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great services were anticipated from the doing of the Corps
upon its arrival in the frontier districts, and the result
has proved thus for to have been severe disappointment
this police has generally borne - high character for discipline
and for affording protection, but it is said to be trammelled
with such restrictive orders from the Executive, as to render
its services useless for the purposes intended, and the sooner
we are rid of them and left to manages the Savages
ourselves the better - we have been [...confiding] in them and
are now suffering severely for our cupidity.
I would suggest that this Corps is travelling
too much over the country, and thereby rendering their Horses unfit
for hard work - its consequences is much felt in another way
as where they go they must be victualled, and this in
many instances nearly creates a famine on some stations
if they are to be continued they would be much more
efficient for the intended purpose by being put into several
detachments, and these permanently stationed in different
parts of the districts.
I trust I have said enough to awaken
the sympathies of Government in our behalf, and that
His Excellency will be pleased to cause such orders to
be issued as will place this body of Police, in a position
to afford the stock proprietors the protection so much needed.
I have the Honor to be
Sir
Your mst obed't serv't
Richard Jones
PS. Since writing the above one of the Residents in the Burnett
district has arrived here, and informs me the Native police left that
part in June last _-and that immediately before he left the district, a Mr
Street lately arrived there with his stock had been treacheruously murdered by the Blacks