My father was station manager, he had a reputation of a good manager, and known as a wizard with sheep management. She was now mistress of a household staff, of a cook, housemaid, book keeper, and Jackeroo. The later being a young man training to be a station manager. The shearers and boundary riders were housed in hits, scattered around the property, and were seldom seen at the homestead. This was an unu7sual event, and many people thought that the end of the world had come.
Some people knelt praying the streets.
The Aurora Australis is a peculiar illumination in the night sky, and common within polar circles, consisting on streams of light and colours of the rainbow. This is caused by the sun shining on ice and reflected in the sky. The Aurora Australis is not often seen in Australia. In 1900 the year I was born West Wyalong still had shafts and holes everywhere, made by people who had come to dig for gold in the gold rush days. It was an extensive holding situated on the Barwon River.