He died at the Bendigo District Hospital on 3 January 1881.
I guess you have sourced those details from the many online trees which claim he was born c1833 Scotland.
A copy of the parish record for his marriage shows his parents to be John
MAYER and Ann
McCULLOCH.
I did read a number of years ago that there were missing bdm's that didn't reach the Victorian Registry so perhaps your John's is one of those.
Cando