.B, Bathroom, Washhouse and Stables and was a brick construction.

The July 21, 1922, edition of the Independent reported that Elliott’s Riverine Brewery Co. transferred the property of the hotel to W. J. Adams for £405.

Locals called it the ‘Pig & Whistle’ after the hotel was delicensed, the Pastoral Times in 1942 couldn’t find anybody who knew why it was called that name.

The location was converted into three flats in 1942, a fire ripped through the buildings in 2004 with demolition taking place in 2008 and the site was cleared for the construction of Deni Party Hire in 2015.

It was recently discovered that if you use Google Maps on an internet browser you can see the dismantling of the flats, to do this use the Street View option and on the top left side you’ll see a date and a clock, use the clock and go back in time to where you will see the dismantling and click on the image and it should turn out to be like below.

Black Swan Inn/Hotel

The Black Swan Inn/Hotel stood on the site of the Federal Hotel on the corner of Cressy and Napier Street.

An April 1882 account mentions the license being transferred from George McLeod to Mrs. Smith.

Mary J. Smith was listed as running the hotel in 1882 followed by Francis D. Bassett in 1883.

Francis Bassett transferred the license to Mr. Marshall on April 8, 1884.

C. F Judd was given the license to the hotel on November 26, 1885.

Frederick Marshall died in February 1886 after living in the Deniliquin district for thirty-five years.

C. F. Judd transferred the licence of the hotel to Thomas Edward Rose on November 8, 1886.

Thomas Edward Rose sold items from the hotel the day before he transferred the license to Bridget Marshall on January 28th, 1887.

The Black Swan was destroyed in an 1896 fire that also destroyed several nearby businesses.

The fire made news in several colonies (states were referred to as colonies pre-1901) and was infamous because of a Firefighters strike was taking place at the time of the fire and the fire brigade refused to stop the fire that could have saved the Black Swan and other local businesses.

If the fire was prevented there is little to no doubt that Deniliquin’s hotel scene would have drastically been altered as the Federal Hotel would not have been built when it was if not at all.

Former Licensee, Mr. Thomas Edward Rose died in hospital in 1915.

Nicknamed the Buncha, this Hotel has withstood several floods (1889, 1917, 1931 and 1956) and damage from an 1890 storm.

In 1876, Henry Willmore (written in a newspaper as Willmoor and Wilmore) was granted a license for the Hotel, his was one of only two town licenses granted out of seven applications, Mr. Wilmore was previously rejected in September 1876.

The Hotel had twenty rooms, 25 stable stalls, 3 shops and seven acres of land when put up for sale by Mr. Wilmore in 1882.

In March 1882, The Hotel went from Mr. Willmore to Mr. J. O’Reilly and Mr. Willmore was said to have been out to “seek fresh fields and pastures new”.

J. O’Reilly transferred the license to Mary J. Smith on March 21, 1883.

In 1900, James McKenzie was listed as the publican/licence and in 1906 he was fined for having two patrons on the premises on a Sunday.

Advertisements appeared in 1903 editions of the newspaper that the hotel was ‘To Let’ and interested parties had to apply to Thomas Hetherington.

L. Maher ran ads advising he had leased the hotel; Carlton Ale was on draught and the hotel had splendid accommodation for boarders.

The 1917 flood affected the hotel with the June 22nd edition of The Independent reporting that the flooding was up to the veranda of the hotel.

In 1921, the licensee of the Hotel was Mrs. L. Donovan, the hotel was described at the time to have 12 bedrooms (4 for family), three parlors, dining room, billiard room, kitchen, a 12-stall stable and loose boxes.

The hotel was chosen to remain in business while the nearby Victoria Hotel was de-licensed.

The Executrices of Thomas Hetherington put the Edward River Hotel on sale on June 13, 1922.

A branch of the ALP was formed at the hotel in July 1925 with Arthur Sullivan appointed President and John Donovan secretary.

A man was fatally injured in a fight outside the hotel in 1928 and hitting his head on a metal roadway.

In 1931, flooding caused the cellar of the hotel to flood, the flooding was caused by a ventilator that was not blocked off.

In 1934, two bicycles were stolen from the premises.

In 1936, the lease of the hotel was handed over by Mrs. L. J. Donovan to Mr. R. Donovan.

Three men in 1936 were arrested and then plead guilty to being on the licensed premises during prohibited hours.

In 1938, Mr William Hawkshaw brought the lease of the Hotel from Mr. Roy Donovan.

In 1937, three bags of Chaff were stolen from a shed and in 1939 there was a theft of Cigarettes and Liquor.

In 1939, Mr Hawkshaw ‘disposed of his business’ due to ill health and the business was taken up by Mr Lawrence from Melbourne, Mr Hawkshaw died in Deniliquin on January 19, 1940.

In 1944, Percy Lynch was mentioned as the licensee when he was fined for failing to enter than names of the lodgers in the register.

A baby car was stolen from the front of the hotel in September 1945, it was believed to been driven to Mathoura before being left outside the Air Station in Deniliquin.

A man in 1946 was charged for being on the premises on prohibited hours but was found not guilty.

The license of the hotel was transferred from Patrick O’Hanlon to Wentworth Murray Ivers on July 22, 1947.

Opened in 1857, It changed its name soon after to Sportsman’s Arms.

In 1864, the hotel was put for auction and despite it being the Sportsman’s it was still better known as Faugh-a-Ballagh, the sale included a paddock the size of 25 acres.

William Herriot transferred the license of the hotel to Richard Manly on June 11, 1867.

Thomas Stalley transferred the license of the hotel to William Herriot on Tuesday February 15, 1870.

Robert Pyke taken the license of the hotel in May 1870.

Robert Pyke transferred the license of the hotel to William Herriot Jnr on June 20 1872.

