Licensees
1859-1865 – Frederick Scantlebury, (1860 – Licence Number 499. NRS 14403 [7/1512]; Reel 1241)
1861 – Edward Goodenough
1865-1876 – Anthony Hoskings
Location
Crown Flat, opposite Mr Eaton’s store.
Historical Maps1NSW Land Registry Service, Parish and Historical Maps. Historical Land Records Viewer https://www.nswlrs.com.au/Parish-and-Historical-Maps Accessed 18 February 2023. indicate the lands purchased by Anthony Hosking were Portions 233 and 234.
| Purchased | Por | Plan | Loc | Vol | Fol | Pub | |
| Hosking Anthony | 7 March 1868 | 233 | 577 | SE | 64 | 1 | Rose and Crown |
| Hosking Anthony | 7 March 1868 | 234 | 577 | SE | 63 | 250 | Rose and Crown |
In the News
In July 1859, the Empire reported2Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850-1875), Tuesday 5 July 1859, p 2 ‘considerable excitement was caused at Lower Araluen and more especially about the Clear-hills, on a report being spread that gold had been found in paying quantity, in the government land above Mr. Scantlebury’s public-house, some excellent “prospects”, had been got out and so eager were the diggers to take up claims that candles were lighted and figure’s might be seen flitting here and there with tomahawk and pegs making the boundaries of claims’.
Dated 23 August 1859, an advertisement was placed in the Braidwood Observer 3Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW: 1859 – 1862), Saturday 27 August 1859, page 4 by Frederick Scantlebury for the Rose and Crown Hotel, York Street, Crown Flat, Lower Araluen.
The Estate of Frederick Scantlebury, of Crown Flat, Middle Araluen, and publican was declared insolvent in 18614New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832-1900), Tuesday 5 March 1861 (No.53), p 566. Frederick was noted as the publican at the Steam Engine Hotel, in Redbank in 1865.
In September 1861 Frederick Scantlebury placed an advertisement in the Braidwood Observer 5Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW: 1859 – 1862), Wednesday 25 September 1861, page 1 to notify that, he was again the licensee of the ‘well known restaurant,[Rose and Crown, Crown Flat] …having overcome the pecuniary difficulties he experienced in consequence of the floods’ and having obtained a license transfer from Edward Goodenough. In an advertisement for the Crown Flat Smithy6Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW: 1859 – 1862), Saturday 12 October 1861, page 4also dated September 19th 1861, the transfer of the Smithy, from Frederick Scantlebury, to Patrick Cahill and Richard Frost, was published.
In February 1862, an inquest was held at Mr Scantlebury’s Rose and Crown Hotel7Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), Tuesday 11 February 1862, p 5 following the sudden death of Mr Frederick Muller, barber, of Crown Flat, Araluen. The verdict returned was ‘an overdose of morphia and detailed that the deceased was in a very advanced stage of disease.’
An advertisement was placed in the Araluen Star,8Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 10 October 1863, p 1 advising of a Public meeting planned to be held at the Mr Scantlebury’s Rose and Crown in October 1863, to determine interest in establishing a Branch Lodge of the Odd-Fellowship Friendship Society.
