September 8th. Captain Clark's shepherd attacked, but escaped.
13th. One man killed, and one man wounded, by the natives, on the
banks of the Tamar. 14th. A man, employed by government at the lime
kilns, near Bothwell, chased by natives, but escaped. 18th. A
private, of the 63rd regiment, killed by natives: two sawyers
speared, one of whom died of his wounds. 27th. Francis Broken
speared and killed. 28th. Three men, at Major Grey's, wounded by
natives, and one dangerously wounded with stones. 30th. Mr. G.
Scott's house attacked by a mob of natives; they speared one man,
and killed another--the body of whom they threw into the river.
They ransacked the house of every thing they could find, and even
went up stairs, and broke the doors open--a proceeding to which
they had never before resorted. They took away blankets, shirts,
sheets, knives, 600 or 700 lbs. of flour (which they tied up), half
a basket of tobacco, 100 lbs. of sugar, a bag of tea, and a
considerable quantity of slop clothing: so great ingenuity was
displayed in the attack, that for some time it was supposed that
Europeans had conducted it. On the same day, the natives plundered
a hut, opposite to Mr. Scott's, of all the tea, sugar, flour, and
bedding, that were in it.
October 16th. The settlement at Sorell attacked by natives: one
severely wounded; four houses plundered of blankets, flour, tea and
sugar, and clothes of every description. 18th. Captain Stewart's
shepherd wounded by spears, and Mr. Guildas, a settler, killed by
two spear wounds. 19th, Natives showed themselves on the farms of
Messrs. Gatehouse and Gordon, and attacked the house of Mr. Gough,
whom they wounded severely.
November 16th. Two huts robbed on the Ouse. 18th. Captain Wight's
shepherd killed by natives; dreadfully mangled twenty-seven sheep.
A hut on the South Esk attacked by natives: every thing portable
sent off.
February 3rd, 1831. The natives attacked Mr. Bursby's house, on the
Tamar; speared Mr. Wallace in several parts of the body, and
inflicted several severe and dangerous wounds on his head: they
likewise wounded a child. The hut of Allright attacked by them;
plundered of every thing it had in it. The hut of Mr. Sutherland,
Nork Esk, robbed: three horses speared, three others wounded. A
woman, named M'Haskell, killed at Retreat, near Westbury: house
robbed of 300 lbs. of flour, knives and forks, blankets, chest of
tea, 100 lbs. of sugar, tobacco, two casks of butter, three
muskets, and powder. 7th. Stewart's house attacked by natives, who
were beaten off.
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