People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns

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Across
  1. 4. – Paddy lost everything, but his town rallied round in 1909
  2. 6. – Where the stallion that that ran in the third Melbourne cup will stand for your mares - cost four guineas 1909
  3. 7. – Lilly wins the nail-driving competition here in 1914
  4. 10. – Nine days entombed in a flooded mine here in 1907
  5. 11. – Waterous packed up and moved here
  6. 15. – Poetic distraction by pilgrimage
  7. 18. – I will pay you soon!
  8. 19. – My music was so sweet that stones moved
  9. 20. – The pen name of the very entertaining journalist Charles M Harris
  10. 21. – “Queen of the Murchison”
  11. 23. – This stretch of water was devoid of people
  12. 25. – Like many others, soldiers remembered on the Australian War memorial in London.
  13. 27. – Full fathoms five I lie; and tell a terrible tale
  14. 29. – 15 children baptised beside a stream in 1935
  15. 31. – Just a little band of gold
  16. 33. – A little settlement near Broomhill with a lot of history
Down
  1. 1. – But eight miles from where?
  2. 2. – Depots for these hardy creatures were set up for transport at Coolgardie, Kanowna, and Menzies
  3. 3. – little Maudie spent a night in the bush near here
  4. 5. – How the residents described the eager new-comers looking for gold
  5. 8. – It takes two to make a wish
  6. 9. – I call it Acacia tetragonophylla
  7. 11. – A sacred find was a hoax, and the priest was to blame!
  8. 12. - Latitude 34 02 S Longitude 115 E
  9. 13. – Originally named after the stock carrying craft that brought the first European settlers in 1863
  10. 14. – A famous bear and painful trotters
  11. 16. – An extinct volcano is this familiar shape in the Peel region
  12. 17. – 36 miles along the rabbit proof fence
  13. 19. - Not all that glitters is gold
  14. 22. – This small cemetery includes the unmarked grave of baby Ivy Harris
  15. 24. – A certain American (later famous) remarks about this town: Govt was more rigid and violence was absent but petty crime, immorality and good cheer were as generally abundant
  16. 26. – The finder went from one end of the alphabet to the other
  17. 28. – Mrs Wilhelmina Sloss was the first woman on the field in 1893
  18. 30. – He’s wild
  19. 32. – Last home to the fascinating Madame Eugenie Vauthier