Threlkeld’s mission is officially closed

December 31. Threlkeld’s mission is officially closed. Threlkeld continues to sit on committees for the welfare of the Aboriginals and to attend the police courts on behalf of Aboriginal defendants. (ADB) Threlkeld later explains that the mission is closed “solely from the sad fact that the aborigines themselves had then become almost extinct…(Threlkeld 1857 in Ford 337)