Gunshot wounds reported being 'dressed' in Wellington
In October – basing its report on ‘information’ received from the district – the Gazette suggested that while the ‘exterminating war’ was going on around Bathurst and ‘its surrounding vicinity’, it was a very different story at Wellington. Here, according to the Gazette, ‘peace reigns around the smiling and ever verdant valley’. The Gazette report continued, ‘The information further states that the poor objects [Wiradyjuri] often visit Wellington Valley with gun shot wounds, in order to obtain relief by getting them dressed!’
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- Gazette, 14 October 1824, p. 2; ‘The Aborigines’, Gazette, 29 September 1825, p. 3.
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Gunshot wounds reported being 'dressed' in Wellington1 Oct 1824 – 31 Oct 1824 — the surrounding vicinity' of BathurstIn October – basing its report on ‘information’ received from the district – the Gazette suggested that while the ‘exterminating war’ was going on around Bathurst and ‘its surrounding vicinity’, it was a very different story at Wellington. Here, according to the Gazette, ‘peace reigns around the smiling and ever verdant valley’. The Gazette report continued, ‘The information further states that the poor objects [Wiradyjuri] often visit Wellington Valley with gun shot wounds, in order to obtain relief by getting them dressed!’Source: Gazette, 14 October 1824, p. 2; ‘The Aborigines’, Gazette, 29 September 1825, p. 3.