Lull in fighting at Wide Bay, warriors on K'Gari, 2 police detachments prepare

Date: 1 Dec 1851 – 17 Jan 1852
Place: K'Gari Fraser Island

"WIDE BAY.—We are informed by a gentleman who left Wide Bay on the 26th of last month, that the shearing was all over, and had been got through without any difficulty on the score of labor. There was a temporary cessation in the depredations of the blacks in that quarter. A Mr. Roche had brought in a small quantity of scale gold, said to have been found in the dis-trict. A portion of it had been taken to Sydney by Mr. Commissioner Bidwell, who left Wide Bay for that port in the schooner Albion. Mr. Walker and Mr. Marshall, each with a company of police, were on the point of starting from Maryborough for Frazers Island, on the 24th ultimo, for the purpose of endeavouring to appre-hend some of the aborigines charged with offences, and supposed to have taken refuge there. They were to go in the Marguerite and Mary schooner, which had been engaged for the purpose. Our informant adds that the parties were to go without horses—an arrangement which some thought objectionable, on account of the size of the island.—Moreton Bay Courier" (The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser 1852, January 17, p. 4.)

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  • Lull in fighting at Wide Bay, warriors on K'Gari, 2 police detachments prepare
    1 Dec 1851 – 17 Jan 1852 — K'Gari Fraser Island

    "WIDE BAY.—We are informed by a gentleman who left Wide Bay on the 26th of last month, that the shearing was all over, and had been got through without any difficulty on the score of labor. There was a temporary cessation in the depredations of the blacks in that quarter. A Mr. Roche had brought in a small quantity of scale gold, said to have been found in the dis-trict. A portion of it had been taken to Sydney by Mr. Commissioner Bidwell, who left Wide Bay for that port in the schooner Albion. Mr. Walker and Mr. Marshall, each with a company of police, were on the point of starting from Maryborough for Frazers Island, on the 24th ultimo, for the purpose of endeavouring to appre-hend some of the aborigines charged with offences, and supposed to have taken refuge there. They were to go in the Marguerite and Mary schooner, which had been engaged for the purpose. Our informant adds that the parties were to go without horses—an arrangement which some thought objectionable, on account of the size of the island.—Moreton Bay Courier" (The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser 1852, January 17, p. 4.)

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    Sydney News. (1852, January 17). The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), p. 4. Retrieved January 1, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article675277