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Newspaper

Melbourne Leader

Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Date

Jan 12, 1861

Page

10

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Golden Point Mount Alexander Matt

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