MANLY SPORT, INDEED!

Kumara Times, Issue 1384, 9 March 1881, Page 2

MANLY SPORT, INDEED!

The following paragraph, extracted from a recent issue of the Hodgkinson 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-hunting excursion, and when getting as far as Wooster’s paddock, distant about three miles from Thornborough, came upon a mob of blacks camped, who, on perceiving Doyle, iim mediately made tracks in * doublequick time.’ The dogs accompanying Doyle gave chase, and overtook one of the gins, and tore her to such an extent that she died almost as soon as they were drawn off their victim. Doyle, on returning to the camp suddenly vacated-by the blacks, discovered that they hud killed a cow, and were about to appease their .appetites i>yhen they

‘were-disturbed. It is anything but 'creditable to the Government to allow Such a state of things as this to exist. Blacks in the present day to be roaming about within a short three miles of a populous town like Thornborough, established now nearly five years, and ’slaying the cattle of its residents, is truly Shameful.” It will be observed 'that the unfortunate black woman was bunted &s soon as she was sighted, and before it was known that her comj&niohs had “ killed a cow.” It will also be noted that our Northern contemporary seems to be shocked, not at hll by the sport that Doyle indulged in, but by the fact that the blacks are still &Uve td roam about within three miles Of a township established “ nearly five .years.”