In 1887, William Heriot left the Sportsman’s Arms after a reported 15 years (may actually be 17 years) to go to Melbourne but returned shortly after to run the Globe Hotel.

Plans for the hotel to have new premises were approved in January 1904 with demolition of the old premises occurring in February and the new premises were completed in May that year with the opening being that same month.

In 1915, William Morran was licensee and was fined 3 pounds and 2s for breaching the Liquor Act, William Morran died in Elwood in 1928.

In 1924, the proprietor of was H. W. Oxenham.

Walter Bott sold in March 1928 the goodwill and lease of the hotel to Jack Charleston.

A. McPhee took over the Hotel on the 5th of June 1929 and Les Bott took over on the 17th of April 1930.

Les Bott handed over the license to Mr. J. Danckert in November 1930.

In 1947, hotel owner Wallace Stillard’s plane disappeared, the aircraft and his remains were found in 1948.

The hotel license was transferred from Norman Arnold Imhoff to Anne Eileen Imhoff on June 17, 1947.

Dave Prior taken over the license of the hotel in September 1951 from the Imhoff’s.

The freehold of the hotel and 15 acres of land were put up for auction following the death of Mrs. Morran.

The auction held in March 1953 failed to meet reserve with negotiations being held with Geoffrey Hetherington, the highest bidder in the auction.

Reginald Wigg transferred the license of the hotel to Geoffery Hetherington in January 1958.

Two Gold Sovereigns were discovered in February 1958 during the removal of walls in the hotel; it was also reported that the hotel was once called the ‘Foggabolla’ and the nearby bridge was called the Foggabulla.

‘Foggabolla’ has been the name of several horses and sounds a lot like the name ‘Faugh-a-Ballagh’.

The hotel played a part in North School’s (Mark III) history as two meetings were held in the early 1960’s to find out what was happening with the school being constructed across the road (it eventually opened in 1963).

The Hotel changed its name from Sportman’s Arms to Sportman’s Hotel/Motel on the 16th of December 1968.

Geoffrey Hetherington and Maurice Hetherington ran the hotel into the 70’s with Maurice’s time starting on the 18th of July 1978.

The Cally’s ran the hotel for two decades before divesting the hotel to a private investor who handed it to another operator before the Cally’s were returned before the private investor decided to sell in 2020.

The site of the hotel is 2,816 square meters and contains a sports bar, a lounge bar, a gaming room complete with four Poker Machine Entitlements (PME) allowing four machines in the hotel, there is the open-plan bistro and commercial kitchen, a bottle shop, a car park and finally the ten motel rooms at the back. 

It also has a 50-kilowatt solar system which is equal to ten 5kw home systems.

The Exchange Hotel has been a fixture on End Street for many, many years.

Bricks were thrown at the windows of the Exchange Hotel in July 1866.

William Perry transferred the license of the Exchange Hotel to Crawford Ross in August 1867, a music license for Monday and Saturday nights was granted to Mr. Ross on November 25, 1867.

The license was transferred from Crawford Ross to Richard DeCuster in 1868.

An attempted transfer of license from Richard DeCuster to John Nugent in June 1870 was refused.

J.E Winterbottom was granted a license for the hotel on December 10, 1877.

J. E Winterbottom transferred the license of the hotel to Hans Sorrenson on May 14, 1878.

The hotel faced tragedy in April 1878 with the death of Lily Newton who had died by suicide at the hotel.

Hans Sorrenson transferred the license of the hotel to Claus Pump in July 1880.

Caroline Pump drowned in the Edward River in July 1880, a short time after her husband had taken over the Exchange Hotel.

Henry Rogers applied for and was granted the license to the hotel on May 27, 1882.

Alfred Lambert was found at the rear of the premises on October 5, 1882 with his ‘skull smashed in’, he was taken to hospital but died hours later, the verdict by in an inquiry was ‘wilful murder’ but nobody was found responsible.

The license of the hotel was transferred from Henry Rogers to William Austin in December 1882.

Mr H. Hawkins brought the hotel for £425 in late August 1887.

A destructive fire at the hotel on April 27, 1888, could have brought tragedy to town had it not been a narrow escape from the fire by Mrs. Austin and children.

Mr. Austin on April 30, 1888 was granted permission to carry on business in temporary premises for two months.

William Austin transferred the license of the hotel to Felix Galli on January 6, 1894, and ended a thirteen-year stint at the hotel.

Felix Galli transferred the license of the hotel to D. McDonald on July 24, 1894.

1901 Mr John Kelly as auctioneer leased the hotel to Harry Trist for a term of 5 years as well as selling the furniture and effects, goodwill and stock in trade to Mr Trist.

Former proprietor John Ferguson died in April 1901 at the age of sixty-five, Mr. Ferguson also ran the Railway Hotel.

In 1902, Harry Trist was fined for having a cask that did not have a duty stamp on it, the manager of the local brewery was fined for not putting the stamp on the cask.

A Bailiff acting on behalf of the Riverine Brewery Co. entered the premises in March 1903, the man was seen leaving as quickly as he entered and this was followed up by twelve men who attempted to enter the hotel, the licensee locked the gates and doors of the premises, and the men could not enter the hotel.

The hotel was leased to Frank Trist in March 1903 shortly after the incident with the Bailiff and the following twelve men.

In 1908, Frank Trist was accidentally mailed 20 tins of Opium that was intended for another Deniliquin location.

Commonwealth Football Club held their AGM (Annual General Meeting) at the hotel in late April of that year.

In 1911, The Independent had ads that Charles Langshaw was the licensee of the Hotel, assuming the ads started in 1911, they ran until 1914.

Mrs Langshaw in December 1911 found a man hiding under her bed after noticing the furniture in her room was disarranged, the man escaped with £14 in notes, gold and silver.

