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DEATH OF AIR. RICHARD CUNNINGHAA1, THE COLONIAL 
BOTANIST AT SIDNEY. 
We extract from the Gardeners’ Magazine the following distressing 
account and confirmation of this melancholy event:— 
f ‘ The deceased, it seems, accompanied an expedition into the inte¬ 
rior of the colony, and when far distant from any European settlement 
strayed away from the party, no doubt in quest of the peculiar objects 
of his duty as a botanist, and was lost in the bush. It was conjectured 
that he might have fallen in with a party of the natives, with whom he 
might sojourn until he had an opportunity of regaining some of the 
nearest settlements, or until he was found again by the party he had 
left; but no account being heard of him for a considerable time, the 
government thought proper to send a party of police in search of the 
poor wanderer. They arrived at the place where he was last seen, and 
from thence proceeded in a north-west direction, accompanied by one 
man of the first party and a friendly native. On the third day of their 
advance they fortunately met with two blacks (natives), who knew all 
the -particulars of a white man having; been murdered on the river 
Bogan, and also the names and persons of the perpetrators of the deed ; 
and as they offered to accompany the party to the country where the 
murderers were encamped with their tribe, the officer in command most 
