The Lost Child of Buninyong
Buninyong Cemetary- Presbetarian Section Plot No 25. Photo Andrew Parker Ballarat Star (Vic.: 1865 - 1924), Friday 25 October 1867, page 2 An inquest was held on Thursday, 24th October, at the Crown hotel, Buninyong, on the remains of Jessie McIntosh which had been found on the previous day about two o'clock, by John Hodges, who was engaged in cutting props on the spur of a range lying between King Gully and Water Gully, a distance of about five miles from Buninyong, and three miles from the Green Hills Bridge, where the child was last seen alive. The remains lay in an open space, though surrounded by growing and fallen timber. The vicinity had been traversed by the search-parties more than once. No later than Sunday last, a party of Ballarat horsemen passed the side of the range on which the object of their search lay; but the apparent inaccessibility of the place, and the unsuitability of a cavalcade in a bush search rendered the effort fruitless. Immediately o...
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