Following on from the first part of this tale from last week: The Story of the Murchison Part 1 Extract from a paper prepared by F Bateson and read to the WA Historical Society on 25 October 1946. Early in 1895, I (Frederick W Bateson) was offered a position at the Star of the East […]
DRAMA IN PUG TOWN — Riot, Rope and a Barmaid Named Kitty
Eastern Recorder – Kellerberrin, WA – 3 March 1933 LYNCH LAW IN Western Australia A True Story of Early Goldfields Days – by D Dinan. With my dear old friend, “Matilda” (my swag), I struck Niagara (W.A.) early in the eighteen nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each […]
One Bullet—Two Victims – The Fugitive Hector Shot During Arrest
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – Cue 27 March 1913 – In the early months of 1913, the quiet goldfields town of Meekatharra was shaken by a dramatic and troubling incident that quickly became known locally as the “Meekatharra Shooting Sensation.” It was about nine o’clock in the evening when the disturbance occurred in […]
The Passing of Jones –
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler – 23 December 1898, page 6 THE PASSING OF JONES by Bungarra Jones was a friend of mine!! In all fairness, I must state, however, that the connection was not of my own seeking. Like poverty, subpoenas, and subscription lists, it was thrust upon me. The first […]
The Story of the Murchison – part 1
As told by the nephew of the Late John Craib Peterkin in Perth, in March 1946. About the years 1889-1890, Gilles MacPherson and J C Peterkin met in Perth. Both were old Kimberley and Queensland prospectors; they had known each other for a long time but had never actually worked together. Both were known as […]
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