In 1920, E.T Matthews oversaw the sale of the Exchange, and it was brought by Margaret Langshaw.

William Jones was fined for having a person on his premises on Christmas Day 1923.

In 1927, Margaret Langshaw put the Exchange up for public auction on Thursday March 3, 1927.

The license for the Exchange Hotel was transferred to the Wakool Hotel in October 1928 and an auction of furniture and other household effects was held on October 30 and 31.

An auction was held on November 14, 1928, and described the place as Lot 2, Section 17 and described the Exchange as containing 22 rooms.

In 1929, The Hotel was reported to have been rebuilt and reopened under the guidance of Mr. Jack Grieve.

The hotel was described to have a total of twelve single and double bedrooms and were apart from the staff accommodation.

Jack Grieve transferred the license of the hotel to G. H. Guy in June 1930.

It was reported in July 1931 that water from the lagoon behind the hotel overflowed into the yard of the hotel.

Additions were made to the hotel in 1933 after a successful application was put in by Mr. P.F Phillips and the additions were described to be ‘a portion of an hotel, an old wooden structure which had been ordered to be abolished.

In 1936, former licensee Frank Trist died at the age of seventy-eight and it was that the Exchange ‘has been delicensed for some years’ though as we know the Exchange was very much still in business.

George H. Guy transferred the license of the Hotel to William Thomas Hart in June 1937.

William T. Hart transferred the license of the hotel to Walter Matuschka on June 2, 1938.

The license of the Hotel was transferred from Walter Matuschka to Mrs. Rose Gardner on March 9, 1939, the transfer was originally set for Fredrick John Kay, but it was withdrawn, Mr. Kay owned the freehold.

An application was made to connect the hotel sewerage system to the town system instead of a septic tank in use at the time, the application was granted with a time set for two months.

Mr. Langshaw died on November 30, 1939, at the age of seventy-six.

Mrs. Rose Gardner transferred the license of the hotel to Mrs. Mary Winifred Hammond on September 5, 1940.

Mrs. Langshaw died on July 13, 1946, at the age of eighty, it was reported that after the Exchange was sold, she retired to live privately.

Mary Winifred Hammond transferred the license to John Joesph O’Shea on June 17, 1947.

John Joesph O’Shea died in Deniliquin Hospital on September 8, 1953, after suffering a seizure at the hotel.

The hotel’s cellar has attracted interest as a cellar wall has what appears to be a bricked-up entrance point, if it is then where did it lead to and what was its purpose?

The Royal Hotel had at least three fires between 1858 and 1861 with the third fire resulting in a death when its stables were set alight.

The dimensions of the hotel expansion in 1861 were given as 71 feet long by 32 feet wide and when combined with the pre-1861 building gave a frontage of 110 feet.

The Royal Hotel had a Soda Water Manufactory which caught fire in June 1866, but the fire was put out in time for the hotel to avoid destruction.

Ginger Brandy, Ginger Wine, Soda Water, Sarsaparilla, Raspberry Syrup, Peppermint and Ginger Beer were among the choices offered at the Manufactory; this business was sold to George Elliott in 1867.

William Bignell applied for and was granted a license for the hotel on April 19, 1870.

In 1877, you could buy a pint of Ale for the price of 6d.

The license was reported to have lapsed by February 1878 with the hotel being called the Deniliquin Club-house.

Samuel Willis died at the hotel in July 1878, he was once the caretaker of the Mechanics Institute that was located in town.

A. L. Glasson obtained the license on June 7, 1884, and transferred it to J. W. Brace on May 30, 1885.

J.W. Brace transferred the license of the hotel to Charles B. Spearing on October 31, 1885.

In 1886, Henry Cheswick brought the hotel for £4100 at an auction in Melbourne, it was until that point owned by a limited liability company.

Charles B. Spearing transferred the license of the hotel to James Halliday Wilson on April 5, 1887.

James Halliday Wilson transferred the license of the hotel to Isabella Young on February 27, 1891.

A Judge was robbed at the Hotel in 1904 with money and an overcoat stolen.

A man was charged and fined for being on the premises during prohibited hours in April 1907.

Between 1911 and 1914 there was fighting over the ‘Royal Hotel Gardens’ as there was an attempt to enclose a section of Junction Street that had adjoined the hotel.

Mr. E. G. Sweet brought the freehold, building, furniture and goodwill of the Royal for £5000 in 1914.

In 1925, tenders were wanted for repairs, additions and alterations to the Hotel.

Mrs. Oxenham was injured in 1927 when she fell down the cellar stairs of the Hotel.

Thieves visited the hotel on Good Friday in 1927 and stole ten shillings and a five-pound note from two bedrooms.

H. W. Oxenham transferred the license of the hotel to Elizabeth Clarke in March 1929.

The Hotel made news in the 1930’s when a Cow decided to pay a visit, the cow made its way upstairs and into a bedroom before leaving the premises.

In 1936 a man was charged with stealing money from the bar counter.

In 1937 the license of the hotel was transferred from Mrs. L. Tuckwell to Mrs. E Clarke.

The license was transferred from A. L. C. Jones to Bernard James Rush on December 22, 1942.

In 1946, the hotel license was reported in The Independent to have transferred from S. T. Willoughby to Thomas Gregory Hooper.

In 1948 the proprietor of the Hotel was Mr. T. G. Hooper.

Mary Isobel Newton applied for and was granted a transfer of the hotel license from Donald Fredrick Washington to herself.

The licensing court in September 1954 ordered owner Mr. Gleeson to improve the hotel, this included repairing the roof, renew the fire escape, provide keys for all bedroom doors and more hot water storage.

The hotel was robbed in August 1956 with thirty pounds of cash and a similar amount in cheques stolen, the thieves got in through the street entrance to the cellar.

