https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37401376/3453908# Western Mail 25 December 1909, page 91 AN ABORIGINAL DON JUAN By DAISY M. BATES Opportunity makes the thief, and circumstance not infrequently makes the hero or the villain. It was a happy circumstance that delayed Nyooneemurra’s arrival into the world until a few years after white settlement had taken place in his district. […]
Sir Samuel Cemetery –
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Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery “With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way’ Sir Samuel Townsite Cemetery Sign Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine […]
Little Boy Lost –
02/03/2024 By 11 Comments
Western Mail 10 September 1915, page 8 Lost in the Bush. A FOUR YEAR OLD WANDERER. How a small boy, aged 4 years, contrived to upset a whole town and cause practically a cassation of business for a couple of days is graphically related by a Leanora correspondent. The story also affords another instance of […]
Helena Maud Pike – grave tales
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On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid Fever. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The following photograph is a very poignant […]
The Mt Magnet Murder –
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Western Mail 1 November 1951, page 18 WESTRALIANA Murchisonite recalls a grim story The Mt Magnet Murder A murder that was committed at Mt Magnet in 1898 was never solved, despite the very closest inquiries by detectives, and police generally on the Murchison at the time. The tragedy was known as ‘The Magnet Murder’ and […]
