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Dunstan Times, Issue 619, 27 February 1874, Page 3

A' Geelong undertaker recently visited Hobart Town for the purpose of bringing to Victoria the body of a gentleman who had been interred in Tasmania. He met with two unexpected difficulties to the exhumation, The body having been interm! in consecrated ground, it was found that it could not be removed without the “ benefit of clergy : ” and a special “ faculty” had to be obtained for the purpose, for which a fee of seven guineas was charged and paid. A fresh obstacle then presented itself. The body had been buried in a wooden coffin, and it was necessary that it.rhould be enclosed in lead in order to ensure shipment on board the steamer, Strange to say the city ot Hobart Town did not contain a -sufficient quantity of metal to make a coffin, and the plumbers- advised tie 'findertaker to wait until they could succeed in' obtaining a supply from Melbourne; but, aa this delay could not be complied with, they gathered all the small pieces that were to be found in the island, and soldered them together in the shape of a coffia.

William Shulrer, who , was. sentenced August, 1873, to imprisonment for life f6 a murderous assault ou two females, in* j borits property Tidutd at J