Australian History

[goldtruck59]

sorry mate not a bell. I think I gave the clue it was a town clock as reefer said but who's clock was it?

 

[nucopia]

No Idea Dr hickory dickory's clock ?

 

[goldtruck59]

I have to go to Sydney now and don't want to make you all wait.

The answer is the new Town Hall clock for Menzies WA. It had made it to Australia from England aboard the Orizaba but was lost off Rottnest Island en route to Fremantle to unload.
This was a question that needed a bit of research and was a bit too hard . Sorry about that.

I think reefer should have a go as he was the closest.

 

[reefer]

thanks goldtruck59...phew! scraped in by the skin o' me teeth will need a bit of time to think. back in a jiffy or two.

 

[reefer]

well i don't expect this to take too long what was i. I arrived on the 16th January 1793.

 

[Jaros]

The first free settlers arrived.

 

[reefer]

close.... more information... What!...was I.

 

[Jaros]

The Bellona sailed from Gravesend on 8th August 1792 and anchored in Sydney Cove on 16th January 1793. The first free settlers arrived.

 

[reefer]

HAHA..Why am i not suprised! over to you Jaros.

 

[Jaros]

Yep,if i get a correct answer it must be easy.

 

[Jaros]

In 2010 an old mine shaft from a Gold Mine opened in the middle of a busy road in a suburban street in Melbourne revealing a huge cavity. It was closed up again with steel plates.
Can you name the suburb.??

 

[Balmain Bob]

Gday Jaros.
That would have to be Diamond Creek , wouldn't it?

Bob

 

[Jaros]

Right on Bob. Lived there for a few years when i was in my 20's and never ever new it--just around the cnr on Haley st.-Didn't have the "bug" then.
Jaros

 

[Balmain Bob]

Thanks Jaros


I will post a question shortly

 

[Balmain Bob]

I was a serial killer responsible for 5 kills in two States?

 

[Magilla]

William MacDonald, The Mutilator?

 

[Balmain Bob]

Well done Magilla

I knew that would be an easy one.

Some of the old blokes around Balmain were talking about him recently saying that they were scared to go out alone at the time and only went out in pairs. Not wanting to become his next victim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacDonald_(serial_killer)

Over to you

 

[Magilla]

Not a nice bloke that fella.

Who am I? I am one of 8 kids born to an emigrant family and might have been the first white man to go walkabout.

 

[Magilla]

I was an author and conservationist.

 

[DrDuck]

Just a wild guess was it Ion Idriess?