Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – Cue 27 March 1913 – In the early months of 1913, the quiet goldfields town of Meekatharra was shaken by a dramatic and troubling incident that quickly became known locally as the “Meekatharra Shooting Sensation.” It was about nine o’clock in the evening when the disturbance occurred in […]
The Passing of Jones –
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler – 23 December 1898, page 6 THE PASSING OF JONES by Bungarra Jones was a friend of mine!! In all fairness, I must state, however, that the connection was not of my own seeking. Like poverty, subpoenas, and subscription lists, it was thrust upon me. The first […]
The Story of the Murchison – part 1
As told by the nephew of the Late John Craib Peterkin in Perth, in March 1946. About the years 1889-1890, Gilles MacPherson and J C Peterkin met in Perth. Both were old Kimberley and Queensland prospectors; they had known each other for a long time but had never actually worked together. Both were known as […]
Blood on the Mulga Plains: The Last Day of John Sutherland
John Sutherland, better known as the ‘Duke of Sutherland’, died on the 26th of February 1895 in his own camp at Nannine, in the Meekatharra district. His age was not known. He was a miner who was shot dead by an old friend, Henry Augustus Muller, who then killed himself. Both men were old identities […]
The Contract at Old Warden Shaft
Sunday Times: 22 December 1907 Old “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet had just been let, and the two mates had […]
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