1912
29 May 1912
FIRE AT CULLENBONE.
HOTEL AND STORE DESTROYED.
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
Cullenbone Hotel, situated nine miles from Mudgee, together with an adjoining store, were completely destroyed by fire this morning. Two other premises were saved with difficulty1
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31 May 1912
FIRE NEAR MUDGEE.
HOTEL BURNED DOWN. MUDGEE, Tuesday.
Cullenbone Hotel, nine miles from Mudgee, conducted by Mr. John Murray, was burned to the ground, as was also a store adjoining, while a butcher's shop was partly burned. All the furniture and goods in the shop were burned, and every article of wearing apparel consumed. A sum of £23 in a chest of drawers was burned. The building was owned by Mrs. B. Beames, of Craboon, and insured for £500 in the Mercantile Mutual, and the goods and furniture in the same company for £7002
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1923
23 March 1923
FIRE "DOPE"
Attempt to Burn Hotel
MUDGEE, Thursday.
Using cotton waste steeped in kerosene as a kindling, an incendiary made an attempt to burn down the Cullenbone Hotel, near Mudgee, last night.
The outbreak was discovered through smoke fumes coming through the open window of the dining-room into the room where the licensee, Mr. Percy Barton, and his wife slept.
When the fire was extinguished with the aid of buckets of water a large hole was found to have been burnt in the side wall and much of the timber scorched.
The saturated waste was placed alongside the bottom of the board building on the outside. Had the window not been open, permitting the smoke to pass through, the building probably would have been destroyed. The police visited the scene with a black-tracker, but were unable to pick anything definite out of the confusion of footprints in the locality3
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16 November 1923
Owner
Robert Beames, “Glenroy” Woy Woy” 1/1/20
Mrs. Beames, 65 New Canterbury Rd. Petersham.
Licensee
Percy Barton 1/1/20
Mortgage
Mrs.Beames, “Hereford” Rylstone St., Coogee. 1/1/20
Mrs. Beames, 65 New Canterbury Rd., Petersham. 10/8/23
General
Dep. Closed 16/11/234
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