Awful massacre of crew aboard the Superior at Treasury Island
A letter to the editor recounts the 1860 Treasury Island killings of the American whaling ship Superior. Captain Woods reports that six crew were murdered and the ship burned after natives attacked while the crew was ashore and loading water. A rebel leader named Billy implicated. three men held by natives proved unrecoverable. The Ariel and Captain Devlin relay ongoing efforts to recover the crew, while the Rebecca details further attacks and fatalities.
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Treasury Island
Solomon
Sydney Morning Herald
Hugh Mair
Ariel
Devlin
Redcaes
Rubiana
Solomon Islands
Slater
Naves
Canis
America
Copan
B.D. Woods
Vods
New Belford
Port
Astore
Setilement
Lind
Goode Wrush
Billy
Sydney
Len
Superior
Honolulu
Midas
United States
Tom
Hoon Mark
Rebecca
Develing War
Botany Bay
Rebecta
New Georgia
Insolvency Briefs From Ballaarat and Swan Hill Trades
Fragmentary insolvency notices: David Fhomas Ballaarat blacksmith faces debts of £108 14 with assets £47 6s and deficiency £91 12s 3d under Official Assignee Shaw. Thomas Dick Swan Hill innkeeper notes debts £6958 0d with assets £4267 16s 10d and other sums. Frederick Jacaerd Hotham painter and Joseph Hoonlate shoemaker tied to prison-related insolvency matters. notices cite official assignees and various causes including sickness, market dips, and imprisonment under writs.
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Thomas George Kane
Blackwood
Kit
Koween Rolling
Melbourne
Courtney
William Dalrymple
Richmond
Mr. Laing
Samuel Bissell
Kyneton
R. H. Binney
Chas
Alex. Hatfield
Fruiterer
Goodman
John Ganley
Thomas Waite
East Loddon Station
Serpentine Creek
William Hurst
Jacomb
Joseph Coulthard
Boroondara
John Gordon M‘kay
Ooffictall Allaignee
Mr. Courtney
Jesse Thorn
American Gully
Sandhurst
H.M
Agaignee
Robert Mark Thalyburton
Shaw
Daniel Lefevre
Heidelberg
James Macmillan
Forest Creek
Business, &Co
Asseta
Patrick Davin
John Wreford
Courteney
Benjamin Slater
Estcourt
Wangaratta
Craps, &v. Debta
Mr. Goodman
Henry Harvard
Schnapper Point
Vietualler
George Hall
Henry Marke
Henry Griffet
Kyneton, Baker
Laing
Thomas Cox
Ballasrat
G Wylde
Chiltern
Robert English
Her Majesty's
Ballaarat
David Fhomas
Thomas Dick
Swan Hill
Lgornay
Ea Kilmens Carpenter
Frederick Jacaerd
Hotham
Painter
Joseph Hoonlate
I Avi
Capias
Debra
Mr Jacomb
Missing dairyman child found asleep under gum tree
Mrs Thomas of Golden Point searched frantically for her three year old son after he vanished in a thunderstorm. Thirty to forty neighbors scoured the bush until morning when the child was found sleeping under a gum tree, safe and sound, ending the mother's distress.
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Thomas
Golden Point
Mount Alexander Matt
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Shipping
England
G. and
J. Espie
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Essrs
Ase Sars
London
Lin of
Packeta
Kent
Lindmehire
Yokahire
Norfolk
Suffolk
Sasex
London Direct
Sas
C.ipper
Athamptor
Lloyd's
B. Tonain
Fookin
Hobeon’s Bay
Thors
Vesnels
Grathampon
Atewarda
Omort
ESS
Iroluia
Wp, Wilite and CO
Eliznbeth Street
Blackwall Line
Packe
Lonlyn
Thuraday
Owen Glendower
Henry Thomas Dickenson
Messrs. Gragn
Blackwall
Thea Owen Gendower
Blackwall Reef
Jon
Dickenson
Éliases
Will
Gandridge
Aco
Eiizabeth Street
Hugh Peck
Collins Street Wear
Criterion
Imperial Loan and Discount Banking Company
Collins Street
Browning
Elizabeth One
Ils
Imperial Loan and Discount Hanking
Company
Bank of New South
Lous
Collins Street West
Moxey
Eis
Tulmenia
Yin
Thompson
Little Uollies Street
Swanston
Wiliam Clarke and Sons
Deposit Bank
Elisabeth Street
Stevenson and
Elliott
King Street
Iba
William Street
Royal's
Leicester
Atreet
Finur Milla
Letchford
Leoford
Old Montague Atreet
Whitechapel
Albert
Arissa Atresi
Bourke Weat
Bengrei's
M. Binet
J. Farrell
Little Bourke Street
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