' Land and Water* has received from a correspondent in Gippsland, Australia, a communication of which the. following is an extract. Our contemporary does-not attach much importance to it, but, if correct, it Bays it would certainly solve many difficulties in that extraordinary , case,-ex-plaining, as it would,'the desultory and incomplete knowledge of various minute circumstances : in Sir Roger's life and habits, of, which the Claimant evidently hadrsome. cognisance;:—'• It is commonly asserted and believed here that the person known as u Ballarat Harry" was the late Sir Roger Tiehhorne. - He (B IX.) went out prospecting with a mate; the mate returned alone," having- several tings and other articles which were knowhi to have belonged to Harry; llis account waa that tliey had parted companyHarrv having previously lost the rings. &c , at cards. Poor Harry never turned up, and is believed to have been murdered. It is perfectly certain, whatever your Courts irtay have that a ship called the Osprjjy did come into Melbourne about the time stated by the Claimant, and the fact that there is no record ot her is readily explained by the confused state of things at that time. I know a man that was a boatman at the t;me, andwas often , on beard of her; he is now" a Btationmas~ ter on the railway."
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 2
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217Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 2
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