and a sailor, shoved off from Liardet's pier in a small boat, which, bent on a fishing excursion in the Bay, filled and went down. Cole had sank before any help could be given, and was drowned, whilst the others were rescued from their perilous position. The body was removed to Liardet's Hotel, where an inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental death returned. It was next brought to Melbourne to the residence of the young man's father, Captain G. W. Cole, of William Street, and on the 3rd January the funeral took place, when the coffin was borne by six tars attached to the Wharfinger's establishment of the Captain. The sympathy for Captain Cole, one of the original merchant townsmen, was sincere and widespread.
Allan Kenny Rennie. —On the 11th March, 1846, there died at the residence of Mr. H. N. Cassels, the Collector of Customs, Allan Kenny Rennie, accountant of the Union Bank, a young man of affability to the public, and gifted with considerable financial ability. Though his death was caused by consumption, no one thought the end so near.
Miss Coghill, Mrs. Meek, and Mrs. Hollingshead. —Towards the close of the year 1846, the deaths of three much-esteemed ladies occasioned profound regret. On the 26th October the daughter of Mr. William Coghill was cutting some bread, and, the knife slipping, she was gashed between a finger and thumb. Not much account was taken of the accident for five days, when unfavourable symptoms commenced; inflammation supervened, and on the eighth day death ensued from tetanus. Mrs. Meek, wife of Melbourne's first Solicitor, returned to England in 1846, and had an exceptionally rough passage, which she survived only until she arrived in London. A Mrs. Hollingshead, also re-going homeward, died at sea on the 11th April.
Dr. George Imlay, R.N. —Boxing (or, as it should be more properly called, St. Stephen's) Day was remarkable for the suicide of a settler well known and of extensive connexion. Dr. George Imlay, R.N., resided at a place known as Brago, in the Twofold Bay District, and early one morning he set forth, taking blankets and ratious, but declining any attendance, even so much as a dog. In a few hours his horse returned riderless, and Mr. Peter Imlay, fearful of some mishap, started at once with a few of the station hands, taking the direction in which the Doctor had gone. After a four days' hunt they found the unfortunate gentleman dead, and in a frightfully battered condition. It was surmised that he fastened the trigger of his gun to his foot, and shot himself. Temporary insanity was assigned as a reason for the tragical act.
Mr. C. L. Hussey. —The New Year (1847) was shocked by the accidental death of Mr. C. L. Hussey, the Teller of the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Hussey resided at Collingwood, and started on horseback about 6 p.m. of the 7th January for a suburban ride, and not returning at his usual time his servants became alarmed. Next morning Sergeant Rose, of the Mounted Police, noticed a horse saddled but unbridled straying near Pentridge, which, coupled with Hussey's unaccountable absence from the bank, led to the supposition that some mishap had occurred. A mounted search party hastily started from town, and Hussey was found dead in the bush, near Main's Bridge, at Flemington. It was inferred that the deceased had jumped his horse, and the animal falling threw the rider. After the usual inquest, there was a very large funeral, for the deceased was regretted as widely as he was known. It is remarkable that Hussey was one of those who providentially escaped drowning by the sinking of a boat on the occasion of the drowning of young Cole off Sandridge in January, 1846.
Mr. Fitzherbert Miller Mundy. —On the 1st March is recorded the death of Mr. Fitzherbert Miller Mundy, aged 36, of Shipley, County of Derby, and of the Red Bluff, Western Port. His brother was for many years Colonial Secretary of South Australia. They were relatives of Governor Sir Charles Fitzroy.
Mr. Willaim Jones, Clerk of Petty Sessions to the Mount Macedon Bench, was drowned whilst attempting to cross the Campaspe on the 5th July. His dog remained barking on the river bank,
