MANLY SPORT, INDEED!

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2480, 2 March 1881, Page 4

MANLY SPORT, INDEED!

The following paragraph extracted from a recent issue of fhe “ 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, made tracks in ‘double-quick 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 had 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 ot 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 hunted as soon as she was sighted, and before it was known that her companions had “ killed a cow.” It will also be noted that our Northern contemporary seems 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 five years.”