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herd's hut being erected on the site now occupied by St. James's Cathedral. Soon 

 aftenvards Mr. James Sutherland arrived from Van Diemen's Land in the Francis Frceling, 

 with eight hundred sheep, and formed a station in the neighbourhood of Geelong. 



By the middle of June the settlement on the banks of the Yarra had assumed 

 sufficient cohesion and importance to justify its residents in taking some steps for 



organizing a form of govern- 

 ment, or for establishing a 

 tribunal empowered to settle 

 any disputes which might 

 arise among themselves. 

 Accordingly a public meeting 

 was held, attended by thirty- 

 one persons, including 

 Fawkner, Batman and 

 Wedge ; and two resolutions 

 were passed one appointing 

 Mr. James Simpson to arbi- 

 trate between disputants on 

 all questions excepting those 



LORD MELBOURNE. 



thought proper; and the 

 other directing that a petition 

 should be prepared, praying 

 Governor Bourke to appoint 

 a resident magistrate at Port 

 Phillip. This request was 

 complied with, and when Mr. 



George Stewart, who had been -designated to fill that office temporarily, arrived from 

 Sydney, he found that one hundred and seventy-seven persons from Van Diemen's 

 Land had settled in the district, and were possessed of live stock and other property 

 to the value of one hundred and ten thousand pounds. During the remainder of the 

 year 1836 the settlement continued to receive numerous accessions to its population, 

 and large numbers of sheep and cattle. During this year the first funeral in the 

 settlement that of a child named Goodman took place on Flagstaff Hill. 



CAPTAIN LONSDALE. 



On the 29th of September the Rattlesnake, Captain Hobson, arrived in the Bay, 

 bringing Captain Lonsdale, who was afterwards to act as resident magistrate. The 

 harbour was thoroughly surveyed by the commander of the Rattlesnake, and it received 

 his name in consequence ; one of his lieutenants gallantly bestowing upon Mounts 

 Martha and Eliza the epithets they bear, in honour of Mrs. Lonsdale and Mrs. Batman 

 respectively. A survey was soon afterwards made by Mr. Russell and his assistants of 

 the site of' the present city of Melbourne, a spot which was sometimes spoken of as 



