Death from Typhoid Fever was common around the turn of the 19th century. Many of the victims were fit young men who could succome to the disease and perish very quickly as this story of a young Police Constable, who had been on the Goldfields less than 6 months, will tell. The following is an […]
Joseph Salinger – Then and Now
DEATHS. SALINGER.— On the 29th January, at Nurse Egan’s Private Hospital, Joseph Salinger, late of 61 Cassidy street, Kalgoorlie, aged 41 years. Prayers will be held this (Friday) evening at the Synagogue, at 7o’clock, and each evening during the week at his late residence, opposite Commonwealth Reserve, at 7.30 p.m. Joseph was a well known […]
Watch Where You Walk !!!
For many long term residents we may all have heard of the odd old mine shaft opening up in someones backyerd after a big rain storm. There have even been a couple I have seen in the middle of the road (both in Boulder). However there are many old shafts within the city centre which […]
William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero
A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War – Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern. At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]
What is a Tributer ???
The tribute method of mining has been used through out the world. Tributers generally work in gangs, and had a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as […]
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