MANLY SPORT INDEED!

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2189, 2 March 1881, Page 2

MANLY SPORT INDEED!

The following paragraph extracted Iron a recent iinie of the “ Hodgkineon Independent,” of Queensland, affords an indication of the sentiments with which the aborigines of that continent are regarded by some of the white settlers : “ On Sunday morning last a person named Martin Doyle, while out on a kangaroo-hunt-ing excursion, and when getting as far as Wooster’s paddock, distant about three miles from Ihornborough, came upon a mob of blacks camped, who, on perceiving Doyle, immediately made tracks in 'double-quick time.’ Tne dogs accompanying Doyle gave chase, and overtook one of the gins, and tore her to such on extent that she died almost as soon ss they were drawn off their victim. Doyle, on returning to the camp suddenly vacated by the blacks, discovered that they bad killed a cow, and were about to appease their appetites when they were disturbed. It is anything but creditable to the Government to allow such a state of things os this to exist. Blacks in the present day to be roaming about within a short three miles of a papulous town like Tfaornborongh, established now netriy five years, and slaying the cattle of its residents, is truly shameful.” It will be observed that the unfortunate black woman was hunted as soon as she was sighted, and before it wbi known that her companions had " killed a cow.” It will also bo noted that our Northern contemporary scorns to be shocked, not at all by the sport that Doyle indulged in, but by the fact that blacks are still alive to roam about within three miles of a township established "nearly jive years.”