Unit Id Item Date Range Description 1 Description 2 Description 3 Description 4 Description 5
16 Item 04 Feb 1861 - 04 Feb 1861 File 123/1861 John Field, L. Corporal, Angaston Police Station: Stating back veranda of Station blown down by a whirlwind. Mr Treloar offers to repair for nine shillings.
16 Item 15 Oct 1860 - 05 Dec 1860 File 1065/1860 Secretary, Commissioner of Lands: Instructions respecting Stuart's exploring expedition.
16 01 Jan 1860 - 01 Jan 1861 Files 711/1860 to 268/1861 NE GRG/MRG Unit
16 Item 24 Aug 1860 - 05 Sep 1860 File 919/1860 Trooper T. Rickarby, Goolwa Police Station: Reporting the wretched and pitiful situation of the natives at Point McLeay and the Port Elliot area and lack of medical attention for them.
16 Item - File 940/1860
16 Item 01 Jan 1861 - 01 Jan 1861 File 53/1861 Police Trooper J. Geharty, Venus Bay Police Station: Quarterly report on natives. Their conduct in employment commended.
16 Item 10 Sep 1861 - 10 Sep 1861 File 102A/1861 Commisisoner of Police as Protector of Aborigines: Report to Government following his inspection at Port Lincoln. Protesting the conviction and imprisonment (chained around the neck) of an Aborigine convicted on a doubtful charge.
16 Item 04 Jul 1860 - 04 Jul 1860 File 764/1860 Corporal J. Wauhop, Angipena Police Station: Justifying the sending of two troopers to Stuart Creek due to native threat and presence of the Goyder Expedition in the area.
16 Item 23 Jan 1861 - 23 Jan 1861 File 102/1861 B.L. Laurie, Magistrate, Normanville: Advising Commissioner of detention ot 15 year old Jane White in Police cells in lieu of sending to Adelaide with male prisoners. An irregular procedure explained in defence of Corporal Birrell.
16 Item - File 1082/1860
17 Item - File 921/1861
17 Item 11 Apr 1861 - 12 Apr 1861 File 362/1861 W. Reid, Inspector Impossible situation re native witnesses being kept in Police cells. Opinion of Attorney General sought
17 Item 01 Oct 1861 - 08 Oct 1861 File 857/1861 W. Geharty, Police Trooper, Venus Bay Police Station: Quarterly Report on native conduct. Reporting that most natives in settlers' employ have gone a bush hunt. Stone waterholes drying up. Difficulty in obtaining native labour by settlers.
17 Item 16 Nov 1861 - 27 Dec 1861 File 1009/1861 George Hamilton, Chief Inspector, Wellington Police Station: Jack Hamilton, Aborigine, killed in fight at Point McLeay between Murray and Mundoo Island tribes. Death caused by spear thrown by native Nattra from Lake Albert Station. Suggestion of inaction by Police to prevent the fight. Includes letters from Tilney Cotton Jack Hamilton's employer and George Taplin, Superintendent of Point McLeay.
17 Item 19 Mar 1861 - 20 May 1861 File 268/1861 G. Ayliffe, Police Trooper, Kapunda Police Station. Murder of Mrs Rainbird and her two children. Arrest of five natives at Macaw Creek. Four native witnesses taken into cusody pending trial. Four natives convicted and hanged.
17 01 Jan 1861 - 01 Jan 1861 Files 268/1861 to 1042/1861 NE GRG/MRG Unit
17 Item 08 Apr 1861 - 10 Apr 1861 File 361and a half/1861 Commissioner Warburton: Accommodation for native witnesses. The Superintendent of the Destitute Asylum notes "the male wards are already fearfully overcrowded, some of the inmates being obliged to sleep on the tables."
17 Item 12 Sep 1860 - 21 Sep 1860 File 787/1861 James Howe, PT, Wirrily SA [? on Bandicoot Plains, 145 miles south of Blanche]: Reporting native 'Sambo' in possession of two sets of white men's hair and of white men in poor condition "20 sleeps away". Stating probability that white men's hair in possession of Aboriginal 'Sambo' belongs to the survivors of the Burke and Wills party and informed Mr McKinlay.
17 Item - File 999/1861
17 Item 18 Mar 1861 - 10 Aug 1861 File 339/1861 Trooper D. Morgan, Wellington Police Station: Robbery of W. Barton Hack's store at Parnka on the Coorong by natives, use of native Jerry Robins as guide and informer, role of Mr Mason as Sub-Protector, his ability to speak natives' language. Account of the protracted investigation, Commissioner's verdict that Trooper Morgan's account was a "cock and bull story". Defence of PT Morgan by Inspector Hamilton.