The following article is reproduced with the kind permission of the author, Rod Milne and the Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. The article first appeared in the publication ‘Light Railways’ in June 2014. A rare photograph of a loaded wood train posed at Kurramia. Motive power is almost certainly ex-WAGR G 127 (James […]
When the Ground Refused the Dead: Yerilla’s First Cemetery Tragedy
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 […]
A Friend’s Deadly Supper: Murder Attempt at Boulder
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 […]
The Hermit of Kintore Hill – Joe Vesta
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 […]
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 […]
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