'These articles appeared as a series in Once a Month between July 1884 and June 1886. Once a Month was "conducted" by Peter Mercer D.D. and printed by William Inglis and Co. at 37 and 38 Flinders Street East, Melbourne. The articles are in twenty parts, nineteen entitled Adventures of a Pioneer and one First Capture of Gardiner the Bushranger.' (Editor's Note).