Saturday, October 5, 2024

1886

MOORE'S ALMANAC - GULGONG
This municipal township is distant about twenty miles from Mudgee, and is the centre of the once famous Gulgong goldfield, which is now becoming a large and increasing agricultural district.
  • Magistrates— P. Snape, P.M.; R. Rouse, R. Rouse, junr., C. M. Lowe, J. F. Plunkett, S. T. Bishop, S. A. Blackman, G. Rouse
  • Clerk of Petty Sessions, Mining Registrar, Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Agent for Curator of Intestate Estates, and Registrar of Small Debts Court— H. De Boos
  • Coroner and Warden— P. Snape Warden’s Clerk— H. De Boos
  • Sub-Inspector of Police— Miles Burns
  • Post and Telegraph Master— Hugh Malone
  • Surgeon— J. P. Kealy; also Government Medical Officer
  • Hospital: Surgeon—J. P. Kealy Secretary—C. Ode
  • Municipal Council: Mayor— G. Turner; Council Clerk— E. McCulloch
  • Gulgong Agricultural Association: President— C. R. Young; Secretary—S. T. Bishop
  • Principal Storekeepers—C. R. Young, F. W. Russell, M. Marks, R. Brown
  • Principal Hotels —J. Powell’s, Moverly’s, Moir’s, Shannon’s, Mary Powell’s, Holden’s, Mason’s, Hewitt’s
  • Banks: A.J.S.—Manager, George Ramsay N.S.W—Manager—Harold D. Voss
  • Chemist— C. Zimmler, M.P.S. 
  • Poundkeeper— Wm. Gaudry
  • Steam Flour Mill — William Lee 
  • Newspaper— “People’s Advocate
  • Auctioneers— Plunkett and Co., S. T. Bishop, W. Wesley
Source: Moore's Australian almanac and hand-book for the year ...(1886)