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 –
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 […]