‘Billy’ takes flour, tea, sugar and seven sheep from Price Maurice’s Appila station, mid-December 1847

Date: 1 Dec 1847
Place: Appila (Hayward spells is ‘Appelea’)
Price Maurice’s overseer, FJ Hayward, reported to his employer in mid-December 1847 that the ‘Blacks were very troublesome’ at one of the stations, Appila. They took seven sheep, flour, tea, sugar and more. They were led by a man known as ‘Billy’ who had recently been tried for the murder of Native Constable Charley in November 1847.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • ‘Billy’ takes flour, tea, sugar and seven sheep from Price Maurice’s Appila station, mid-December 1847
    1 Dec 1847 — Appila (Hayward spells is ‘Appelea’)
    Price Maurice’s overseer, FJ Hayward, reported to his employer in mid-December 1847 that the ‘Blacks were very troublesome’ at one of the stations, Appila. They took seven sheep, flour, tea, sugar and more. They were led by a man known as ‘Billy’ who had recently been tried for the murder of Native Constable Charley in November 1847.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier