This following verse shows the strong feelings held by the local miners about the influx of Italian and Slav workers to the Goldfields. The Italian Miner: The Murchison Advocate 3 May 1902 (Respectfully dedicated to Bewick Moreing and Company) There’s a firm that lives in London that runs this blessed field, From Yalgoo through to […]
A payable claim by ‘Dryblower’ Murphy
Although the Sydney Bulletin claimed businessmen at Coolgardie were on more payable claims than the diggers, they were not the only ones, according to E.G. ‘Dryblower’ Murphy, who wrote: A few of the lucky have dropped in on a patch And gone on a rollicking spree, Where a woman is waiting the digger to catch […]
The Boulder Block Turns Back the Clock – a verse
If you want to turn back the clock Then pay a visit to the Boulder Block The last pub left of the famous four That graced the place in days of yore. The ‘Dirty Acre’ they called the square Formed by pubs that traded there The miners came from Miles away By tram, by bike, […]
Why Can’t the Kids be Always Young?
Why Can’t the Kids Be Always Young? by (Edwin Greenslade Murphy) Dryblower Murphy 1926 Published first in the Sunday Times 28 Apr 1918 pg 6 with some differences Why can’t the kids be always young? Why must they grow from babyhood To hear life’s sordid stanzas sung; By souls too clearly understood? Why must we […]
The Cattle-Dog’s Death – Henry Lawson
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route, And the march was heavy on man and brute; For the Spirit of Drought was on all the land, And the white heat danced on the glowing sand. The best of our cattle-dogs lagged at last, His strength gave out ere the plains were passed, And our […]
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