The early miners’ staple diet consisted of ‘Damper and Tinned Dog’, washed down by the inevitable mug of black tea – a meal sufficiently filling to satisfy the cravings of appetites blunted by protracted periods of roughing it in the bush. Apparently, tinned meat, or tinned dog as it was mainly called, must have agreed […]
For A Better Life: book launch
06/11/2021 By Leave a Comment
For A Better Life – Yugoslavs on the Goldfields of Western Australia by Dr Criena Fitzgerald We have just received a new shipment of the following book in Kalgoorlie. The first consignment sold out in 24hrs. Important Message: Dr. Fitzgerald can now take phone payments by calling – 0417 980 553 or you can make […]
New Chum Johnnie Raw-
06/11/2021 By Leave a Comment
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler 23 December 1898, page 20 The New Chum Johnnie Raw or Bill McGee’s Mate As told by a miner He was an English new-churn, a reg’lar Johnnie Raw, His fresh complexion told it, and the English coat he wore. I was the first he spoke to. He […]
Maninga Marley – ghost town
06/11/2021 By Leave a Comment
The outback mining centre of Maninga Marley is situated some 620 miles northeast of Perth on the Dandaraga Station near Sandstone. The Maninga Marley Gold Mine, from which the place takes its name, was found by prospectors Ernest Alfred Arundel and Matthew Dwyer. The claim was registered by Arundel. Gold was discovered in the area […]
A Legend Cut Down –
06/11/2021 By Leave a Comment
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Monday 19 March 1934, page 5 Tragedy at ORA BANDA Ora Banda has once more been the stage for a sad and dreadful fatality. Mr. Charles Emery, who left the Ora Banda hotel with his cart and horse about 9 p.m. on Sunday the 11th March was discovered […]
