QUEENSLAND.
Mr Dufare writes to a relative on the prevailing incredulity about Skulthorpe's discovery of the relics, that " Hum " told him that the old white man related that a meeting (?) occurred on Leichardt going to camp. While Classan was absent seeing about water Leichardt was struck down by one of his own men, and ultimately died from the effect of the blow in Classan's care. The mutineers started south west with most of the horae equipment. Hum further stated that the papers and instruments had been deposited with peculiar care in a hollow boulder of granite, with no visible entrance until the sand at the base was scratched away. Efforts were made this morning to get the Caller ou' off by tugs and hawsers, but failed. It is now proposed to use chains attached to powerful winches in puntsanchored a short distance off the shore. Lafouet, the New Caledonian escapee, has been liberated in default of identification.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2689, 29 January 1881, Page 2
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