[Editor: This article, regarding the misreported the death of the Rev. George Otter, was published in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land), 28 January 1854.]
The Rev. Mr. Otter.
— It will be remembered that the Rev. Mr. Otter, formerly of Van Dieman’s Land, and more recently a resident of Geelong, left the latter place and went to Mount Alexander to dig — left there, disappeared, and was supposed to have come to an untimely end.
He is, however, alive and well, and when last seen he was busy brewing his own beer on the township of Ballarat.
Source:
The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land), 28 January 1854, p. 3
Also published (with some differences) in:
Launceston Examiner (Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land), 26 January 1854, p. 2 (see the section entitled “The Rev. Mr. Otter”)
Editor’s notes:
Reports on the alleged death of the Rev. George Otter were published in:
1) Hobart Town Advertiser (Hobart Town, Tas.), 1 March 1853, p. 2 (column 6) [as part of a longer article]
2) The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (West Maitland, NSW), 30 March 1853, p. 4 (column 3) [short version, being an extract from the Hobart article of 1 March 1853
Rev. = an abbreviation of “Reverend” (a title given to a minister of a church, a priest, a member of the clergy)
Van Diemen’s Land = the island, now known as Tasmania, originally named Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, by Abel Tasman (1603-1659), in honour of Anthony van Diemen (1593-1645), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1636-1645)
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