WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Evening Post, Issue 63, 22 April 1865, Page 2

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

On the 27th January, the Tien Tsin sailed from Freemantle for Camden Harbor, with the Government Resident, two surveyors, a clerk, a storekeeper, and a small band of thirteen pensioners, and three police, with a well selected body of six artizans and laborers, and four surveying men, besides a few women and children. They were expected to reach their destination in twelve or thirteen days. The reports from the party at Roebuck Bay were of a most melancholy character. On the 4th February, the Nile returned to Freemantle, bringing intelligence thence, to 4th January. It appears that on the 9th of November, Mr. Harding, the company's manager, accompanied by Inspector Panter and Police-Constable Goldwyer, left Roebuck Bay with 4 horses and provisions for 8 days on an exploring excursion to the south, in the direction of the De Grey river. They had not returned on the 4th of January ; and fifty-six days' absence, with so small a number, in an unknown country, with somewhat hostile and numerous natives, leives no rational expectation for their safety, and but little hope. The company have filled Mr. Ilarding's place with Mr. Joseph Logne, a settler of great experience, and a magistrate. He will, immediately on his arrival, make every exertion to ascertain the fate of the three lost men. He is accompanied by a welltried body of five police, five pensioners, and three natives, with the addition of Mr. Maitland Brown. The police sent down are hardy, well-trained bushmen ; and the pensioners aie sturdy, well-seasoned soldiers, in the prime of life. It is Mr. Brown's intention to make his way overland from ltoebuck Bay to the De Grey, and Orkney, on the Harding, and thence down the Murchison to our settled districts in the vicinity of Champion Bay. ___^___ I____1 ____ The musical critic of the Reader, in the last number of that paper, speaks of 1864 as " the year in which we have buried the greatest of Hying composers." It appears that, a though buried, the greatest musician in question is still living. Why not dig him up at once ? There is not so many of the race that we can afford to leave one gasping in a chilly vault while nobodies try to write operas. This is a matter to be looked to, and there would be refreshing novelty in a coroner's inquest which resulted in a verdict of "Found alive and kicking." Besides, we want to know who took the unpardonable liberty of burying him alive. Where are the police ? — Morning Star.