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Newspaper
Melbourne Leader
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1861
Page
3
A terse, confused note reports 24 killed and wounded amid ongoing turmoil. The writer laments the rambling statement and the surrounding noise, asking for pardon and indicating deep puzzlement about how to proceed. The text conveys personal distress and unsettled circumstances without specific events or dates.
The Collingwood council meets amid tension over the Moody audit, with remarks from Dr Don and others about Moody’s handling of municipal funds. Allegations of improper access to the strong-box and questions about the auditors’ report spark heated debate. A later drainage meeting proves fruitless, urging concrete plans while detailing harsh sanitary conditions in East Collingwood.
A detachment of the 12th Regiment arrived under Captain Seymour and will grow from twenty five rank and file to eighty, lodging in the old Immigration Depot. Reports claim a rich copper lode near Gladstone could yield sixty to seventy percent. Nine miners join Colonel O Connell’s mine at Boyne as shearing closes near Gladstone amid thunderstorms. An accident kills Mr TI Coxon, nephew of MLA Charles Coxon, on Daandine run. Gulliver, the outlaw linked to Fanny Briggs’ murder, is shot by native troopers after capture attempts. Captain Mechosk’s party hunts for auriferous sites in Wide Bay, Tenningering not yet yielding.
A Melbourne resident receives a 1860 letter from Virginia City Utah Territory describing California mining, new silver finds paying up to ten thousand dollars per ton, high claim values, lawless conditions with Colt as a lone lawmaker, cold winters, and a thriving Oregon farming outlook. the writer predicts growth as capital funds mining and settlement expands.
An old simple hydraulic blast contrivance for furnaces and forges is revived at Collingwood saw mills by Mr Huxon Victoria Parade. A zinc pipe feeds a cask creating a powerful blast to the forge, controlled by a stopcock, with waste water carried away. The device requires no labor and supports multiple furnaces.
On Friday morning Patrick Callag, a local resident, was found in an old twelve foot hole near Back Creek after wandering from a nearby tent during rain at night. He appeared to be intoxicated and had disappeared from the footpath. by morning he had not returned home. Bendigo, Iowa witnesses describe a tense scene as local onlookers discuss the strange incident and its cause.
The bill for making the Council electoral has been read a second time in the Assembly without a division, as reported by the electric telegraph dated January 25.
Fragmented 1861 Adelaide market note shows Marketa steady and prices for flour and wheat. The text includes garbled phrases and names such as Tavs Sonorion and Macpherson, with references to ancient patriarchs and physic, lacking coherent context.
A deputation of the Ancient Independent Order of Odd Fellows waited at half past twelve to present a farewell address to Sir W Denison, now Governor of Madras, on his departure. Messrs Brewer, M Gaw, Gills, Langley, Wright, Rintel, and A Cohen delivered the address. Denison replied, praising the order and wishing them prosperity. He then shook hands with all present before the deputation withdrew.
An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Carriers' Return Melbourne road into the deaths of John Egbert Rowe and James Doble, with evidence noting a mine cutting collapse during end prop work at United Quarts mining near Big Hill. Eyewitnesses described earthfall burying the workers, while Robert Richards died later from injuries. The jury returned an accidental death verdict. Doble left a widow and two children.
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