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VPRS 19/P Inward Registered Correspondence, Superintendent Port Phillip District, unit 92, item 47/907
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into two parties - about a hundred
yards apart - there being seven
gunnias in Each camp - One party
proceeded towards the snowy River:
the other remained- Of the party
that remained seven gins were
taken- They told us that Bun-
geleena and the White woman
had gone to the Snowy river -
The Native Police not having carried
provisions with them - the party
was compelled to return-
We arrived at the Border
Police Station on the 4th of July
I am
Sir
Your most obedt Sevt
(Signed) Samuel Windridge
Sergt Border Police
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Native Police Station
Gipps Land, 24th July 1846
To the Commissioner
of Crown Lands
Gipps Land
Sir,
I acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 1st of April
last - in which it was your request
that I should proceed with Mr Mc
Millan’s Storekeeper, two troopers of the
Native Police and the Native boy
Tackawadden, in search of his father
who is said to belong to the Lake
Wellington Tribe- I accordingly
went to Mr Macmillan’s Station on
the 12th of April to inform the Store-
keeper that I was ready to proceed,
his reply was that he would be ready
for a start on the morning following,
this however was not accomplished,
in consequence of Mr Macmillan being
obliged to go from home- I again
went to the Station on the 15th when
I found a letter from the Storekeeper
stating that he declined being one of
the party, as the boy was not willing
to go