From Finder of Relics February 16, 2021 JOHN MCMANAWAY OF CUE, BLACK RANGE AND SANDSTONE Author – Vivienne Sinclair. John McManaway was born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1863. He moved to Victoria, Australia and by the age of 21 years had married Mary Glover. They had 6 children and by 1895 the family had moved […]
The Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson
Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble. DEAR “Non-Com,” Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney – and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work […]
Murder in a Mining Camp
Sunday Times 29 August 1943, page 7 Murder In a Gold Mining Camp Murderers I Have Known, by Harry Mann, ex-Chief of the C.I.B., Perth, as told to Max Praed Boom days on the Murchison goldfields! What a picture that calls up, to us who remember the richness and the wickedness! of those roaring times! […]
William H Gale – first mayor of Cue
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler (WA : 1896 – 1905), Friday 26 March 1897, page 42 Cue was declared a municipality in August 1894, the first election of councillors taking place at the Warden’s office on the 16th of August of that year, when Mr. W. H. Gale was elected Mayor, after […]
The Mysterious Tom Cue
The mysterious Tom Cue By Jim Foster – https: www.goldgemtreasure.com.au/shop Tom Cue is mostly known for his involvement in the finding of gold near Cue, the Western Australian town that bears his name. And, while most people assume it was Tom who made the discovery, it was actually his partners, Michael John Fitzgerald and Edward […]
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