The Araluen Spring Race meeting was scheduled to be held 6, 7, and 8 October 1863, and advertised in the Araluen Star 9Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863- 1964), Supplement, Saturday 26 September 1863, page 2, which details the “The Stewards for the race – Messrs John Hogan [Free Section Inn], James Armstrong [Peace and Plenty], Frederick Scantlebury [Rose and Crown], Henry Cummins, Dennis Kennedy[Sapling Point], Alexander Waddell, Patrick Egan [Poor Man’s Inn], Mr [James] Munro [Emu Inn] and James Singer[Criterion]”. Bells adds when reporting on the Court case in November of that year “The whole of the stewards, with two exceptions, are innkeepers at Araluen. Seven out of nine are innkeepers”. 10Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (NSW : 1860 – 1870), Saturday 28 November 1863, page 4
In what became known as the Araluen Race Case in 1863, the Echuca and Moama Chronicle 11Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle (Deniliquin, NSW : 1863 – 1866), Saturday 28 November 1863, page 3 summarised that “An action was brought last week by Miss Dickson nominally against … stewards of the Araluen races, to recover the sum of £30, the amount of the Consolation Stakes, won by her horse Kildare, on the third day of the meeting, but Mr. F. A. Cooper, lately Gold Commissioner at Araluen, and Dr. Wilson’s opponent at the last election, was regarded as virtually the defendant. “ “The jury had retired for a very short time when they came in with a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.” detailed the Empire, adding 12Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), Tuesday 24 November 1863, page 3 upon the verdict being announced , the crowded court “required all the exertion’s of the police and the remonstrance’s of his Honor to keep down the manifestations of satisfaction therewith”.
On the 6 February 1864, the Sydney Morning Herald13Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Monday 22 February 1864, p 1 reported that ‘a daughter, Margaret E., was born to (Margaret) Scantlebury, at her residence, Crown Flat Araluen.‘ Margaret E. later died as an infant in 1864.14NSW Government, https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au 3231/1864 and 3195/1864 An advertisement was placed in the Araluen Star, dated 11 March 1864 15Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 12 March 1864, p 3 by Frederick Scantlebury, addressed to his friends in Araluen and Braidwood, and thanking them for their tribute of esteem, in following his late deceased wife Margaret, aged 31, to her graveside in Braidwood.
In March 1866, the Empire16Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850-1875), Saturday 3 March 1866, p 8 reported further late outrages by the Bushrangers in Araluen stating ‘at 8 o’clock on Friday evening four men, disguised in the usual way, presented themselves at the bar of Hoskins’ public-house, at Crown Flat, opposite Mr. Eaton’s store, and after having made the persons present submit themselves to be searched they only found a few shillings upon two of them, but from Mr. Eaton, who was present, they took about £20 or £21 in notes, and his watch and chain.’
Mrs Eliza Watson’s reminiscences in 191217Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912-1938), Wednesday 17 July 1912, p 23 that the principal houses ‘were the O’Connell Arms, London Inn, Half way House, Sapling Point Hotel, Criterion Hotel, Rose and Crown, Free Selection Inn, Araluen Arms, Northumberland Arms, Pick and Shovel Inn, Racecourse Hotel, Currency Lad, and Peace and Plenty Inn. Some of these places were conducted by storekeepers, who paid upwards of £30 per ton for the haulage of goods from Moruya and Nelligen‘.
In a 1866, the Empire article titled Shooting of a Horse-stealer by the Apprehending Constable18Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850-1875), Saturday 5 May 1866, p 5 it was reported that ‘Mr. Anthony Hoskins, publican of Crown Flat, missed a horse, saddle, and bridle, and being told that it was taken by a man named Michael Riley, he went in pursuit and found Riley with the horse. Following an altercation Hoskins returned later with Constable McGlone, and they then tracked Riley, who was now on foot, near, to Knaggs’s hut Biddidivine, or Betonynd.‘ Mr Riley was fatally shot. ‘McGlone finding that Riley would not surrender, and that he kept advancing towards him with a drawn knife, fired his revolver, the bullet taking effect in the left side.’
Anthony Hoskins – Innkeeper is noted in the 1875–76 Greville’s Official Post Office Directory19Greville’s Official Post Office directory for 1875–1876 https://www.ihr.com.au/secure/html/greville75.html. Accessed 18 February 2023, p 18 in Araluen.
In September 1877, the Freeman’s Journal,20Freeman’s Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850-1932), Saturday 1 September 1877, p 9 reported ‘Black Thursday, as one of your country correspondents facetiously termed it, has passed away, and with it Hoskins’ public house, and Johnson’s billiard table. We are now in possession of only five pubs, and no billiard table. What a change! Where are the 35 public-houses that once stood in Araluen, not a stone’s throw from each other?’