sentences:  It had its own municipality, the Municipality of Day Dawn, from 1894 to 1912.The Northern Railway arrived at Cue from Mullewa, a distance of , in 1894.In 1895 the "Day Dawn Associated Gold mine", "Kinsella", "Trenton" and the "Day Dawn South mine" were all operating ten head stamp mills close to the town for processing ore.
  
  An important strike was staged there for nine weeks in 1899 when local miners protested against the use of Italian immigrant contract workers and Great Fingall's attempt to reduce miners' wages by five shillings per week.