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47/210
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Sydney, 23d April 1847.

Sir,
In acknowledging the receipt
of your letter of the 10th Instant,
No 47/354, enclosing the copy of one
addressed to you by the
Commissioner of Crown Lands
Gipps’ Land, stating that he
had enquired into a report
promulgated by a Mr
Warman one of the persons
sent from Melbourne in
search of the White Female
supposed to be detained by
the

His Honor
the Superintendent
of Port Phillip

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No 47/770

30th April 1847

The Col Sec
In ansr to
letter statg that ye rumour of ye
destrn of 14 blacks at Summer Hill
& was fd to be witht foundtn

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the wild natives of Gipps Land,
that the Native Police had on
the 21st January last, shot
fourteen Blacks in a Scrub
between Summer Hill and
Spring Hill on the River Mc
Alister, and had found it
to be without foundation-
I am directed by His Excellency
the Governor to observe, that
Mr Warman should be
apprised accordingly.

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