| Site Name | Warrego |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Margany |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -30.04 |
| Longitude | 146.082 |
| Date | Between 1 Aug 1866 and 5 Sep 1866 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Native Police |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | |
| Narrative | On 5 September 1866 news arrived from Warrego that strongly implied a massacre had occurred involving the Native Police: 'News arrived here last night that the Bulla blacks
attacked Mr. William Sly, spearing his horse, and that a lesson has been gently taught them not likely to be forgotten. I am glad to say that an energetic officer,
with a sergeant and a troop of black troopers, are stationed on the Yougha Creek, and their presence has had a beneficial result already' (The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 6 Sep 1866, p 4). According to Dargin, Mr Sly was one of Bourke's first publicans (Dargin, p 59). |
| Sources | The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 6 Sep 1866, p 4 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18730560; Evening News, 27 Sep 1877 p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108201527 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
