Spearing of stock
On 8 October, the increasingly bold attitude of Wiradyjuri warriors spurred overseer Andrew Dunn to send Alsop and Booth into Bathurst township to report the September incidents to Commandant Lawson. Dunn sent a warning to Lawson that ‘the Judge Advocate and Mr George Palmer will suffer materially by the natives driving the Cattle about so much from a great loss of Calves and most serious injury done on the stock’. He also reported he had found several sets of bones ‘in travelling several Miles round in the Bush’ that he considered were from ‘Cattle killed at some former period’.
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Sources
- ‘Re cattle killed by natives’, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, pp. 343–44
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Spearing of stock1 Jun 1823 – 31 Jul 1823 — Kings Plains surroundsOn 8 October, the increasingly bold attitude of Wiradyjuri warriors spurred overseer Andrew Dunn to send Alsop and Booth into Bathurst township to report the September incidents to Commandant Lawson. Dunn sent a warning to Lawson that ‘the Judge Advocate and Mr George Palmer will suffer materially by the natives driving the Cattle about so much from a great loss of Calves and most serious injury done on the stock’. He also reported he had found several sets of bones ‘in travelling several Miles round in the Bush’ that he considered were from ‘Cattle killed at some former period’.Source: ‘Re cattle killed by natives’, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, pp. 343–44