The freehold of the hotel was sold in November 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. Wise.

The license of the hotel was transferred from Mary Isobel Newton to Alfred Wise on January 10, 1957.

It was announced in January 1957 that 20 feet of Junction Street was enclosed in the hotel yard, it was believed that every owner from Mr. Sweet in 1914 onwards thought that it was part of the hotel property.

Cornelius Aldworth Hurley took over on the 18th of February 1958 and continued on until handing over to Alan Michael Ryan on the 19th of December 1960.

Travelana Holdings Ltd. made a takeover offer for Hotel Deniliquin Ltd. in June 1961, directors accepted the offer and recommended the offer to shareholders, Travelana plans involved the demolition of the hotel and replace it with a forty-room hotel-motel.

The Royal Hotel was demolished in 1962 during a decade in which the town lost the Court House Hotel, Tattersall’s Hotel and the Royal Hotel.

The Coach House Motor Inn was later built on the site, and it has traded as various names since.

Edward Maxwell Riley taken over the hotel on the 16th of October 1962 and handed over to William Arthur Freebody on the 23rd of February 1966.

In 1966, Toohey’s taken over Coach House Motor Inn Ltd and Hotel Deniliquin Ltd, the two companies owned hotels in five locations.

The hotel was part of the Zebra Group in 1975 and the phone number was 5881 1011 and there was 32 units to choose from.

The cellar of the hotel is rumoured to have a now cut off access point to the Exchange Hotel across the street.

On Wednesday September 27, 2000, the 1,915-acre property “Yarree” was auctioned at the Hotel, this is one example of the many auctions that were conducted at the location.

In August 2019, it was feared that the Coach House would have to close due to financial issues but fortunately for the town, this issue was solved, and business resumed by the week of August 18.

The Court House Hotel was a popular hotel that existed into the late 1960’s, the site of the Hotel is next to where Target is today.

William Kiely died while the hotel and the license was transferred to Ann Kiely in 1867 before Robert McCullough was listed as running the establishment the next year.

In 1869, Decimus Lamb taken over before Robert Harvey Pyke was listed in 1870 meaning that nobody held it for less than two years.

William Macdonald was listed in 1871 and began what was to become a long reign as the publican of the Hotel.

The body of John Taylor was brought to the hotel after his death at the Boxing Day races event in 1876, the inquest into his death was held at the hotel the next day.

In 1877, the Hotel’s clothesline was stripped of its linen during a series of property damage to Deniliquin’s hotels.

William Macdonald died in 1889 at the age of sixty-nine.

Eliza Macdonald taken over the license in 1890 and next to be listed was Elizabeth Brophy in 1892 and stayed until Henry J Poynter was listed in the 1896 edition and in 1898 edition James Lawson was listed as the Publican.

Henry Field was next listed when the Government Gazette of 1900 was released and Samuel James Outram was listed as running the Court House in 1901 and was last listed in 1909.

In 1910 Harry Trist was listed as running the hotel followed by Frank Trist in 1911 and Matthew Carew was listed in 1912 and John H Donovan taken over in December 1912.

Matthew Carew departed Deniliquin with his wife and family in December 1912 and headed to Melbourne.

Abbotsford Ale and Victoria Bitter were on offer at the Court House in 1914 with both of them guaranteed to be cold.

The owner around the time of Matthew Carew’s reign as licensee was Mrs. McLeod.

John Bellett was listed in 1914 and was the licensee until March 3, 1920, the license was transferred to Theresa Maher on that date.

In the mid 1920’s, A garage run by Doug Everitt opened at the rear of the Hotel and faced George Street.

The side of the hotel has confused those who looked at postcards and could see the side of the hotel facing down Cressy Street, as it looks like a giant house as seen in the above late 1930’s photograph.

Former licensee John Bellett died in Echuca during June 1933 at the age of sixty-eight.

Arthur Barnes was the licensee of the hotel for some years, and he died on February 2, 1938, at the age of fifty-one in Deniliquin.

Arthur Barnes was succeeded by Theresa Barnes on the 23rd of May 1938, and she was replaced by George F. K. Hall on the 9th of March 1939.

The license of the hotel was transferred from George F. K. Hall to James Bertram Jones on March 21, 1944

John Hayes was charged in 1946 for selling a bottle of Gibley’s Gin for more than the fixed price set by the National Prices Security (Prices) Regulations, the £1 bottle cost him £20 in fines plus costs.

An application to make alterations and improvements to the hotel was made in September 1946.

An amount between £600 and £700 (one report £760) said it was stolen from a safe at the hotel on January 9, 1949, the thieves stole the safe keys from the room of hotel licensee Max Henry while he slept, and they left the premises at around 3am.

A meeting of creditors was held at Town Hall on March 20th, 1964.

The Court House Hotel stood until 1967 when it was demolished, its demolition forever changed the landscape of Cressy Street.

Court House Hotel Pty Ltd was de-registered on the 20th of March 1967.

The license for the Camperdown Hotel was granted on February 17, 1877, to Mary Kearney.

The hotel was located in Harrison Street, which was then part of Duncan Street, The Camperdown is known to be seen in at least one photograph.

The Camperdown was first listed in the March 27, 1877, edition of the Government Gazette with a Publicans license for the hotel given to Mary Kearney.

In September 1877, a body was brought to the Camperdown and was identified by a worker of the Hotel as that of her husband who had disappeared a month earlier.

In 1878, a “To Let” notice was published in the Bendigo Advertiser and other newspapers with the ad stating that the hotel had twelve rooms.

It was reported in October 1878 that Mary Kearney transferred the license to Alfred Watson.

Alfred Watson’s license was cancelled on January 31, 1879, after failing to appear in court when summoned by police over abandoning his house licensed (hotel).

