Mount Bolton is a mountain in southwest Victoria. Mount Bolton is at an altitude of about 641m above sea level. At the 2016 census, Mount Bolton and the surrounding area had a population of 29.
Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 8 December 1863, page 6
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COUNTRY NEWS.
BALLARAT.
(FROM THE STAR, DEC. 7.)
ARREST OF A SUPPOSED MURDERER.— On Saturday night Mounted-trooper Dowling stationed at the Springs, Mount Bolton, ar-rested a man who is supposed to be one of the two men who murdered William Selby and John Bartlett, at Carr's Plains, on the 16th October. The man arrested is supposed to be Charles Plant, alias Martin, alias James Payne, a ticket of-leave holder, who was transported to Van Diemen's Land some twenty years ago. He is described in the Police Gazette as having the third knuckle on the left hand cut off. The person arrested corresponds to the description in every par-ticular, and has the third knuckle cut off the hand, as described. He is a stranger at the Springs, where he was apprehended.