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Charles Dee of the Junction Inn advertising to employ a
blacksmith in October 1839
General meeting of the Subscribers of
the Church and Parsonage Fund held at the Inn in August 1840
John Hart was proprietor at the 'Junction Inn by 1842. In 1843 he
advertised for a dray and team of working bullocks with bows,
yokes and chains
(65). In April 1846 he
decided to refurbish the building and advertised for plasterers to tender for the contract
of plastering the two storied house
(64)
In September of that year he
was seriously injured outside his house. He had been summoned for jury
duty at the Assizes in Maitland and while running to catch the steamer,
which was passing his house at the time, he tripped on a stone and fell
with great force against the ground. He received a serious wound over
the eye and was unconscious for a time rendering him unable to attend
the Circuit court
(66)
Two months later
the papers carried the following report:
On Tuesday morning
last Mr. Hart, publican, of the Junction Inn,
Raymond Terrace was missed from his house when the
family rose from their beds. The matter was the more
serious as his clothes that he had worn on the
preceding day were found lying about his bedroom in
the same position, seemingly, as when he had thrown
them off him on the preceding night. From these
circumstances as well as from the fact of footsteps
having been found on the river bank, it was surmised
that he had either fallen or thrown himself into the
river. Boats were immediately employed to drag the
river in that neighbourhood; and the
Rose steamer, in
passing the same morning, fired a gun, in the hope
tat that would raise the body, but without effect.
Towards one o'clock in the afternoon, however, the
body was found near the punt wharf. It was dressed
in a shirt and trousers alone, and appeared to have
been many hours immersed in the water.
In 1849 a sale of 100
head of horses and 600 head of cattle took place at the Inn by order of
the Mortgagees
(67)
The Junction Inn - Newcastle Photo Bank
(64) MM 11 April
1846
(65) MM 4 February
1843
(66)MM 19
September 1846
(67)MM 7 July 1849
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