At the end of April, the Yass Courier announced that a sale of allotments would be held on the 28th May. A total of 77 Allotments would be offered for sale.
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The area would be from one to two roods each and the upset price would be £20 per acre.
In the same issue of the Yass Courier it was announced that the new town was to be known as ‘Young’, in honour of his Excellency the Administrator of the Government.
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A report in the Yass Courier of 15 May informed readers that £7.10s. per foot had been paid for the right to occupy a site in Burrowa Street near Goddard’s and the Commercial bank.
A large number of persons who have erected costly buildings have applied to the Government to have the lots which these buildings are on reserved from public competition at the approaching sale and be permitted to purchase the same at the upset price.
A new name was soon on everyone’s lips ,as of Thursday, 18 April a new rush occurred at a place known as Tipperary Gully.
It was reported in the Yass Courier and the Miner that a large township had sprung up at Allandale about two and a half miles from Lambing Flat.
The population was about four thousand of which a third are store keepers.
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There are four public houses under construction. Nine tents out of ten are grog shanties.
Many of the other gold mining centres are deserted as miners hurried to the “New Rush”.
Mr Quail who had recently put up a large building at Stoney Creek and opened it as a hotel has moved it to Tipperary Gully.
By the following week Tipperary Gully had on either side of the road a line of tents three miles long.
In a few weeks quiet a large township was established and storekeepers, publicans, butchers and bakers were plying their trade.
The new rush to Tipperary Gully led to at least a dozen hotels opening there.
One of the earliest was Luke Reilly’s Hotel which was operating in May, but like others of the Lambing Flat business community by November had moved to the Lachlan Diggings (Forbes) where he ran the Union Hotel in Rankin Street.
Some of the hotels operating at Tipperary were:
- McFadden’s Bathurst Hotel ; Torpy’s Cosmopolitan Hotel; the Royal Exchange Hotel, Main Street, Tipperary, licensed to William Sell; The Red White and Blue Hotel, run by Mr. Brown; the Globe Hotel run by Mr. Quail and the Star Hotel run by M. Spencer.
William Booth of the Criterion Hotel in Burrowa Street was running a hotel of the same name at Tipperary Gully.
Most of the business people and hotel owners of the goldfields had moved to or opened a branch store at Tipperary Gully.
Tipperary Gully was a spectacular rush but was short lived and gradually most of the miners moved on to Forbes or back to Lambing Flat. ( to be continued)
Historian Brian James contributes his column to the Young Witness on behalf of the Young Historical Society Inc.
