The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence. Mr. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an auriferous patch […]
Life in the Australian Backblocks by E S Sorenson
Life in the Australian Backblocks by Edward S Sorenson THE STOCKMAN “‘Twas merry ‘mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips, and a fiery run of hoofs— Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard.” by Adam Lindsay […]
The Day the Pigs Got Drunk at Mt Malcolm
In 1899, the Horan Brothers were the bakers and butchers at Mt Malcolm. Mt Malcolm also had a brewery at this time. One afternoon, the WA Bank Manager, Lowry, and his assistant, Hamilton, invited me to join them. “We are going out to Horans to see the pigs get drunk. Today is the day they […]
When the Ground Refused the Dead: Yerilla’s First Cemetery Tragedy
Yerilla Cemetery The First Burial Distressing Complications From the Goldfields Morning Chronicle 26th March 1897 – On Monday morning, 22 March 1897, Mr Simon Elliott, age 63 yrs, manager of the Yerilla Claims, died suddenly at GM Lease 64R. He was at work but died as a result of a rupture of the heart and […]
A Friend’s Deadly Supper: Murder Attempt at Boulder
Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40 years, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Frank Rassmussen, who was the proprietor of a gold treatment works in Boulder. While being searched […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- …
- 144
- Next Page »