Not only did the New South Wales governor , Baron Carrington, and Admiral Tryon , both good tooth men , have their sausages sizzled on an Allington stove , but so did others in the best clubs and hotels in Sydney , elsewhere in the colonies, according to this advertisement in the 1886 Australian Builders Price Book . Compiled by architect and civil engineer , Charles Mayes, published by George Robertson , Melbourne , Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, our copy obtained on that culinary paradise, Magnetic Island ,where the French restaurant is Le Paradis .
Allington stoves had won " the only Cooking Contest " held in Australia at the Wealth and Industrial Exhibition , Prince Alfred Park, Sydney.
Allington stoves had won " the only Cooking Contest " held in Australia at the Wealth and Industrial Exhibition , Prince Alfred Park, Sydney.
The proprietor of the firm , James Ward , had arrived in Australia , probably from one of the towns named Allington , about 1872 , and became known as a whitesmith, stove and range manufacturer . In 1890 he was granted a Sydney City Council contract to supply cooking appliances for the Centennial Hall , now the Sydney Town Hall . He served as an alderman on the council for a number of years and died in 1915.
Governor Carrington probably suffered indigestion from time to time when he was in the colony as he was not impressed by some of the politicians , labourers and read the Riot Act on one occasion . He also strongly convinced Sir Henry Parkes , the so called Father of Federation, that he should not change the name of New South Wales to Australia .
Apart from having to eat a lot of salt beef and weevily ship's biscuits in his long and action packed naval career, Admiral Tryon , from a military family, nevertheless attended many banquets in high places as he rose up the ranks and became concerned about the food and water supplied to sailors.
Early in his naval career he sailed to America in 1849 and visited , Boston , New York and Washington where he met leading politicians and sat in on a debate over California's request to join the Union as a free state rather than a slave state . Over the years he developed social and political skills and sat in on the Crimean War peace talks in Marseilles .
On being posted to Sydney in charge of the Australian Station in 1884 with the task of convincing the colonies to finance a fast squadron in the region , he threw some large parties , as did Governor Carrington . The Admiral had to contend with concerns about the French , the threat of a Russian invasion and the troublesome blackbirders who enslaved Pacific islanders to work in the Queensland canefields. On top of that , the New Zealanders wanted their own gunboats, instead of relying on an Australian based fleet .
On returning to England , he took up politics for a time , then went back to sea and drowned during manoeuvres when his flagship HMS Victoria collided with HMS Camperdown off Tripoli , reportedly declaring, as he went down with his ship : "It was my fault ." Strange things happen at sea- it is claimed that at the time of his drowning , his ghost was seen ashore .
