“We learn that intelligence has been received from Lieutenant Murray, the officer in command of the detachment at Port Curtis, that a sergeant and two troopers of the native police, who had been despatched to complete a marked tree line between Port Curtis and Traylan, were attacked by native blacks on the 10th ultimo, while encamped and asleep, and had considerable difficulty in beating off their assailants. The sergeant and one of the troopers were severely cut on their heads and the other trooper received a spear wound in the chest. The men had returned to Port Curtis, and were rapidly recovering. It is believed that the blacks who made the attack were not aware of the quality of their opponents, but supposed them to be a travelling party of whites.”