An auction was held on the premises of “late Camperdown Hotel” on February 11, 1880.

The building was mentioned in the December 1, 1928, edition of The Riverina Recorder said ‘The old Camperdown Hotel was now owned by the school’ – the school being St Michaels.

The building was demolished and reconstructed in 1939 to become the St. Michael’s Club.

The Live & Let Live is reportedly the 13th Hotel to have been built in Deniliquin throughout its history, its location was originally End Street which was later on partly turned into Maher Street.

Later on, the Hotel changed its name to the Brewers’ Arms Inn and continued trading.

Owners of the Brewers’ Arms included John Dickson and H.A Foster with Fredrick Fairchild being landlord in 1879 followed by George McLeod the same year.

William Johnson died at the hotel in May 1867.

In 1870, a man named Cother disappeared after stopping in at the Brewers Arms Inn, he was later found to have accidentally drowned in the southern lagoon.

It was a busy year in 1879 as the Brewer’s Arms made news when Fredrick Fairchild was fined £10 for allowing Prostitutes to assemble in his house.

Police Constable Robert Algie was charged with stealing a watch from a patron and George McLeod was fined £2 for selling after hours and a further £3 in July 1879 for allowing dice to be used in his house.

In 1887, An inquest was held to determine the cause of death of Thomas Warner who accidentally drowned in the Edward River.

The Brewer’s Arms later become a residential house and it still stands today as one of the few hotels that were transformed into a house and is still standing today.

The first found mention of the Highlander was in 1857 when a man named Henry Allen was charged with Larceny.

Listed for a time as the ‘Highlander and Irons’ Family Hotel’.

James Irons ran the hotel until 1865 and John Joseph Roberts started running the hotel later that year.

John A. Roat applied for a publican’s license to operate the hotel on April 19, 1870, the license was granted.

The license for the hotel was transferred to John O. Atkinson on November 26, 1872

John O. Atkinson was granted a music licence for Thursday and Friday nights in April 1874 and was granted a billiard license in June 1874.

John O. Atkinson transferred the license of the hotel to John F. Thompson in September 1876.

The license of the hotel was transferred from John T. Thompson to Robert Johnston on October 14, 1879.

Robert Johnston ran the Hotel from October 1879 until July 1882 when he returned to Echuca and the license was transferred to Mary Kearney on July 3, 1882.

Mary Kearney and Annie Elliot wounded brewer George Elliott with a carving knife in February 1883, Mary was arrested at the Commercial Hotel.

The Commercial Hotel was destroyed by fire on February 13, 1884, with Mary Kearney, Richard Marum, Mary Ann Marum and the Marum’s baby Catherine dying in the fire.

Annie Elliott, who was also at the hotel, escaped the fires by jumping through an open window and landing twenty feet below suffering a concussion.

The Commercial was considered by the Riverine Herald to be ‘one of the largest hotels in Deniliquin and considerably more commodious than any hotel in Echuca’.

John Adams on February 26 applied for the hotel’s Billiards license, which was approved, he also applied for the license of the hotel to be removed from the Commerical and given to the Bendigo Hotel, this was also approved.

Advertisements in March 1884 had the hotel to be either “For Sale or To Let on repairing lease. on easy terms”, it was also considered to be a bargain but made no mention that people died there.

In August 1884, Charles J. O’Brien was running the Hotel after the death of Mary Kearney.

Charles J. O’Brien had insolvency issues in September 1884

In December 1884, J.B Watson donated the Hotel to Deniliquin Hospital on the condition the property is not to be sold or alienated.

Frank Sparrow announced in September 1885 that he had opened the Australian Club Hotel at the premises formerly known as the Commerical.

An auction was conducted at the hotel in October 1886 to sell Mr. James Bulger’s land in Tuppal.

Sheep owners had a meeting at the hotel in June 1888 to consider matters.

A man named Scottie in July 1889 survived after falling into the river at the rear of the hotel, he was rescued by Francis Marshall.

Charles Finney’s license of the hotel was transferred to James Clarke on September 20, 1890.

James Clarke transferred the license of the hotel to Charles R. Reed on February 24, 1891.

Thomas Hirst Dobson’s Publicans license was cancelled on August 2, 1892.

The hotel was re-let by Deniliquin Hospital to James Sinclair in 1892 for the hotel to be converted into a Coffee Palace.

William Heriot purchased the lease of the Deniliquin Coffee Palace and converted it back into a hotel.

In September 1897, applications were invited for the lease of the hotel for a cost of 4 pounds per week.

Chris F. De Fraga was reported to have run the hotel for three years in 1901 and the hotel was a front-page fixture in The Independent.

The Independent reported in July 1901 that Mr De Fraga asked the Deniliquin Hospital for permission to transfer the license to A. Levy and the request was granted.

Robert Buist and Harry Cobden survived a twenty-foot fall in September 1901 when a red gum plank that served as scaffolding gave way and the two plummeted to the ground.

Mr. De Fraga died in May 1902 in Melbourne after suffering from Influenza, he had business interests in both Deniliquin and Prahran at the time of his death and he had died the age of 42.

The following year Mr Levy asked for his five-year lease of the hotel be extended to ten years.

Mr Levy transferred the license of the hotel to Mr R. A. Bazley on September 3, 1906, a few months after having run the hotel for five years.

Mr C. Carpenter was made the new licensee of the hotel in August 1911 although the license was also held by Elliot’s Riverine Brewery Co.

A crisis erupted in 1917 as the Hospital rejected an offer by the Brewery Co. and put the hotel up for tenders to bid for a five-year lease.

Thomas Doolan took over the hotel and in 1920 it was reported that Mr Doolan was granted an extension though there was disagreement about the terms being followed due to the hotel’s state of repair.

