NEWS ITEMS
1923 - JOHN O'DRISCOLL - DEATH IN SYDNEY.
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
John O'Drlscoll, of Liverpool-street Paddington, died last night, aged 82.
His father was one of the Gulgong gold pioneers of the fifties. After remaining in the Gulgong district for a quarter of century, and doing much gold mining along the Macquarie, John O'Driscoll went to the Copeland goldfields, where he erected a battery and carried out many successful crushings. He removed to Newcastle, where he held a lease of the baths for several years. He came to live in Sydney 20 years ago.
