| Site Name | Belbora, between Gloucester & Wingham |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Binghi |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Gloucester |
| Latitude | -32.007 |
| Longitude | 152.185 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1834 and 31 Dec 1834 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Poison |
| Narrative | According to the Wingham Chronicle (April 25, 1922, p2) following Binghi warriors stealing cattle from the Australian Agricultural Company's 'heifer station at Baker's Creek, 12 miles north east of Gloucester,' (near Mount Ganghat) in 1834, employees ‘The men beleagured in the hut were
driven to dire straits, and as a last
resource mixed arsenic in dampers
and placed them where the natives
had easy access to them. The result
was deadly to the natives. The black
warriors lay down and died all
around.' |
| Sources | Wingham Chronicle, April 25, 1922, p. 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166220492; Newcastle Morning Herald, July 25, 1964; Fitzpatrick, 1925, p 29. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
