I have often mentioned, the regular occurrence, of what you may call ‘synchronicity’ where two related things come together for no apparent reason. It seems to happen with amazing regularity and I have lost count on how many time I have received an enquiry on a particular person or place only to have another person […]
Archives for February 2017
Scandal at Murtagh’s Private School
18/02/2017 By 1 Comment
The following story is about a teacher who went from town to town setting up schools for a short time then leaving under a cloud of suspicion. First in Perth in 1892 then to Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie then on to Perth again then Bunbury with the same results. However Mr Murtagh was in no way […]
THE PRIEST AND THE POLICEMAN
18/02/2017 By 2 Comments
THE PRIEST AND THE POLICEMAN by Peter Conole (WA Police Historian) (Retired 2013) with permission from the Police Historical Soc @ http://www.policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/Museum.html The above photograph is a fairly well known West Australian image, one which deserves a greater degree of fame. This fine relic of the Gold Rush days has been in the possession of the […]
The Glass on the Bar – by Henry Lawson
18/02/2017 By 3 Comments
The Glass on the Bar Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; They’d only returned from a trip to the North, And, eager to greet them, the landlord came forth. He absently poured out a glass of Three Star. And set down […]
HANNAN’S FIND – a verse by Crissouli
14/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
Today we have a guest post by Chris Goopy, my thanks to her. HANNAN’S FIND ’twas but a simple Irish man Paddy Hannan was his name he’d left his home in far off Quin to find his fortune and his fame. First he went to Melbourne then to New Zealand he did go but then […]
