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45/52
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Sydney, 24th. January 1845.

Sir,-
I have submitted to the Governor
your Honor’s letter of the 17th Instant,
enclosing a copy of a letter from
the Chief Protector of Aborigines
reporting an affray which took
place on the night of the 8th Instant
at Mr. D. C. Simson’s station on the
Loddon, between two parties of
Aboriginal Natives, in which two
women and two girls were killed
and three others dangerously wounded.

I am instructed by the
Governor to express to your Honor
the

His Honor
The Superintendent
Port Phillip

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No 45/210
31st Januy 1845
The Col Sec
Acks
ye rect of lettr concing ye
fatal affray betn Natives
near to Mr D Simsons statn

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Entd
J.G.

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the extreme regret with which
His Excellency has received the
intelligence of these outrages.

I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your Honor’s
most obedient Servant,
for the Colonial Secretary
W. Elyard Jun