MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2591, 7 June 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

It is creditable to the remote little settlement of Fiji that the sum of L2OO has been collected there on behalf of the European war relief fund. . . In publishing the report of Sub-inspector Gilmour, in which that officer expressed his belief that the remains he discovered at Wantata were those of L-icliardt and his party, the Brisbane Courier writes in opposition to this belief, we have the opinion of Mr A. C. Gregory, the well; known Australian explorer, that the reipaips found by Mr Gilmour were those of Mr Gray, a member of the Burke and Wills expedition. It seema evident that the blacks led Mr Gilmour to the same place where they led Mr Mackinlay, and where the latter disinterred the body of Gray. It is understood that the Government will institute a more complete search than Mr Gilmour was able to accomplish, in order to put at rest the question as to what explorer it was whose bones were found on Cooper’s Ore k. Mr Gregory declares that he came upon a camp, which must have been that of Leichardt s party, in Arnheim’s Land, some 800 miles to the north and east of Cooper’s Creek, and therefore Mr Gilmour must have been mistaken in supposing that he had discovered the icmains of Leichardt.”