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• Attack on stockworkers
  10 Jul 1824 – 20 Jul 1824 — Unclear, possible Lawson's station
  The Gazette noted seven deaths, but Fisher and a later report 5 dead. At Lawson’s ‘upper station’ on ‘Campbell’s River’, ‘Mr. Lawson … lost four men, who were cut off by the savages; and, very lately, three others have also fallen victims to aboriginal barbarity’. Fisher wrote to his employer on 20 July that he had ‘just returned from the [Bathurst] Plains’ and was sorry to say that while he was there ‘Mr Lawson’s overseer and young Mr Lawson came to inform the Commandant that another of their men are found killed by the natives at their Upper Station by Campbell’s River’. He also noted that Lawson and his overseer could not say what ‘further mischief’ had been done ‘as none of their Men or Cattle and flocks were to be found’. The Gazette noted the ‘Gentleman who had been proverbially kind to them [Lawson]’ had ‘two hundred and fifty fine sheep’ killed.
  Source: Gazette, 5 August 1824, p. 2; Australasian Pocket Almanack … 1822–1826, p. 134; Fisher to Hassall, 20 July 1824, ML, Hassall Correspondence, vol. 3, pp. 1563–64; William John Dumaresq, ‘A ride to Bathurst, 1827’, in Mackaness (ed.), Fourteen Journeys, p. 192