Shipping record "Cleared Out" from Melbourne Stephen, 51 tons, Isaac Thurston, for Wynyard, in ballast:

Stephen, schooner, 51 tons, Isaac Thurston, from Western Port 31st ult, via Bream Creek (wreck of the Victoria Tower) 6th inst. Two passengers J.Pottinger, agent.

This is the last Will and Testament of me Isaac Henry Thurston of Vermont near Melbourne in the State of Victoria. I GIVE DEVISE and bequeath unto my wife Maria Jane Thurston and the members of our family, viz. Victoria Dobson, Mayo Patience Watson, Violet Robertina Breech Parry and Oscar Hedley Vicars Thurston to be divided between then into five equal amounts or portions the whole of my personal estate whish at this date amounts to about two hundred pounds more or less, after the following deductions have been made, viz. the sum of one pound sterling each to be deposited in a Savings Bank in the names of each of my grandchildren in the hope it may be added to as they grow up, and the payment of the necessary funeral and mortuary expenses connected with my decease. AND I HEREBY APPOINT William David Parrep of Station St, Camberwell, in the State of Victoria EXECUTOR of this my Will. IN WITNESS whereof I hereunto set my hand this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand and six.

An inquiry was held at the Morgue on Saturday by the coroner (Dr. Cole) concerning the death of Isaac Henry Thurston, formerly a master mariner, which occurred at Glenferrie on September 7, in consequence of a gunshot wound. Evidence was given that Thurston, who was 69 years of age, had suffered severely from rheumatism and spinal trouble. On Thursday morning he was found dead in his room, and by his side was a rifle which he had evidently fired by means of a string which was attached to one of his toes. A verdict of suicide was recorded.

Isaac Henry Thurston, 69 years, committed suicide in Hawthorn yesterday in the a most determined manner. Deceased resided with his son-in-law, Mr Wm Parry accountant, Wakefield Street. Mr Parry was awakened shortly after 5am by the sharp crack of a discharged rifle, the noise apparently coming from the adjoining bedroom, occupied be Mr Thurston. He hastened to the room, and then found his father-in-law lying on the bed lifeless, shot through the head. A Winchester sporting rifle lay alongside him on the bed. One end of a piece of string was attached to the trigger; the other was tied to the foot of the deceased. Evidently the old man had laid down on the bed, deliberately placed the riffle to hes head, and pulled the trigger with the aid of the string looped round his foot. Dr Boake was called at once, but pronounced life extinct. Deceased had for years been a martyr to rheumatism. The doctor recently advised him to go into a hospital for treatment and this seemed to have affected his spirits, although his conduct on the previous night led to no suspicion that he intended self-destruction. The body was removed to the Morgue.