In 1921, the license of the Hotel was transferred from Mr Doolan to Mr. Fredrick Jager.

In 1924, Fredrick Jager transferred the license of the Hotel to Louis Thomas Bennett.

In 1930, an application was made and approved to sell the Hotel by the Deniliquin Hospital board to George Admans.

Tattersalls was closed for six weeks in 1931 after the license fee was paid.

In 1932, the license was transferred from Colin Jones to Thomas Mulray.

Two men were fined in March 1933 for being on licensed premises without reasonable excuse at 9pm on February 3 that year.

In 1934, the lease was sold by Thomas Mulray to Mr T. F. Welch.

T.F Welch in January 1936 transferred the lease of the hotel to Jas. Hall.

The hotel freehold was put up for auction on August 19, 1937.

In 1937, the Hotel license was transferred to Mr George Clyde Oddy.

In 1939, the license was transferred from John Moore Murphy to George Henry Myall Sellman.

On September 25, 1940, the license of the Hotel was cancelled, an appeal was lodged but was upheld on the condition that conditions were improved.

George Oddy on January 9, 1941, transferred the license of the hotel to Norman Wheedon.

In 1946, The license was transferred from Thomas Michael Clarke to Harry John Pill.

In 1946, an application for the complete demolition and rebuilding of Tattersall’s was made.

Next on the ownership/licensee list came Rita E. Blencowe and next to her name is a sale date of 23.1.1948.

Charles Harold Richman is next in line on the 20th of July 1949 and Lawrence Alexander Cockayne came aboard on the 21st of June 1950.

George Maxwell Jolly came along on the 17th of January 1951 before Rita Ellen Bluncowe was back on the 23rd of July 1952.

Tattersall’s Hotel remained standing until the 1960’s when it eventually made way for a Caltex Service Station, the stables however still stand though modified to suit current use.

Wanderer Inn

Was built in 1847 by Edward John Bloxham and was later owned by John Taylor in North Deniliquin.

‘Saltbush Country’ mentions the Hotel getting its license on July 8, 1847.

Mr. Bloxham made way for Mr. Britton in 1851.

The Wanderer was famously visited by Captain Melville in 1851 and his gang who stayed for several hours before leaving after a failed attempt to pick the pockets of a boarder they had waited on to fall asleep.

Mr. Britton had his license revoked in 1852 and the Wanderer was closed between that time and 1855.

The McKenzie brothers reopened the Inn in 1855, and G. Whipple taken over in 1858.

The Inn was mentioned in now archived newspapers in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860 with Mr. Whipple mentioned as running the Inn.

John Robertson taken over by 1861 and he made way as licensee to R. D. Filson in 1866 and then John Taylor.

The Inn hosted a Grand Ball on January 17th, 1867, for the benefit of Mr. J. C. Perrott with dancing commencing at 9pm that night.

Jeremiah Sullivan was the last person to run the Inn when he took over operations in 1867.

The Wanderer Inn burnt down on the evening of July 25th, 1867, and the site of the Inn later became part of Deniliquin North Public School almost a century later.

The inquest into the fire was held at the Sportsman’s Arms Inn in August 1867 with the jury finding that the Inn was deliberately set on fire by William Cadman, the trial was held in 1868.

William Cadman was acquitted of the charge in January 1868.

The first record in the archived papers online is from 1868 with Daniel Smith the landlord.

The hotel was mentioned as being on the corner of Victoria Street and Wanderer Street.

Daniel Smith’s license was cancelled on April 19, 1870, having abandoned his house (the hotel).

It was reported in August 1875 that the Belmore Arms ‘after many years untenanted’ was ‘again opened as an Inn’ under Thomas McMillan.

The landlord of the hotel, Charles Llewellen lost his wife to suicide by drowning in 1877.

Daniel Smith was awarded a license to run the hotel in 1877.

A forged cheque was cashed in at the hotel in October 1879, they had also cashed cheques at other establishments in town.

Mr. Giovanni Giuleri applied for and was granted a license for the Belmore Arms Hotel on September 9, 1879.

The Garibaldi Arms was ‘To Let’ in 1881.

Mr Giulieri reportedly died in Echuca in August 1899 whilst seeking medical treatment, he was listed as the owner and licensee of the Sandhurst.

A kitchen fire killed Mrs. Mary Giuleri at the Hotel in October 1901, she died ten days after the accident.

Three locals who were soldiers in the Boer War attended a gathering in their honour at the hotel in June 1902.

Charles Giuleri Giulieri was listed as running the Sandhurst in 1905.

The Independent in 1905 reported the auctioning of the hotel, the hotel came with two and a half acres of adjoining land, all of which was securely fenced, the auction was to take place on March 2, 1905.

Mary Jane Giuleri died at the hotel on May 16, 1905.

In 1906 the same ad that appeared in 1905 appeared in The Independent, this time the auction was set for February 8, 1906.

A man was found at the hotel on June 16th, 1907, during prohibited hours and was fined £1 or seven-days jail.

A man died after falling over and hitting his head outside the hotel in September 1907, the man had reportedly entered the hotel in a drunken state and left after being refused service.

In 1911, John Moroney was listed as running the Sandhurst and the license was transferred to Barham that year to become the Royal Hotel in that that town.

The closure of the Sandhurst brought down the hotel total in the area down from 19 to 18 hotels.

After 1911, there were reports in The Independent reporting a collapsed drain between the old hotel and the North Deniliquin Police Station in 1917 and 1920.

John Moroney died in April 1915 in Melbourne just four years after leaving Deniliquin.

In 1924, the building was again mentioned in a report stating, ‘gutter from the old Sandhurst Hotel along Victoria Street to Hyde Street properly formed with grader’.

Charles Giulieri died in 1935 in Sydney.

The hotel was reportedly located somewhere near or on where DNPS now stands.

