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When the Ground Refused the Dead: Yerilla’s First Cemetery Tragedy

28/03/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Yerilla Cemetery The First Burial Distressing Complications From the Goldfields Morning Chronicle 26th March 1897 – On Monday morning, 22 March 1897, Mr Simon Elliott, age 63 yrs, manager of the Yerilla Claims, died suddenly at GM Lease 64R. He was at work but died as a result of a rupture of the heart and […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yerilla

A Friend’s Deadly Supper: Murder Attempt at Boulder

28/03/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40 years, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Frank Rassmussen, who was the proprietor of a gold treatment works in Boulder. While being searched […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Goldfields History, murder, Western Australia

The Hermit of Kintore Hill – Joe Vesta

28/03/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Daily News Perth 21 October 1933, page 12 AN OUTBACK HERMIT LIVES IN A CAVE PROSPECTOR AND PHILOSOPHER A cave, on a hill overlooking a lonely road on the goldfields, has been converted into a hermitage by an old prospector, Joe Vesta, who has lived there alone for many years, seeing only the mailman once […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kintore, Western Australia

The Heat Wave by Andree Hayward

28/03/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner

Not A Gold Rush, But Still

21/03/2026 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Beer, Goldfields History, Hotels, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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