THE CAVE AT DUNDAS.

Kumara Times, Issue 928, 20 September 1879, Page 3

THE CAVE AT DUNDAS.

A. remarkable cave has been diaat Mount Melville, in the Dnntias Range (Victoria), says the Hamilton Spectator, which bore evident signs bf having been the haunt of some refcl.UHe at a period of 20 or 25 years a»o. There were scofes of rusty powder canisters and empty matchboxes, a few dilapidated kangaroo skins, which may have formed a hed or carpet, an old battered tin pla'e, and besides enough bones of sheep and native animals td fcopstitnte a very respectable “kitchen inidlte.n.” The cave is formed by a remarkable overhanging rock, and although considerably bpen to the weather mijtt have bebn easily closed in with a little ingenhityi The supposition is that this was the secret abode of the notorious Captain Melville, who at one time dwelt in these fastnesses, and from whom Mount Melville received its name,. It was generally believed that -Melville had secreted ti considerable amount of plunder somewhere in the Dundas Hange, the proceeds of some of his bushranging Expeditions; but,so far nothing of the sort has rewarded the search of those who have explored the cave. Captain Melville, it will be remembered, was tiiidergoing a sentence of 32 years’ hard labor when he .headed the first outbreak of i-cvicts at Wiiliamstowu; Which lesnlfed in the death of a bqattnan named Owen Owens, for killing whom with a-.,jammer Melville was was sentenced to death in November 1856. Melville was respited, but be fore the intelligence could be communicated to him he strangled himself in the cell;

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