William Tait

Walter E. Pidgeon, Illustration from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print.
Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994.

Tait was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

...One William Tait, a storekeeper, sold grog on the sly, and for eighteen months had paid £5 a week to the police; Sergeant-Major Milne had charge of the foot police at that time, and received the £10 from this storekeeper.

See also

James Bentley

Eureka Hotel

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

External links

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