This is a favourite of mine, especially the first two lines, to me, they are evocative of the spirit of the Goldfields: Oh! Who could paint a Goldfields and paint the picture right? As old adventurers saw it in early morning light. The yellow mounds of mullock with spots of red and white The scattered […]
New Chum – Johnnie Raw
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler 23 December 1898, page 20 The New Chum Johnnie Raw as told by a miner He was an English new-chum, a reg’lar Johnnie Raw, His fresh complexion told it, and the English coat he wore. I was the first he spoke to. He saw me on the […]
Jim’s Whip by Barcroft Boake
Jim’s Whip by Barcroft BoakeJim’s Whip Yes! There it hangs upon the wall And never gives a sound: The hand that trimmed its greenhide fall Is hidden underground — There, in that patch of sallee shade, Beneath that grassy mound. I never take it from the wall: That whip belonged to him — The man I singled […]
Where Belinda Bought the Drinks –
Where Belinda Bought the Drinks by Andree Hayward – 1896 In the outback pub, it was always known when ‘womenfolk’ would be arriving in town. The news could never be kept secret. When the weekly coach arrived, all eyes would be on the lookout to catch a glimpse of the ‘new girl’. There was no […]
The Death Outback of ‘Old Jack’ –
John Saul Turner known, as’ Old Jack’, died on the 15th of February 1896 aged between 54 and 57 years, 2 miles southeast of Cement Creek at Mount Margaret. He was found on the 16th of February 1896 and later buried by WP McCormack and Police Constable Lionel Bradley from Menzies. He was a prospector […]
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