JOSEPH HENRY CHALKER was one of the very earliest men to come on to Manaro. He was at Billylingera with John Cosgrove about 1833. Shortly afterwards he went to Adaminaby as storekeeper for Messrs. Charles and Henry York, step-brothers of Mr. Cosgrove and partners with him in the Adamindumee Run. This employment he retained till the breaking out of the Kiandra Rush in 1860, and on the 11th September of that year was granted a publican's general license for The Travellers' Rest Hotel at Adaminaby, where he did a roaring trade selling grog at 1/- a nobbler. The old house, which was of wood and had a root thatched with grass, was burnt to the ground. Chalker then built opposite the old site the premises later known as The Rose Inn. He died at Adaminaby on 21st June, 1893, at the age of 80 years.