With thanks to Gary Cowans: Truth 16 February 1930, page 6 THE FIGHT FOR IDA H Who discovered the Ida H gold mine, twenty miles from Mount Margaret, in the State of Western Australia? Who got the half-million sterling extracted from it? Whence was its name derived? Ask those questions of old Dick (Richard) Heaphy, […]
Bound Together in Life and Death: The Philippe Family Grave at Kalgoorlie
Four adult members of the Philippe family are buried in this one grave in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. They are Richard Henry Philippe bur 12 Oct 1906, age 67 Eliza Mary, nee Howells bur 21 Nov 191,1 aged 73 (Richard’s wife) Bertrand Charles Philippe bur 19 Jun 1950, age 71 (son of Richard and Eliza) Violet […]
Darlot – Centenary Celebrations 1994
Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130 km north of Leonora, returned to celebrate the town’s centenary in December 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the town’s centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
‘Molar Mauler’ – Bert Heathcote
The career of a later well know dentist surgeon, Albert ‘Bert’ Edward Heathcote, had a somewhat shaky start as the following article will show: Kalgoorlie Western Argus 7 May 1907, page 27 Unregistered Dentist Fined for Practising. At the Boulder court, Tuesday before the R.M. Mr. E.P. Dowley, Albert Edward Heathcote (age 28yrs), was charged […]
The Sun Newspaper – not a detective agency
The Sun Newspaper was circulated in the Goldfields from 1898 to 1929 when the name was changed to The Goldfields Observer, which continued until 1939. Printed and published by Frank Walker for Kalgoorlie Newspapers, Ltd at their office, 51 Forrest street, Kalgoorlie next to the Railway Hotel. The Sunday Times and “The Sun” newspapers of Western […]
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