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 […]
Hasty’s Grave – mans best friend
17/09/2022 By Leave a Comment
Hasty’s Grave This grateful country cherishes the fine courageous band Who pioneered the wilderness, and founded our great land And so it is appropriate that the name of one so brave Be printed on our outback maps, marked simply ‘Hasty’s Grave’ And for those who wished to go there, and find the grave, perhaps Longitude […]
A Challenging Land – by Ray Jackson
27/08/2022 By Leave a Comment
Here we have another ‘Bush Verse’ from the pen of Ray Jackson. You will have enjoyed his last poem, Camooweal Billabong, earlier this year. The following verse was entered in the Aust Bush Poets Assoc awards in Toodyay earlier this year and won 2nd in the Serious Division (novice). A Challenging LandThe raucous cry of […]
The Old Cemetery at Meekatharra-
13/08/2022 By Leave a Comment
Wiluna Chronicle and East Murchison Advocate – 30 May 1925, page 5 The Old Cemetery Mekatharra. A few old graves; we almost weep For the forgotten here who lie In their oblivion: which doth keep Their earth-born memories and we sigh. The common lot of millions, dead As the wide wild drought-stricken bush, The weird […]
The Old Time Track by Darkie Wallace ‘The Axeman’
16/07/2022 By Leave a Comment
Alfred Edward Wallace (Darky) The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette. 13 October 1910. Some very rich floaters from the Eclipse lease at Garden Gully, owned by ‘Darky’ Wallace and party were on view at the Meekatharra Miner office last week. The stone is of a very rich nature and the owners are now sinking […]
