ST. BATHANS.—Sept. 17.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 134, 22 September 1871, Page 5

ST. BATHANS.—Sept. 17.

The weather continues fine, water plentiful, and miners all at work. The owners of claims at the Lagoon, Surface Hill, and other places are engaged in the very interesting operation of "washing up," and it is cheering to learn that they are likely to be well rewarded for their labor, although that varies from twelve months to two years without getting gold, and for their outlay, although it, taken with the labor expended on each, varies from £IOOO to £ISOO.

Death has been in our midst, I am sorry to say, and, considering our very small population, Thursday last will be remembered as a very remarkable day in the annals of St. Bathans. On that day, and within a very few hours, there took place a marriage, a birth, a burial, a death, and two christenings. The marriage was that of a young woman who has lived for some time at Hawkdun Station, to a gentleman of pastoral pursuits on a neighboring station. The happy couple took the coach to Dunediu on Friday morning. The burial was that of Mr. P. Hanrahan's infant son. Mrs. Gerkins gave birth to a daughter in the morning, and died at four o'clock in the afternoon. I have heard no medical aid could have saved the poor woman Though dying at the early age of twenty-seven years, Mrs. Grerkins leaves five helpless chilj dren and a sorrowing husband to deplore her loss. Her remains were borne to the grave at four o'clock yesterday, followed by the entire population, who deeply sympathised with Mr. Gerkins and his young family in their loss of a good wife and mother. This sad aifair, along with the illness and lamented death of Mr. Hanrahan's child, detained Father Royer from going to Blacks during the week, as the rev. gentleman intended to have done. —A.8.0.