Jan. 27th. After bath and breakfast, I bade good-bye to the Peg family and the Brethren and took the train for Goulburn, 134 miles - ticket 1-8-6 (1 pound - 8 shillings - 6 pence) - Brother Cluff accompanying. At 32 miles we pass Kembleton, where the Gospel was preached in 1854 and a small branch started in 1857. We pass small settlements and farms. At 85 miles we are on a mountain top 3,000 feet high. We reached Goulburn at 5:00 P.M. For the last ten mies the country opens out with hills in different directions. Goulburn is less inviting that I had expected. Like Sydney, it has poor water, four of five thousand population. On the train I had a conversation with a passenger about the country, and then, as usual, on the Gospel.
We found our first address, Thos. Mayberry, at Newton, a half mile from the main town. He lives in a house of his own - a Bush house. He is Welsh with an English wife and a family of three boys and three girls. The parents accepted the Gospel twenty years ago at Cambelton. In drifting about, the children have not been baptized. They have not seen Latter-day Saints for sixteen or eighteen years. Brother Mayberry went with us to Brother Chittenden's, and his wife's father, at Tyranna, a small settlement four miles distant. They, like the Mayberry's, have not met with Latter-day Saints for eighteen years. They have, at home, two daughters and one son and a grand daughter, also an orphan they hire. We stayed the night.
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