VICTORIA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 13 February 1863, Page 2

VICTORIA.

The departure of the Bombay tiSß° noon created quite a sens'^-ionEE. Bay. The little steamer ft/anioJP^" engaged by the P. and O. '•' pmpa^B" 8 passengers and their lug ;'^e fro» n> pier to the mail steamer, which |W aTl Williamstown was completely 9Me and Mrs Landsborough were arjSd, aengsrs from Sydney, and a nuffls i friends were off to see them staff . the greater number on board *K were going off to bid farewell tilr Amongst these were observe&Hie 1 Stawell, Mr Justice Chapman, Bfa M'Crae, and Mr High'ett, M.LH n c Bancroft, and the R«s. Mr PlfflLd Mr Park, and Mr Han^field." l|fc n The following is a return of birfgL,, • registered for the district of Gellr. week ending 24th January,lffi^llll/ 11 Males, 23; females, 13; totali!""! Males, 6; females, 8; total, lip 1 births over deaths, 22. pOOO An inquest was held before Fosg|wil coroner for the district, at the OccsMbit of the body of Mary Bertram, betfaf n Mrs or Mother Oakley, who hadg|f]eii dead suddenly about 9 o'clock infsgssis that day. The evidence went l||for' deceased had latterly indulged ijsS..., excess, and that she had been ij!P •• days before her death. Shortly b'M^ she had milked a goat, and was jffir-*!: plain after that, that her heart {Bed I when she suddenly called out, $fj| CO and died. Dr AJackin having heaSEron and examined the body, declnrsplfEci opinion that the deceased had dieiMnes' brought on by hard drinking.|gj ati that effect was accordingly rtlgj&fed jury. Mn«ed The Queensland papers recordigT „; murder- and robbery, committed|Hjc. miles of G-ayndah. The victim wPPI, the suspected assassin, a young ikKßj late arrival to the colony by the||B' ron The two men, having apparently iiSgpo n stopped at a hut on the Mundubbif|f'ron evening of the 9th insfc. The hutka|imo, shelter fur the night, and they depiyjj'hoo next morning. On thnt day a tra{|p-vin< a cheque with marks of blood °nis£«sity public house on the road to Ga®g e( time after he was overtaken by a||L. orj asked if he had seen a cheque odjwll traveller replied in the affirmativeESt m .' to this claimant. Having proceed*?l6^" further on the road, this same wfjjjp 11" body of a man, lying near a pl|tf|eck< usually camp. The body bore t^l^enti and foul play, and the man was dfjjjfe) of the affair was that inquiries ifiemse dead body was identi6ed as beitjUre tl the travellers who stopped at tl«^p en tion, and the young man who£gip ror cheque discovered on the road va.>jj|| ou companion of the murdered manfc? '_ seen alive. The suspected persc^Sf 1 »