Australian History

[Magilla]

Jetty's?

 

[goldtruck59]

breweries? or theatres

 

[PabloP]

Barrels

Rob

 

[Bacchus]

Good thread guys

Ships

 

[Metamorphic]

Carpenters

 

[Ramjet]

Good thread guys

Ships

Bacchus has it. More ships built in Hobart in 1840 than in the rset of Australia put together. Once again I have left the book with the details at work :8 I'll post the details when I get to work tonight.

All yours Bacchus.

 

[Bacchus]

Who am I

I roamed northern Victoria in the late 1800's , a renowned hard man and bare knuckle fighter who cleared the bar with a trademark catchphrase .

Name and catchphrase please

 

[PabloP]

Ned Kelly: The country belongs to us, and we'll go where ever we like

Rob

 

[Magilla]

"Men first, dogs come last" Asaiah "Wild" Wright. He is the guy that had a bare knuckle fight with Ned Kelly.

 

[Bacchus]

Good try Rob , not correct , but Ned did beat the tripe out of him in a twenty round bare knuckle toe to toe in 1871

Which gives Magilla the Baton well done

From " Ned Kelly " by Peter Fitzsimons

Isaiah " Wild " Wright " a great bony man with a breat bony face and the fiercest pair of eyes you would ever see " "his joy was to find a crowded hotel and barge his way towards the bar shoving the drinkers every which way while growling Men first , dogs come last "

 

[Goldpick]

Ship builders?

 

[Magilla]

I have that book and remember the cry well. Don't think much of Fitzy but the book is the best I have read on the Ned Kelly story.

A nice easy one, what was the first name given to the mainland of this great country we live in?

 

[Magilla]

European name that is.

 

[Bacchus]

Terra Australis ?

 

[Ramjet]

New Holland

 

[Bacchus]

New Holland ?

 

[Magilla]

That would be three no's.

 

[Magilla]

Bit early for a clue but I will say I was surprised to learn about this when I was in Amsterdam about 18 months ago.

 

[Bacchus]

Batavia ?

 

[Magilla]

No Bacchus, earlier than that.