DASTARDLY OUTRAGE AT MOONLIGHT (WAKATIP.)
(From a Correspondent) |L The European miners at the Moonlight Creek, Lake Wakatip, have been doing a||‘ very foolish thing. Some five weeks ago,||, u number of Chinese (11) proceeded to that| i mountainous region and asked some of the|3f Europeans where they might “catch him! 1 gold.” They wore pointed out the bed the old, worked creek. So well satistied|| c were they with the results of their wash-ill ings-up that they built a comfortable hut,| and thatched it with straw. They wererj also building a similar residence about!? 6 three miles higher up the creek. Theilc lower house is situated under a high bluffrap or precipice of rocks ; and on Friday nightly the Chinese were wakened up by largo masses of rock being rolled downer upon their roof from above. stricken, they escaped, asking tho Euro-I * pean miners why they wanted to kill?. y Chinamen 1 One Chinaman was severely; c hurt, and others more or less so. Their? • appearance was also the signal for yells ofi * derision. When they reached Lawton and'-;'j. Gardiner’s station they were given the! f, woolshed to pass the night in. On Mondnyp) the police received notice, and SergcantsL?
Fox and Constable M'Gann j, started for the locality. They yesterday, and report that the Chinese'- | statomout was quite correct; that an at-|s|) tempt was made to burn the roof of the: lower hut, but failed, owing to the grass hj being damp; that the upper hut (iu coursepa of erection) was completely burnt; and|,-J that the offenders could not be by the Chinese, which is no wonder, underpin the circumstances. It would be only® honorable and would tell much in their)favor if the other section of minors would denounce the savages whofe were capable of so cowardly and fiendish/» an attack upon sleeping and 1 '/Mess men.» The Chinese will re-ocoupy the under the protection of the police. Thfl|| e latter deserve ovci , y praise for their promptgif actitm. ® m
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 19, 23 March 1870, Page 4
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332DASTARDLY OUTRAGE AT MOONLIGHT (WAKATIP.) Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 19, 23 March 1870, Page 4
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