Woman Bullocky and Walhalla Gold Rush Chronicle
In Walhalla Victoria in 1862 a half-pound gold nugget sparked Donnelly's Creek rush. Irish digger and three mates led to Cohen's reef and a bustling boom town with bullock teams, including a famed woman driver Ma Bun time. The Long Tunnel yielded up to 10 ounces per crush and shares surged. guards escorted shipments as the town boomed then burned and flooded, with a later narrow gauge railway linking the mines.
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Walhalla
Gippsland
Donnelly’s Creek
Rock Wate
Walhallo
Ned Stringer
Cohen
Valhalla
Port Albert
Port Albert On the Coast. the Bullocky, Too, Was A Woman, One “Ma” Buntine
Wal‘halla
Melbourne
Victoria
Valhalla Gold Diggers Settle in Peaceful Cemetery Scene
Geoff Taylor recalls Valhalla and its gold rush era. Insurance firms later refused cash settlements, halting a wave of suspicious fires. Despite gold still in the diggings the high extraction costs and labor shortages trapped any rush. The valley stays quiet, the hillside cemetery marking pioneer memory.
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Ned Stringer
Champion Title Awarded by Burlington Liars Club
John Hopley of San Antonio Texas won the World's Champion Liar title in a Texas draw. He entertained fans with a Boggy Creek billiards tale featuring Charley Skorpia and a dramatic fly incident. The story ends with Charley chalking his cue and breaking the fly’s back with a strong shot.
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Burlington
Wisconsin
Liars
John Hopley
San Antonio
Texas
Hopley
Charley Skorpia
Boggy Creek
Pet
Charley
Acting Gov Gordon Justifies Early Release in Murder Case
In Little Rock Arkansas Acting Gov Gordon reduced Amos Wilwa's son's sentence for second degree murder from nine years to a shorter term. He defended the decision saying the inmate has become a law abiding citizen while in custody.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Gordon
Amos Wilwa
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