Archives for January 2017

Sanitary Carter’s Tragic End

Kalgoorlie Western Argus Tuesday 11 March 1902. A carter named Charles Noell, an employee of Mr O Sloss, met with a terrible death, yesterday morning through being jolted off his cart on the road to the Boulder sanitary depot. When last seen alive by two fellow carters, about 4 o’clock, the deceased had almost finished […]

Pannican – grave tales

Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker. On the 2nd Jul 2008 a memorial was unveiled  in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers.  Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 to […]

The Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson

I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]

The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory!!!!

BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS. Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903.  –  A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states: A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]

The Killer Cyclone of ’28’

RAVAGED GOLDFIELDS TOWNS Cyclone Claims Child Victim. PREMIER CAUGHT IN STATION WRECK Total Damage Estimated at £150,000 Albany Advertiser 14th Feb 1928 – Sent hurtling through the air by the fury of the cyclone that devastated the goldfields towns on Friday, a sheet of iron struck down six year old Violet Guy, of 198 Piesse […]