of the family. Whenn the child was brought, the dying minister was unable to speak louder than a whisper, and after the ceremony was with difficulty gone through with much effort, he wrote down the event in a family Register kept in his pulpit Bible. When this was done, he languidly lay back in the bed and calmly said, "I have performed the last act of my ministry."
The Rev. Daniel Newham.— This gentleman was a curate with Dr. Perry in England, and when the latter was appointed Bishop of the Anglican See of Melbourne, Mr. Newham accompanied him to the scene of his episcopal labours. On their arrival in Melbourne, A.D. 1848, Mr. Nweham was nominated to the parochial charge of St. Peter's. He died at his Parsonage on the 27th August, 1851, then only 35 years of age, and on the 29th his funeral was attended by a large concourse, including the Lieutenant-Governor, and most of the leading residents of Melbourne. Two affecting panegyrics were preached on deceased that day, viz., by Bishop Perry, at St. Peter's, in the morning, and at St. James's, by the Rev. Mr. Strong, in the evening.
Mr. Gilbert Robertson.— An editorial casualty, the only instance of the kind, occurred near Geelong on the morning of the 5th September, when Mr. Gilbert Robertson, the editor of the Victoria Colonist, a Geelong newspaper, was proceeding on horseback to attend an electoral meeting at Colac, and on reaching about a mile beyond the South Geelong Bridge, the animal he rode shied, and threw him off. After lying helpless on the ground for some time, he was found by a wayfarer. He was speechless, and evidently much internally shaken, and on removal to a tavern some distance off he neither rallied nor spoke, and died the following day.
Mr. Stanley Docker.— Ten days after, Mr. Stanley Docker, son of the Rev. Joseph Docker, of Bontherambo, was with a stockman crossing the Ovens in a state of high flood, when the horses came in collision, the two men were dismounted, and Docker was drowned. He was only twenty years of age, transacted all his father's business, and had already established a high reputation for being straightforward and honourable in all his dealings.
Mr. John Bear, Senior.— This Necrological catalogue ends with the death of the brusque, active, wideawake, widely-liked individual known as Mr. John Bear, senior. For several years the stock and station-selling firm of Bear and Son was as well-known as Bourke Street, where at the south-east corner of Queen Street their vending-mart was established. "Old Bear," though only two years more than the half century, took his last illness in 1851, and after being laid up for four months, died on the 30th November. At half-past four of 2nd December he was buried from St. Peter's Church, and escorted to the grave by a large town and country gathering.
