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51/8583 - 3rd. Sept 1851.

A. Hay
Reporting murder of a
Shepherd by the Blacks and
complaining of withdrawal of
Native Police

Gigooringan
11 August 1851

To the Honble
The Colonial Secretary

Sir
I have the honor to
inform you that another out-
rage has been committed by the
Blacks on my station, a shepherd
has been murdered and his
flock of Fourteen hundred sheep
taken, which with great
exertion I have been enabled
to recover. This outrage would
not in all probability have
occurred had the Native

[marginalia]
Let Mr Hay
be informed in
accordance with
the extract from
the Commandant's
letter herewith.
6th Ch FR
/8

Mr Hay
10 Sept 1851 -

51/899