which attracted the attention of some passers-by. The horse was saved with much risk, but Jones' body was not recovered for hours. The deceased was interred in the garden of the Carlsruhe Inn.
Dr. Hobson, an early physician, died on the 4th March, 1848, at Bonavista, South Yarra, after five days' illness. As a physician he would have won much eminence had he lived twenty years longer, and even as it was, his premature death was viewed as something akin to a public loss. Measures were taken to raise funds for the erection of a monument over his grave, in the Old Cemetery, and on the 22nd March, a public meeting was held. A sum exceeding £100 was soon raised. On a pedestal of blue-stone, eight feet square, stood a free-stone obelisk, on which was lettered the following scroll:—
THIS MONUMENT,
In Memory of
EDMUND CHARLES HOBSON, M.D.,
Born at Parramatta, 10th August, 1814; Died at Melbourne, 4th March, 1848,
IIas been erected by public subscription, in honour of a distinguished fellow-colonist,
who was pre-eminent in his profession, and whose skill and attention were
never solicited by the poor or distressed in vain. He united with
rare medical and other attainments, dispositions, and virtues,
which endeared him as a man and a Christian to his numerous friends.
He died universally regretted
in the thirty-fourth year of his age.
The artist of the Hobson monument was Mr. William Candy, of George Street, Fitzroy. He may, therefore, be justly esteemed the Founder of Monumental Masonry in Victoria.
Cain and Porter.— On the 27th June, Captain James Cain, who had built for him the first large brick store in Flinders Street, died aged 45; and on 7th July Mr. George Porter, aged 48. The latter was an extensive land purchaser at the old Melbourne town lot sales. His son (Mr. J. A. Porter) was the so long well known Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, who died, as was said, "rolling in wealth," in 1882.
John Simson. —On the 21st November, 1848, as Messrs. D. C. Simson and John Simson, settlers at Charlotte Plains, were endeavouring to save the life of John Barrett, a bullock-driver, who got into deep water while crossing a ford, the two Johns were drowned, and D. C. with difficulty escaped a like fate. John Simson being a capital swimmer, the mishap in his case was believed to have been occasioned by a fit. He left a wife and six children, and his death was very much regretted. The double burial was witnessed at Charlotte Plains on the 23rd by persons who travelled many miles, and the sad ceremony was, under the circumstances, one of deep emotion.
Mr. James Ballingall was one of the first appointed batch of Corporation Rate-collectors, and in January, 1849, he was the object of deep commiseration by the drowning of his son in the Yarra.
Dr. Patrick Cussen has already figured in these sketches, and the present will be the last appearance of his name. On 22nd May, 1849, when 57 years of age, he died after a protracted illness from disease of the heart. His career was neither uneventful nor useless, for he had been an efficient public officer since 1837. He was obituarily complimented by a large funeral on the 23rd.
Mrs. L. M'Kinnon. —In June was announced the death of the wife of Mr. Lachlin M'Kinnon, Mr. and Mrs. M'Kinnon were in then a District Member of the New South Wales Legislature. Sydney where the former was attending his Parliamentary duties, and the lady died. Her remains were conveyed for burial per the "Shamrock" steamer from Sydney to Melbourne.