Recorded as Bee-Hive and Beehive Hotel and was located in Cressy Street.

Charles Willoughby applied for and was granted a license for the hotel in November 1876 with an “Opening Free Ball” held at the hotel on November 24, 1876.

Charles Willoughby was listed as running the Hotel throughout its existence.

Ads of the hotel had the following;

In this hive we are all alive,
Whisky makes man funny;
If you are dry step in and try
The flavour of my honey

Mr. Willoughby in 1878 believed that the valuation of the premises was excessive, the rate was confirmed.

Mr. Willoughby in 1879 described the hotel as being about halfway between the Bridge Hotel and the White Lion.

Advertisements put the Hotel within three hundred yards of the railway.

The Railway Hotel was the site of a public meeting in 1873 to form a company to construct a railway from Deniliquin to Moama, the company was called ‘Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company’.

August Mulham applied for a license for the Railway Hotel in November 1876

The Hotel went from W Davis to William Davies, Mr. Davies also brought the Bush Inn in 1882 and the yard of the Bush Inn and the Railway Hotel was turned into the one yard.

W. J. Davies transferred the license of the hotel from himself to John Fergusson on March 3, 1890.

John Fergusson transferred the license of the hotel to W. J. Davies on September 1, 1895.

W. J. Davies transferred the license of the hotel to Edward Reynolds on July 2, 1895.

Mentions of the Railway Hotel stopped in 1901 with John William Webb running the Railway.

It is believed that the Kyneton came into existence in 1901 as the first located record for the Kyneton Club Hotel reported that Michael John Kelly was running the Hotel in 1902 who ran it at least until 1911.

A trough was placed in front of the hotel in 1902 after it was approved by council.

In 1906, a man named Perkins was assaulted at the hotel.

The rental value of the hotel was reported in the Independent as £84 and 10s.

A man died by suicide at the hotel in 1911, he had taken poison and died in the parlour of the hotel.

In 1912, George H. Guy was listed as running the Hotel.

In May 1915, a meeting was held on the issue of re-forming the Railway Football Club.

The Kyneton Club Hotel survived the mass de-licensing of 1922 but was reportedly de-licensed in the 1930’s.

In June 1922, the Hotel was sold by Mr John Bellett to Reuben Green.

Michael John Kelly died in Yarrawonga in 1923, he was fifty-seven years old.

The Hotels latrines were reported to have been in a bad state in 1926 with trough and floor needing repairs and the floor required cementing.

In February 1927, Henry Leetham was found to be on the premises during prohibited hours and was fined £1 with 8/- costs.

The Riverine Grazier of August 31, 1928, reported that Reuben Green’s application for the license of the Kyneton Club Hotel to be transferred to a spot opposite St. Michael’s Church (where Orana is) was approved despite Church objections.

The front of the new hotel building would have faced the railway station.

An appeal against the granting of the transfer was dismissed in November 1928.

In October 1931, it was reported that the Kyneton Club Hotel license was brought by A. A. Armstrong with the license transferred to the Exchange Hotel.

In 1932, it was revealed that the Kyneton Club Hotel that was supposed to be built opposite St. Michael’s Church was not built due to complications.

An application to temporarily re-open the Hotel as the bar of the Railway Hotel was made in November 1932 but was objected to by the nearby Catholic Church.

The 1932 application report is helpful for those who don’t have photos of the area as it describes the Kyneton Club being ‘six chains’ (120.7 metres) away from the Railway Hotel and says that next to the Kyneton Club was the McCulloch building which is now St. Vincent de Paul’s (Vinnies).

A second application was made in 1933 for the Hotel to temporarily be re-opened as the Railway Hotel bar as the Railway Hotel was being rebuilt but was denied after members of the Catholic Church and the Police objected to the application.

Former licensee John Bellett died in Echuca in June 1933 at the age of 68.

A truck crashed into the deep gutter in front of the old Kyneton Club Hotel in July 1934 breaking one of the front wheels.

Like the Pig & Whistle, the Hotel was turned into flats and was still standing in the 1970’s before being demolished for businesses.

H. J. Young applied for his license to be transferred from the Hill Plain Hotel to the Railway Refreshment Rooms at Deniliquin in December 1876, the application was granted.

There is a record for a Railway Station Hotel in 1877 which is presumed to be the Refreshment Rooms.

H. J. Young transferred the license to C. Fergusson in May 1878.

Herman Altvater ran the Railway Station Hotel in 1879, the license was transferred to Mary Kearney in April 1880 as Mr. Altvater moved to Sandhurst (Bendigo).

Mary Kearney ran the Hotel from 1880 until July 1882.

In 1883, James Sinclair started running what was now known as the Railway Refreshment Rooms and in May 1884, William White was transferred the license and ran it until 1889.

In 1890, Francis Sparrow was listed as running the rooms, Charles Rowbottom was next listed in 1892 followed by Alexander B. Rae in 1894-95, Katharine L Hennessey took over and was running the rooms until James Spark was listed as running the rooms in 1902.

A man was found guilty of stealing from the bar of the hotel in October 1906.

Charles Carpenter took over from George Clyde Oddy in 1921 and ran it until the fire in 1924.

It was reported in 1921 that the Railway Station Hotel had better accommodation than the nearby Carriers’ Rest Hotel, this helped keep the hotel running during the mass de-licensing.

Destroyed in 1924 fire, the license of the rooms was transferred to the premises of the former Carrier’s Rest Hotel to become the Railway Hotel.

Planned name of the Hotel was Kings Arms but due to the popularity of Queen Victoria it was opened on Hay Road in 1878 as the Imperial Hotel.

John King was granted a publican’s license for the hotel on July 12, 1878.

The first entry of the Imperial Hotel in the Government Gazette was in the August 27, 1878, edition which named John King as the publican and records were steady from then on.

