Site NameDunjarrobina Waterhole
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeQLD
Police District
Latitude-22.047
Longitude146.618
Date28 Sep 1866
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed8
Victims Killed Notes8-10
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsNative Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedSnider(s)
NarrativeTwo weeks after the Aboriginal killing of Henry Clark on the Belyando River, 83 miles (133 km) from the native police camp at Mt McConnell, a detachment of 18 native police troopers led by Reginald Uhr and Frederick Murray, and accompanied by Mr Bulgin, manager of St Anne's station on the Suttor River, arrived at the Belyando and 'proceeded on their tracks, and after some days' pursuit, overtook, and succeeded in shooting eight or ten of the blacks' (Brisbane Courier, November 2, 1866, p 2). It appears that the massacre took place at Dunjarrobina Waterhole.
SourcesBrisbane Courier, November 2, 1866, p 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1276219; Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, December 19, 1903, p12 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19131405. (Sources PDF)
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