PORT PHILLIP.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 387, 18 April 1849, Page 3

PORT PHILLIP.

His Excellency the Governor aniv«d at Melbourne in H.M.S. Havaauutk U%t on the 12th. It was stated that his risk to Port PkUlip was private* thai be would remwn an the province tea «r twelve d»js» visiting diffttent places, and tfcat h* woild thto fioc—d.

in the HavanqaJ/L to Van Diemen's Land, on a visit to th,e Governor of that colony. Various addresses, &c.,' had been prepared in Port Phillip for presentation to his Excellency. No more gold had been, found, and it was suspected that the whole affair was a clever trick of some thief or thieves who had melted down stolen gold articles, and sold the lumps as gold ore, the better to avoid suspicion. The Gold Mine. — We have been informed by a party just returned from the Pyrenees, where he had been for some time engaged in searching for, the much talked of mine, that there is not the least indication of the precious metal either at or near the locality where it was reported to have, been found. Our informant suspects, and we think correctly, that Chapman, the shepherd boy, who first announced the discovery, had either honestly or dishonestly got hold of some articles of gold, which, to prevent detection or for some other reason, he had melted down, and in order to get rid of the property had reported that he fonnd it. This would account for his anxiety to leave the colony, which he did shortly afterwards for Britain. His absconding cannot be so well explained by any other conjecture. — Portland Gazette, March 9.