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 nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each […]
Niagara’s Rise – by Nick Roberts
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by Nick Roberts 20 Jan 1919 – Time Gents Australian Pub Project Mrs Clara Paton Recalls – The Western Mail (Perth) on October 30 1952: NIAGARA’S RISE “IN February, 1895, Dorrie Doolette and Charley Northmore arrived at the 90-mile and asked my husband, Arthur Williams, the licensee of the 90-Mile Hotel, if they could put […]
When the Law Came to Niagara:
04/05/2019 By 1 Comment
Smith’s Weekly 26 November 1927 by John Drayton How “Rough Justice” Was Served Out On Goldfields Niagara was one of the little camps worth a column in the W.A. Post Office Directory of 1899 that followed Bob Menzie’s strike in September, 1894. Its life was short, but while it was alive, it ‘LIVED’. Menzies find […]
A Case of Mistaken Identity –
04/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
While recently doing my daily post on the WAVMM ‘The Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial’ I found that it was the anniversary of a disaster that caused the death of three men at the Englishman GM in Kookynie on the 3rd February 1900. The names of the victims were:- BOURKE John, Miner 3/02/1900 Age 35 […]
