BESLEGED BY BLACKFELLOWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2290, 29 November 1889, Page 2

BESLEGED BY BLACKFELLOWS.

Particulars of an encounter with b'soka have been received by Mr Jk A. Macartney, o£ Waverley Station, near Broadsound (saya an Australian exchange) They show that early m September a party of drovers went to Macartney's station, Auvergne, on the Ylctoria river,, between 400 and 500 mil es from Port Darwin to select cattle. Early on the morning of the 4th they left the head staturo accompanied by all bands belonging to the run, with the exoeption o£ the manager, Thomas Hardy, to muster. The party had scarcely been gone half an hour when a mob of blacks appeared on the eoane armed with spears and attacked Hardy, who received two wounds, one m the hand and the other m the right breast. The latter wound waß fortunately not deep, bat bled very profusely. Hardy, who wav alone, rushed back to the house and barricaded It, and he remained a prisoner foT three Says, all the blacks being camped outside luring the whole of the time, and preventing him from stirring out. Eventually 3ome of the mustering party returned find the aboriginals fled, but by that time Sardy had beooms delirious and wot m a ?ery bad w.iy. Arrangements we're made ;e take the wounded man to Port DirwitK >ufc hiq ieatU haw elpoe beta roportia, f