Coolgardie Miner

The Coolgardie Miner (18 April 1894 – c. December 1909) was a weekly newspaper established in Coolgardie, Western Australia, at a time when Coolgardie was the prominent town in the goldfields region of Western Australia.

The subsequent publication with the same title (1 March 1913 – 29 December 1917) was published in a time when Kalgoorlie was dominating the goldfields, and Coolgardie's decline as centre had set in.

History

First incarnation

The paper was founded by W. E. "Billy" Clare, with assistance from Edwin Greenslade Murphy, who, as "Dryblower" contributed a weekly gossip column.

Cartoonist Ben Strange joined the newspaper in 1894.[1]

An early editor was George Williams, previously mining reporter for the Melbourne Argus.[2]

Frederick Vosper was editor sometime before April 1895.[3]

Alfred Thomas Chandler was editor from 1896 to 1905.

Don Cameron was printer around 1895 to 1900.

C. A. MacFarlane was editor in 1905.[4]

Harry Kneebone was editor in 1907,[5] and still in the chair when publication ceased in late 1909 or early 1910.

Rebirth

On 1 March 1913 a new newspaper appeared with the same title,[6] the proprietors being named as A. McIntyre and W. L. Michell.

Issues of the Miner published in this period have been digitized as part of the Australian National Library's Trove program.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/strange-benjamin-edward-ben-8695
  2. ↑ "Classified Advertising". The West Australian (Perth: National Library of Australia). 22 September 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Pilotage Exemptions at Albany". The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth: National Library of Australia). 12 April 1895. p. 7. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Low Grade Mining". The Daily News (Perth: National Library of Australia). 16 November 1905. p. 3 Edition: First. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Coolgardie". Kalgoorlie Miner (WA: National Library of Australia). 13 May 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Coolgardie Miner Published Weekly Saturday, March 1, 1913.". Coolgardie Miner (WA: National Library of Australia). 1 March 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 18 January 2015.