Site NameMt Haldon, Darling Downs Pastoral District
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name
Language Group, Nation or PeopleYugara
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeNSW
Police DistrictDrayton
Latitude-27.843
Longitude152.262
Date30 Jul 1843
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed12
Victims Killed Notes
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsCrowns Land Commissioner, Government Official(s), Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedFirearm(s), Musket(s)
NarrativeChristopher Rolleston, CCL Darling Downs and party cornered Aboriginal people in daylight in the Range scrub, three days after Yugara people killed Richard White, a shepherd on Sibley and King's Haldon run and drove off 1874 sheep (French, 1989, p 104). Rolleston estimated that twelve Yugara people were killed (Rolleston to Col Sec, August 15, October 12, 1843, CCL Correspondence 1843, SRNSW, 4/2601).
SourcesFrench, 1989, p 104; Rolleston to Col Sec, August 15, October 12, 1843, CCL Correspondence 1843, SRNSW, 4/2601 (Sources PDF)
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