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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 560, 16 March 1868, Page 3

Muedeb by Australian Blacks. —A letter from a gentleman near the Paroo informs the Dnbbo Despatch that theb acts hare perpetrated a most cowardly and brutal murder on the outer Barcoo. It appears that a gentleman named Fanning recently took uj some country on theJ3arcoo—better known Cooper’s Creek, the! scene o{ the melancholy death of poor Bicharu o' Hara Burke, and Ins brother explorer, young M ills. He went to visit a station some sixty miles distant, further up the river, and is said to have camped on a plain between the Wild Horse Creek and tue .Darcoo. His horse broke away and carried with it the saddle and a r.-volrer, thus leaving Mr Fanning completely a victim to the aborigines, who it is thought at once set upon and murdered him. His body was found much disfigured. Hitherto the Barcoo blacks have been harmless enough, and our info-mant is at a loss to assign a reason for their attacking poor Mr Fanning, who was very kind and generous to them.