George Gipps

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  • George Gipps
    2 Oct 1839
    “The distance to Goulburn cannot be less than three hundred miles, but of course, as Sir George Gipps said in Council the other day, as the blacks were an hungered it is nothing but natural (which means I suppose right as well,) that they should eat, come by it how they may.”
    Source: THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355
  • George Gipps
    2 Oct 1839
    “[Sir George Gipps, we are sorry to say, talks too fast on many occasions.—”
    Source: THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355
  • George Gipps
    6 Nov 1841
    “The Right Honorable Lord John Russell, in a late Despatch to His Excellency Sir George Gipps, on the treatment of Aborigines of New Holland, states, (when speaking of the difficulty in making reserves of land for the natives,) that "there are two sources of mischief which mar the most benevolent designs of this nature; the one arising from the inaptitude of the natives to change their desultory habits, and learn those of settled industry; the other from the constant inroads of Europeans, to rob, corrupt, and destroy them."”
    Source: COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102
  • George Gipps
    23 Apr 1844
    “Friends of Sir George Gipps.”
    Source: ORIGINAL POETRY. (1844, April 23). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12409847