Site Name | Dairy Plains (2), Meander River |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Port Sorell [Pallittore North] |
Present State/Territory | TAS |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
Police District | Launceston |
Latitude | -41.55 |
Longitude | 146.553 |
Date | 15 Sep 1826 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 6 |
Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M at least six unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Stockkeeper(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M James Cupit - Stock keepers wounded - unspecified, F |
Transport | Foot |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Spear(s) |
Narrative | A report in the Hobart Town Gazette(September 23, 1826, p2) stated: 'It is with pain we learn that a skirmish has taken place between numerous tribes of the black natives, and some stockkeepers, on the other side of the island, in which many of the former were severely wounded, if not slain. They made, it would appear, an outrageous attack on the cattle and persons of the stockmen, and provoked them to fire in self-defence.' |
Sources | HTG September 23, 1826 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679510 (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | * |