[Press bulletin, reporting the deaths of Burke and Wills]

The Victorian Exploration Expedition.

The Continent Crossed.

Death of Burke and Wills.

Their remains found.

The Argus Office, Sunday Morning.

The following dispatch has been received from our Sandhurst correspondent:-

“Sandhurst, Nov. 2.

Mr. Brahe, of the Exploration Contingent, arrived here this afternoon, from Cooper’s Creek.

The remains of Burke and Wills, who both died on the same day from starvation, [supposed on or about the 28th of June,] near Cooper’s Creek, have been found.

Gray, another of the party, also perished.

King is the only survivor.

They had crossed the continent to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
All Burke's books, &c., have been saved.” 

Transcribed from The Argus press bulletin, 3 November 1861
Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 13071