“The blacks having lately been rather troublesome in the neighbourhood of the Isaacs River and Logan Downs, the detachment of Native Police stationed near Nebo paid a visit to these localities during the last month, and ‘dispersed’ a few of them. A number of opossum rugs were secured by the police, and no doubt our sable brethren will profit considerably by the lesson taught them. Some are, of course, past teaching, but the survivors will be forcibly struck with the more than retributive justice which is shown by the whites, ordering the slaughter of the blacks and the robbery of their camps in return for the robbery of certain shepherds’ huts, which, rightly or wrongly, have been laid at their door.”