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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1216, 21 June 1872, Page 3

" One by ftns," says the Bendigo Advertiser, ''the remnants of the Australian aboriginal race are disappearing from • the scene, and in a few years no doubt it will become quite extinct. King Billy is the last of the Loddon tribe. Once that was

one of the strongest tribes in Victoria, now Billy is the last of its living representatives—the only oue who haa survived the downfall of his people, the inroads of civilisation, aud the march of European progress. King Billy, we are glad to say, is a sober man and a fair specimen of civilised blacWellows. He dresses himself very tidily, and conducts himself peacefully, being a regular favorite among the farmers in Eddington and Laanecoorie. King Billy is talking about instituting a toll-gate across the bridge, in order that he may obtain a revenue from the traffic, which he claims as the right which his progenitors enjoyed in the ages of antiquity, * when wild in woods the noble savage roamed. 1 "