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Extract from the Commanders
Report of proceedings of the Native
Police from 10th March to 27 July last.
Callandoon
1st August
12th It was with much regret
I found that the Police who
had returned with Mr
Fulford had not asI hoped
escaped the sickness from
which their comrades had
suffered so much. Mr Fulforde
had in consequence not been
able to carry out my instructions
for relieving Mr Marshall.
As the Burnett and Wide
Bay Districts have thus
been unavoidably left
longer without protection
than I could anticipate
I am using every exertion
to