How Mac Held The Bonnie Dundee The Golden West Magazine 1921 For The Golden West by JOHN DRAYTON “My apologies for the Scottish dialect, but it wouldn’t be the same if translated to plain English, hope you can make it out” In the early days of the Victorian goldfields, when , the present writer, was […]
The Story of a Daring Coward –
Sunday Times Perth 31 January 1909, page 1 Have you heard of Jim Connolly? He was a great bushman and a line prospector and could fire two revolvers at once. The left hand was as deadly as the right, and either was certain death if Jim had any interest in mitigating your existence. He was […]
The Christmas Find by John Drayton
Sunday Times 24 December 1916, page 18 It was not ‘Happy Christmas Hogan’s’ fault that he was born on the natal day of the Prince of Christianity. He certainly had had no voice in the matter which, it was apparent to him later, if not to his godfathers and godmothers in his baptism, was altogether […]
Jim The Hatter’s Christmas Party
Old Jim the “Hatter” lay in bed half asleep. At least he reckoned himself half asleep, although he knew well enough that it was Christmas morning and time to get up. But he had dreamt such a wonderful dream and the illusion, the charm of it, so persisted that he hated to open his eyes. […]
Murder in a Mining Camp
Sunday Times 29 August 1943, page 7 Murder In a Gold Mining Camp Murderers I Have Known, by Harry Mann, ex-Chief of the C.I.B., Perth, as told to Max Praed Boom days on the Murchison goldfields! What a picture that calls up, to us who remember the richness and the wickedness! of those roaring times! […]
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