The Sydney Gazette. Thursday 4 March 1

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A man that procured his livelihood by bird catching, named (we believe) Edward Maidman, for the last fortnight or three weeks gave himself up to intense drinking. One day last week he was in a Pitt-street public-house, apparently well in health, when suddenly he leaped towards the ceiling, fell prostrate, and instantly expired ! A Coroner’s Inquest returned a verdict of-Death by the visitation of God.’ Reader ! if thou art a drunkard, refrain in time; for eternity will be too late !

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The Sydney Gazette  Wednesday 26 July 1826

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Six persons, amongst whom was a female of notorious character as a drunkard, were severally fined 5s. each to the poor, for being found in a state of intoxication in the streets at late hours.

When you want to put the clock out and

you try to wind the cat;

When the pavement comes to meet you and

the lamp post lifts its hat;

When you can’t jusht findsher key hole

landing home at 1 half past three

You may take the wife’s word for it that

you’re drunk as you can be.

When a purple snake salutes you and he

wears a spotted tie:

When you’ve just one big ambition- it’s to

drink an ocean dry; 

When you can’t say conshishusion when

you think the lump’s a keg

And you try to drink the goldfish you’re

as full as any egg.

When your brains commence to rattle and

your knees begin to knock

When you argue with a ‘copper’ that the

moonsh a town hall clock:

When a purple railway signal starts to

dance a Highland fling

And you cannot find your ticket you’re as

drunk as anything.

When you lob home with a lobster that’s

been dead for half a week

And your sense of smell is sort of hors de

combat sho to shpeak;

When you tell the wife you’re (hic) as

shober ash can be

It’s a pound to half a cherry that you’re

jagging on the spree.

When your tongue is wagging freely and

your senses are awry

When your legs are unresponsive and your

feet are stepping high,

When your head is gaping open and your   

commonsense is kinked           

In the language of the classics you are

well, and truly inked

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The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 18 March 1826, page 3.

Hannah Moss, free, whose squalid and repulsive appearance might have set her above the imputation of being of that loose description of character, which she afterwards was proved to be, was sentenced as a notorious prostitute to the muse of correction, (the Factory; for 3 months. And a man (a settler from the countrv) who had given her into charge for having robbed bim of two dollars whilst he was in a state of intoxication, was fined 5s. to the poor for being drunk.

POLICE REPORT

SYDNEY      

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The Sydney Gazette and… Friday 16 February 1827, page 3.

FEBRUARY 10 – John Noblet, was placed at the bar for frequently absenting himself from his master’s service and returning drunk and abusive ; yesterday he said he would go into barracks, and accordingly walked off, but returned in the evening quite pot-valiant and abusive ; 10 days on the tread-mill.

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The Sydney Gazette and… Monday 25 February 1828, page 2.

John Ward, free, was charged with being found drunk and disorderly in the public street. The constable, in this case, seemed to have some doubts as to whether the prisoner was drunk within the .meaning of the law, inasmuch as it was particularly deposed that he could walk. The prisoner, however, admitted that he had got a little grog, and the Bench being of opinion that he had got a little too-much, sentenced him to pay the usual fine, or in default, to be elevated for four hours in the market place.

Samuel Astley, free, found lying drunk in the street, and almost naked, was sentenced to meditate for four hours in the stocks.

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The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 28 May 1831, page 3.

Mary Folle,a weekly debutante at the Police Office, whom his Worship recommended to try an hour’s residence in a bag at tho bottom of the sea, was charged by her dearly beloved spouse with being drunk, teazing the life out of him, and threatening to dunfounder him, for which affectionate behaviour she was ordered three hours in the stocks.

Robert Mitchell, assigned to Mr. Robinson, was brought up by constable Shady, who found him ” by the side of a murmuring stream,” to wit, the gutter, reposing in the oblivious effects of Cooper’s colonial. Being asked what he had to say for himself, ” why, I was only drunk,” growled Robert Mitchell, so the Bench ordered him to be only worked on the mill.

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The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 1 September 1832, page 3. News

Denis O’Rafferty, a rare boy from the finest gem of the sea, was charged with threatening to alitterate half a score of constables, because they advised him to go to his home, instead of breaking the peace of the King’s lieges, in which he was busily occupied by singing at the top of his voice;

” Down the lane o’er the way,

There’s a little whiskey shop,

Where you know very well.

You may get a little drop.”

The ” lane,” and the ” whisky-shop,” however, had no existence but in his fertile brain, for he was reposing at the time on the middle of the race-course. Denis now tried to look as tame as an Irishman could do, and walked off very contentedly to the stocks, to undergo a couple of hours ablution in the rain, of which, by the way, his clothes stood in some need.

DRUNK IN HOSPITAL
FINED

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The Canberra Times Monday 16 February 1948, page 3.

Claude Powell, labourer, of Capital Hill mess, who was admitted to the Canberra Hospital on Thursday with an amputated toe following an accident while chopping wood, was fined £2, in default four days Imprisonment by Mr. F. C. P. Keane, S.M., at the Canberra Court on Saturday. Powell pleaded guilty to being drunk in a public ward of the hospital. It was stated that Powell was creating a nuisance and was upsetting other patients.

Boy Found Drunk

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The Canberra Times Wednesday 16 January 1952, page 2.

SYDNEY, Tues. – A 14-years old boy had been found drunk on the roadside after, a shop-keeper had sold a bottle of wine to a 15-years-old youth, the Parramatta Court was told to-day. The shopkeeper, Leslie Morris Kenney, of Woodville Road, Old Guildford, was fined £100 for selling a bottle of wine on November 9 last.

Star (London, England), Friday, January 2, 1789; Issue 210.

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The Canberra Times Saturday 9 April 1949, page 1.

DRUNK RODE HORSE

ORANGE, Friday. Charged  with riding a horse while under the influence of liquor, George Edward Hawtin, 19, drover, was fined £5 in the court to-day. Police said Hawtin had, hls arms around the horse’s neck to keep from falling off.

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Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson