Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 054

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What is now the Market Hotel, Dirty Dick’s, was originally the Hope Coffee Shop, opened by C.F. Worth, a plasterer, and most ardent Teetotaller, who denounced drink in loud Cockney accents in company with old Tom Cooper, H. Bennetts and others. The Coffee Shop fell into line and became a Grog Shop, I think under Mr Ollivier’s Act, and Mr Worth himself became a model publican in Wellington. Such are the transformations in life. Mr Michael Brennan Hart, the founder with another of the White Hart Inn was the keeper of a Temperance Coffee Shop in London and a Teetotal spouter. Mr J.E. Fitzgerald said that in the old Provincial Council.

Along the same footpath, towards the Oxford, one Swale set fire to a house, and burnt it to the ground. A man was burnt with it. Swale was hanged. That happened about thirty years ago. The par excellence, demi-monde of the day, Nellie Duncan, was mixed up in the affair.

[note at bottom] R. Bethell [possibly name of man who died?]