Sunday Times: 6 June 1920 COLE’S FIND NEAR WILUNA – HOW A RETURNED SOLDIER DISCOVERED A GOLDFIELD – By Horace Stirling George Cole, the discoverer of Cole’s Find, 11 miles south of Wiluna, Is a scion of a family of 15, four of whom first saw the light within an interval of eleven months. […]
Mulga Queen – the early days
Mulga Queen today is a well-known Aboriginal community located 150 km northwest of Laverton in the Goldfields region of Western Australia and within the Shire of Laverton. The permanent buildings making up Mulga Queen were established in the mid-1980s. The settlement originally came about as a result of gold discoveries in the region in the […]
Cuddingwarra Kate –
Western Mail Perth – 3 March 1906, page 47 CUDDINGWARRA KATE By R. W. Patrick Tho fortnightly-mail coach was due. Jack Crenane, the driver, was generally right up to time, and a big crowd always congregated in front of Corney’s pub just before five o’clock to see it come in. The arrival of the coach […]
The Mysterious Tom Cue
The mysterious Tom Cue By Jim Foster – https: www.goldgemtreasure.com.au/shop Tom Cue is mostly known for his involvement in the finding of gold near Cue, the Western Australian town that bears his name. And, while most people assume it was Tom who made the discovery, it was actually his partners, Michael John Fitzgerald and Edward […]
The Law Provides – book review
Western Mail 1 July 1937, page 8 – “Just Roamin Around” by Non-Com Edgar Morrow (1896-1953) was born in Lancashire, England and arrived in Western Australia as a youth of twelve with his family to go farming at Dongerlocking. At the start of World War 1, he enlisted in the 28th Battalion, attaining the […]
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