The Heat Wave When the earth was parched and the sky aflame When the old year slept beyond praise or blame In an evil moment, a heatwave came Some dropped the pen, and some dropped the pick Some were dying, and some more were sick And sunstroke cases came fast and thick Creation dropped in […]
Not A Gold Rush, But Still
Mirror Perth 15 August 1931, page 19 NOT A GOLD RUSH. BUT STILL !! A Rush On Richmond Beer Continuous Streams Of People Now Flow Daily Into The Grand Hotel, Kalgoorlie, and the Shamrock Hotel, Boulder. RICHMOND beer has captured the Goldfields, as it has done every other part of Australia. The popular beverage is […]
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – by Arthur Dunstan
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – Kalgoorlie Goldminers were a great bunch of blokes. Their work was hard and dangerous, and most of them spent their leisure time in one of the 37 pubs. They drank beer as if it were their last day on earth. Sometimes, unfortunately, it was. Besides living from day to day, the […]
The Story of the Murchison – part 2
Following on from the first part of this tale from last week: The Story of the Murchison Part 1 Extract from a paper prepared by F Bateson and read to the WA Historical Society on 25 October 1946. Early in 1895, I (Frederick W Bateson) was offered a position at the Star of the East […]
DRAMA IN PUG TOWN — Riot, Rope and a Barmaid Named 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 eighteen nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each […]
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