In September 1878, two men were arrested for forging and uttering with the second individual charged with being an accessory after handing over a £5 cheque to Mr. King.

It appears after the 1884 edition of the Government Gazette, the Imperial Hotel was no longer was in the record books.

The Imperial Hotel stood until 1970 and The Imperial was reconstructed in 1987 as part of Pioneer Tourist Park.

Was located in Napier Street and is certain to have stood where Vinnies operates now.

Mentioned in December 1878 as the next hotel in the street from the Carrier’s Rest Hotel where a man purchased two bottles with a forged £10 cheque signed in the name of George Elliot.

Mary Kearney was the landlady of the Bush Inn in 1878, Mrs. Kearney would die in 1884 in the Commercial Hotel fire.

Mary Kearney in April 1879 was charged with abandoning her licensed house and did not appear, an order was given to cancel the license.

The Sheriff in mid-April 1879 sold the right, title and interest of Alfred Watson, in and to the land and premises known as the Bush Inn to Thomas Johnston for 7 pounds and 10 shillings.

May 1879 saw advertisements for the sale of the right, title and interest of the land that had the ‘well known and substantially built HOTEL called the Bush Inn’.

In July 1879, an application made by a man named Bassett was refused.

In October 1879 there was a report the London Chartered Bank brought an ejectment case against a Mr Bastett (Bassett?) for the Bush Inn property.

Decimus Lamb was granted a license for the Inn in December 1879 and was still running the Inn when a clearing out sale was held in January 1882.

Decimus Lamb was recorded in 1882 as being formerly of Deniliquin and he died in 1918.

In 1882 the Bush Inn was sold to Mr William Davies at a price that was considered ‘satisfactory’.

The yard of the Bush Inn was combined with the yard of the Railway Hotel while the inn itself was unlicensed and was made into a home for private boarders, private families and country visitors.

Planned for in 1878 by Mr Sehested as Schestedt’s Continental Hotel.

In 1880, two people were found guilty of committing larceny of goods from the hotel.

An ad in the Argus on January 26, 1881, called for tenders for the purchase or lease of the hotel as J.H Sehestedt was retiring in consequence of his failing health.

J.H Sehestedt died on April 21, 1882, after what was described to be a long and painful illness.

Rosa Sehestedt continued on with the hotel after the death of J.H Sehestedt.

The license of the hotel was transferred from Helen Mary O’Loughlin to Michael O’Loughlin in April 1885.

In 1885, the Deniliquin and Echuca teams had a celebration at the hotel after Deniliquin won by one wicket.

The license of the hotel was transferred from M. O’Loughlin to James Sinclair on June 5, 1885, a Billiards license was also granted to Mr. Sinclair on that same date.

Mr. Sinclair had an accident in April 1888 when his horse stepped into a hole and flung Mr. Sinclair off resulting in Mr. Sinclair suffering a broken collarbone.

A sale was conducted at the hotel on May 22, 1888, before James Sinclair’s lease of the hotel expired on June 1, 1888.

Tenders were called for the hotel for alterations to be made to the building, the cut-off date was October 5, 1888.

In 1889, it was reported that the A.J.S Bank was now established in the premises formerly known as the Continental Hotel.

It was reported in October 1932 that Dr. Whitehead purchased the building from the Bank of Commerce (now known as Westpac), after Dr. Whitehead it was owned by the WC&IC before it was purchased by the Chong’s who opened a Restaurant, it later became Ho’s and then it became a house.

The building was purchased in 2025 with rumoured plans of a re-establishment of a restaurant there.

Was located at George & Cressy Street and the license for the hotel was granted to John Waring on July 5, 1860.

Mentioned in 1861 report as the site of a meeting regarding the separation of the Riverina from the colony of New South Wales.

Fredrick Marshall transferred the license of the Hotel to Decimus Lamb in 1867.

The Governor visited Deniliquin in July 1868 and the hotel was decorated appropriately for the occasion.

Fredrick Marshall applied to transfer the license of the hotel from Decimus Lamb to himself in May 1868.

Decimus Lamb was declared insolvent, he later turned up at the Court House Hotel and the Bush Inn.

Fredrick Marshall in 1870 announced the hotel was a Temperance Hotel which meant that while it was still a hotel, it did not serve alcohol to patrons.

Fredrick Marshall transferred the license of the hotel to George Lloyd on December 10, 1877.

George Lloyd was summoned for abandoning his licensed house on September 10, 1879, he did not appear, and his license was cancelled.

Mary Mahon applied for and was granted a license for the hotel on October 14, 1879.

In 1880, Mary Mahon’s daughter died of shock a day after falling into a boiler filled hot water at the hotel.

Former owners John Waring and Fredrick Marshall died in 1885 and 1886 respectively.

A hotel at the hotel was damaged at 2am one morning in 1888.

Mary Mahon died at the hotel on February 13, 1890, at the age of forty-eight, her death was said to be ‘peaceful and happy’ after a long and protracted illness.

D. Mahon was granted permission to carry on the license of the hotel until the license expired on June 30, 1890.

In 1895, a fire was reported at an old hotel in George Street, this may have been the St George, the fire did not result in the destruction of the building.

The building was deemed not tenantable and unsafe in March 1900 and could not be given a value.

Mr. J. Geraghty on June 21, 1906, sold his weatherboard property known as “The Old George Hotel” together with a two-storey stable built of slabs with the whole lot to be removed.

A. J. Whitelock brought most of the timber taken from the hotel and the site was later occupied by Collins & Sons’ cordial factory.

A 1908 article on ‘Early Deniliquin Memories’ reported that ‘ this old place was pulled down about three years ago’

The Pastoral Times reported in 1939 that few people remembered that there used to be a hotel on that site.