Site Name | Mt Haldon, Darling Downs Pastoral District |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
Language Group, Nation or People | Yugara |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
Police District | Drayton |
Latitude | -27.843 |
Longitude | 152.262 |
Date | 30 Jul 1843 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 12 |
Victims Killed Notes | |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Crowns Land Commissioner, Government Official(s), Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Musket(s) |
Narrative | Christopher 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). |
Sources | French, 1989, p 104; Rolleston to Col Sec, August 15, October 12, 1843, CCL Correspondence 1843, SRNSW, 4/2601 (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | *** |