Show HAD LIFE OF ADVENTURE death of mall mail carrier in earty eary day days of australia thero there has just died in a suburb ot at melbourne an old irishman of ninety who could have supplied novelists nove llata with material a score of at of 0 adventures his namo was john burke and a away ay back in the thirties when australia was only a penal set tl tic ment ement ruled in draconian Dr aconlon fashion by military officers and long before the discovery of gold revolutionized tt tta 3 great southern continent he was the man who carried the mails malls be tween melbourne and sydney there were no roads cor ir railways then it was wild bush for mort of the miles and burke bad had to rely entirely on horses to carry out bis his contract once having lost his horse be he rode milta 11 on the back of a cov coy co v a feat that only an ingenious Ingen loup alinan could accomplish his adventures with blacks floods brush fires bush rangers and runaway convicts were innumerable there Is a crudely writ ten manuscript of his setting forth some of them in the sydney public 11 II arary |