John Robert Falconer was listed as holding a publicans license for the ‘Bushman’s Home’ at Laheys Creek. Its location is shown on a Lands Department survey in 1879, which details an inn and stables erected on Portion 37 in the parish of Dapper.
NEWS ITEMS
1871 - [PUBLICAN]
Publicans’ Licenses, issued from the 1st February to 31st March, 1871 in the DUBBO DISTRICT:
1871 - [PUBLICAN]
Publicans’ Licenses, issued from the 1st February to 31st March, 1871 in the DUBBO DISTRICT:
Name Situation Sign of HouseFalconer Jno. Robert Lahey's Creek Bushman's Home
Source: New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930) Wed 26 Apr 1871 [Issue No.17] Page 111
1873 - [INQUEST]
An inquest was held at the Bushman's Home, Lahey's Creek, Gulgong, on Saturday. The inquest was held on the body of a young man named John Renton, who had been violently, dashed against a tree while galloping along the road in a state of intoxication on the previous Sunday evening, when he received such injuries as resulted in his death on the following Thursday. The evidence of several witnesses disclosed the fact that drink had been the principal cause of the accident, as it appears that he left his home at Cobbora on the afternoon in question, and rode a distance of some ten miles to the inn at which the inquest upon his body was held, where he met some friends, and drank seven or eight glasses of brandy, after which he became intoxicated, and mounted his horse to proceed home with two companions whom he had met at the public house.
They rode on for about a mile, but the deceased seemed to be very drunk, and almost unable to sit his horse: however, just as he came to the foot of a hill he galloped away and, mounting the hill, disappeared from the sight of those who were with him. When they came up to where he was lying after, being brought into contact with the tree and thrown from his horse on to the road they found him insensible, and his mare running loose, across the bush. The soberest of the two caught the mare, tied her up, and then they both left the deceased lying in the road. One of his companions confesses that he was so drank that he could net remember how he got home; the other says, "I left him because I did not think he was hurt; and, I thought he might have got off". The deceased's brother was informed of the state of affairs next morning by: the mail-man and he, in company with a young man named Nagle started for the scene of the accident at once. They borrowed a cart from the public house; and removed the unfortunate man thence, where he was attended by a doctor, but he never recovered consciousness, before he died on Thursday. There was a bruise on deceased's neck extending to the ear and near to where he, lay on the road there was a mark on a large sapling.
1874 - [PUBLICAN]
THE following Return of Publicans' Licenses, which have been issued for the year commenced 1st July, 1874, and ending 30th June, 1875, is published for general information:
DUBBO DISTRICTName Situation Sign of HousePiper James W Lahey's Creek Bushman's Home
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1878 - [PUBLICAN]
THE following Return of Publicans' Licenses, which have been issued from the 1st to the 31st October, 1878, upon Certificates granted at Special Meetings, and which expire on 30th June, 1879, is published for general information.
DUBBO DISTRICTName Situation Sign of HouseFalconer Job Levers At Lahey's Creek The Bushman's Homeon the road betweenDubbo and Gulgong
