The history of pastoral stations and mining in the Yalgoo district, east of Geraldton. Available from Hesperian Press. YALGOO – Latitude 28° 20′ S Longitude 116° 41′ E The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north north east of Perth and 118 km east north east of Mullewa. Gold […]
When the Law Came to Niagara:
Smith’s Weekly, 26 November 1927, by John Drayton How “Justice” was Served Out on the Goldfields. Niagara was one of the little towns worth a column in the W.A. Post Office Directory of 1899 following Bob Menzie’s strike in September 1894. The town’s life was short, but while it was alive, it ‘LIVED’. Menzie’s find […]
His Epitaph and The Rhyme of the West
He lies here. See the bush All grey through grief for him Hoar scrub-like ashes cast Sprinkles the valley grim The saltbush is his shroud Wide skies his only pall And’in-memoriam’ A thousand stamp-heads fall Gold-lured to death- and yet he would have had it so Say mass, sing requiem With the grey bush and […]
I J K Cohn – pioneer profile
Isidore James Knight COHEN JP, (he later changed the name to COHN), was born in Melbourne in 1843, the son of Victor Cohen (Born 1813 on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, England) and Annie Henrietta MAGNUS. From his early boyhood, he had been associated with gold mining. If there was ever a calling conducive […]
Jacky and Polly and Jimmy: a tragic tale
In the Christmas week of 1894, a prospector James Anderson, known as ‘New Zealand Jimmy’, finally had some success after a run of bad luck at Kurnalpi and Peake’s Find, by finding a nugget at Pig Flat at Coolgardie. It weighed in at 28 ozs for which he received £102 from the Union Bank. James […]
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