Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Saturday 28 January 1911, page 4 Funeral.— The remains of the late Mr. George Gillespie, late mill shift boss on the Chaffers gold mine, were interred in the Presbyterian portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery on Thursday afternoon, the burial service being conducted by the Rev. J. A. Agnew. […]
Russian Jack – the other J F K
Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift: a journal of bush history Russian Jack and Synchronicity – by Diane Oldman I rather thought I had made up the word ‘synchronicity’ and when I attempted to look it up in several dictionaries I couldn’t find it. So I decided it was a new noun – my noun. Then […]
The Saddler and his Wife –
Truth (Perth) 4 July 1908, page 5 THE SADDLER AND HIS WIFE The Harness Parted and the Wife Bolted, John Brown Cadzow, a saddler carrying on business at the lively little town of Leonora, is a man who has a decided objection to wives going out at night unless accompanied by their husbands, and because […]
A Lynching for Kitty:
Eastern Recorder – Kellerberrin WA – 3 March 1933 LYNCH LAW IN Western Australia A True Story of Early Goldfields Days – by D Dinan. With, my dear old friend, “Matilda” (my swag), I struck Niagara (W.A.) early in the nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each […]
Dust and Dreams – a verse by Crissouli (c)
DUST AND DREAMS The old man sat, in silence upon the dusty floor not heeding sounds around him he dreamt of days of yore – For he’d once been a stockman on a station, rather grand, working mobs of cattle, then became a leading hand. They say he was the fastest that the folks had […]
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