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Commissioner Crown Lands Office
Gipp’s Land 19th March 1847

No 41/47

Sir,
Having been informed
by Mr Warman lately attached
to the party from Melbourne,
sent to this District in search
of the white female supposed
to be detained by the wild Blacks
that the Native Police had
on the 21st January last shot
14 Blacks in a scrub between
Summer Hill and Spring Hill
on the River Macalister-

I have the honor to
inform you that I have
Made Enquiry, and find
there

His Honor
C. J. La Trobe
&c &c &c

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Copd CH
9/4/46

No 47/602
6th Apl 1847
The Crn Cr of Gipps Ld
States that frm enquiry
made he believes that there
is no foundatn for ye rumour
that 14 Blacks were killed by ye
Native Police

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there is no foundation for
this report - Such a report
however seems to have been
spread by a man called
Yorky in the service of Mr Foster,
as he terms it, “for a Lark.”
probably for the purpose of
Supplying Mr Warman with
Matter for his journal-

I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your Honor’s most obed Servant
Charles J. Tyers
Comm C.L