Licensee
1861-1864 – Dennis Kennedy
Location
Sapling Point. Sapling Point is described as below Crown Flat1Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal (NSW: 1888-1954), Saturday 22 December 1888, p 2
In the News
In February 1861, the Sydney Morning Herald2Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), Tuesday 5 February 1861, p 3 reported ‘At Sapling Point, between Crown Flat and Reedy Flat, Kennedy and party have bottomed, and have obtained an excellent prospect, with three feet of wash dirt.’
On 2 November 1863, the Araluen Star3Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 7 November 1863, p 2 included the following birth notice ‘… at her residence, Sapling Point Inn, Araluen, the wife of Mr. Dennis Kennedy, of a daughter’.
The Araluen Spring Race meeting was scheduled to be held 6, 7, and 8 October 1863, and advertised in the Araluen Star 4Araluen 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”. 5Bell’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 6Pastoral 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 7Empire (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”.
In an advertisement placed in the Araluen Star in December 1863, the Sapling Point Hotel is described as ‘splendid accommodation offered, along with Wines, Spirits, Ales and Cordials‘.8Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 26 December 1863, p 1
In May 1864, the Araluen Star9Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 21 May 1864, p 2 reported ‘a New Public House, stating that Mr Kennedy of the Sapling Point Hotel, is busy at Newton, next to Maher’s Store, building a new Public House, where he intends to carry on business instead of at Sapling Point.
In July 1864, The Araluen Star10Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday 2 July 1864, p 2 reported License Transfers, stating that ‘Mr Kennedy has applied to remove his license from Sapling Point Hotel, to the new house (Australian Arms) he is erecting at Newtown.’