Crimes of passion are not something new, and they happened in the early Goldfields days just as they do today, but the town of Kanowna seems to have had more than its fair share in its short history. The following three stories. Sadly there are no photographs of any of the people in these dramas. […]
A Ghan who did a’woowing go :
17/07/2018 By Leave a Comment
The Sun, Kalgoorlie : 24 March 1907, page 9 MARRIAGE OF A RUE DE BROOKMAN RESIDENT. The foundations of goldfields society were not exactly shaken to their bedrock bottom on Wednesday morning, last , when the “Kalgoorlie Miner” issued with the announcement of the marriage of a well known Afghan , to a more notoriously […]