| Site Name | Dairy Plains Meander River (3) |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Port Sorell [Pallittore North] |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Launceston |
| Latitude | -41.55 |
| Longitude | 146.553 |
| Date | 15 Sep 1826 |
| Attack Time | night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M at least six unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: stockmen |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M James Cupit - Stock keepers wounded - unspecified, F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | spears, firearms |
| Narrative | A report in the Hobart Town Gazette stated: “it is with pain we learn that a skirmish has taken place between a numerous tribes of the black natives, and some stock-keepers, 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.” A week later, the Hobart Town Gazette reported that following the skirmish, James Cupit (Cubit) and some stock keepers attacked a Pallittorre [Port Sorell] camp at night and killed more than six people. |
| Sources | HTG September 23 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679510 1826,CTTA http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page678999 1826 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
