that when they arrived in the ' Vulcan' troopship, the townspeople were sorry to learn that owing to sickness on board, the vessel had been placed in quarantine for a few days. As the 'Vulcan' was anchored off St. Kilda, the residents of that locality were delighted every evening by hearing the strains of the magnificent regimental band. At length the day came when the Regiment was transhipped into the ' Diamond' river-steamer for conveyance to Melbourne, and as she passed the abattoirs on her way up the river the band played that beautiful air from Maritana, ' In Happy Moments.' This favourite piece was thefirstand last music heard from the 40th band, as it was played by them when leaving the Railway Pier for N e w Zealand in i860. " As many of the men wore two medals for service in India, and were of splendid physique, there were few Regiments in the service that could have presented such an appearance. The colonists were proud of having such a distinguished Regiment in their midst, and many will never forget the numerous musical treats afforded them by the band, under the leadership of that efficient musician and first-rate performer, Mr. Henry Johnson, who is still in our midst as collector for the Melbourne Hospital. It seems almost as if the good old times and the Fortieth Band were inseparably associated.--Adieu." BURIAL GROUNDS.
The eminence north-westward of the township of Melbourne, and then away in the country, which was afterwards used as a signal station for shipping, wasfirstnamed " Burial Hill" by the European settlers. In after times it was favourably known as the Flagstaff Hill, for it was a most popular and pleasant recreation ground for the inhabitants. Here upon the green hillside was inhumed thefirstwhite corpse—the remains of Willie, the child of James Goodman, who was buried there on the 13th May, 1836—the first of the new colonists who found an early andfinalresting-place in a Melbourne Cemetery. The second funeral there was that of Mr. Charles Franks and his shepherd, murdered by some of the Goulburn blacks, on Franks' station, at Mount Cottrell, near the River Werribee. The bodies were conveyed on a dray to Melbourne, and accorded a species of public funeral. The next occupant was a seaman attached to the revenue-cutter " Rattlesnake," a cruiser between Sydney and Melbourne. One day a boat shoved off from the vessel to land somefirearmsat Williamstown, and whilst the deceased was handling a loaded gun, it exploded and accidentally shot him. The next was the wife of John Ross, a carpenter, who, in afitof delirium tremens, committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol. Her husband survived her for several years, and was a well-known resident of Heidelberg. The infant child of a Mr. Wells closes the small death-roll. In 1836 there were only three deaths recorded in Port Phillip, and but one in 1837, whilst the number ascended to twenty in 1838. In the beginning of the last-mentioned year the unsuitability of the place for a burial-ground capable of satisfying the increasing requirements of an enlarged population was so manifest that funeral operations were abandoned on the hill, and a more convenient locality sought elsewhere. It is to be regretted that the half-dozen corpses embedded in the Flagstaff Hill were not transferred to thefirstregularly constituted cemetery. Some years ago, on the transformation of the hill into a public garden, the burial-ground was not only securely railed in, but distinguished by a monolith, lettered on one side with the following brief, vague, and sad story :— ERECTED to the M E M O R Y of SOME of the EARLIEST of The PIONEERS of this COLONY Whose REMAINS were INTERRED NEAR this SPOT. This monument stands on the rise of the hill, a short distance from the Garden entry, at the intersection of Latrobe and King Streets.
