Site Name Manumbar Station, Burnett River region
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Waka Waka
Colony QLD
Present State/Territory QLD
Police District
Latitude -26.367
Longitude 152.361
Date Between 1 Jan 1861 and 31 Dec 1861
Attack Time day
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 10
Victims Killed Notes
Attackers Colonisers: Native Police
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes
Transport Horse
Motive Opportunity
Weapons Used Firearms, carbines
Narrative R R Morisset and a detachment of native police shot and killed at least 10 Aboriginal people near Manumbar Station, 50 kms south east of Murgon.
Sources QPV&PLA 1861; Bottoms 2013:6, 51 (Sources PDF)
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