Showing 301-400 of 1,483 results
| Unit Id | Item | Date Range | Description 1 | Description 2 | Description 3 | Description 4 | Description 5 |
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| 19 | Item | 10 Sep 1862 - 04 Nov 1862 | File 1209/1862 (includes 1214/1862 and 1438/1862) | 'A Shepherd': Letter to Register and Observer newspaper alleging "nigger hunting" at Fowler's Bay by white settlers, forwarded to the Police Commissioner. | Investigaton by Inspector Holroyd finds no supporting evidence. Letter written by 3 shepherds dismissed for bad conduct ( Harry Scaife, George Lewis and James McGrath). Scaife formerly Clerk of Angaston Court, dismissed for embezzlement. | ||
| 19 | Item | 20 Oct 1862 - 14 Dec 1862 | File 1420/1862 | Sgt. Dyke, Port Adelaide Police Station: George Douglas alias George Brown alias James Stevenson, convicted of the rape of Mrs Grant at Hogg Bay in 1844, reported at large on Kangaroo Island. | Steps taken for his recovery and removal to Tasmania. | ||
| 19 | Item | 01 Jan 1862 - 31 Dec 1862 | File 943/1862 | Commissioner of Police: Awaiting instructions re prisoner Wilson (Malachi Martin case). | |||
| 19 | Item | 01 Jan 1862 - 31 Dec 1862 | File 929/1862 | P.T. Smyth, Wellington Police Station: Evidence of witness as to horse dray alluded to by Malachi Martin. | |||
| 20 | Item | - | File 458/1863 | ||||
| 20 | 01 Jan 1863 - 01 Jan 1863 | Files 1/1863 to 1100/1863 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 20 | Item | - | File 197/1863 | ||||
| 20 | Item | 23 Feb 1863 - 24 Oct 1864 | File 306/1863 (large bundle of files) | "Natives. Far North". | PCO 306/1863 has also been used to file other files relating to aboriginal matters in the Far North generally. | Includes PCO files 1166, 1167, 1168, 1192, 1198, 1207, 1251, 1262, 1300, 1303, 1304, 1304, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1325, 1336, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1643, 1901, 1947 of 1863 and | 73, 144, 145, 146, 163, 164, 179, 192, 437, 479, 1299, 1769 of 1864. For easier identification of the writer/subject of these files use GRG5/3. |
| 20 | Item | 16 Feb 1863 - 23 Feb 1863 | File 260/1863 | P.T. Howe, Angaston Police Station: Repairs required at the station and disagreeable smell arising from the stable. | |||
| 20 | Item | 18 Feb 1863 - 24 Feb 1863 | File 280/1863 | Police Trooper James Heggie, Tanunda Police Station: Repairs to stable wall. | |||
| 21 | Item | 03 Feb 1863 - 11 Dec 1863 | File 1886/1863 | Corporal Wauhop, Mt. Serle Police Station | Sheep killing at Beltana and affrays with natives | ||
| 21 | 01 Jan 1863 - 01 Jan 1863 | Files 1104/1863 to 1960/1863 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 21 | Item | - | File 1912/1863 | ||||
| 21 | Item | - | File 1357/1863 | ||||
| 22 | Item | 31 May 1864 - 03 Sep 1864 | File 1152/1864 (includes files 1167/1864; 1531/1864; 1533/1864) | Memorandum re George B. Smith, Issuers of Stores, Mt. Remarkable intimating his intention to make his Report an annual one. | Protector of Aborigines proposing to have stores issued by the Police at Mt. Remarkable. Objections raised by the Police Commissioner, due to division of authority. | This file gives an indication why the office of Protector of Aborigines was later filled by the Police Commissioner. | |
| 22 | Item | 26 May 1864 - 16 Jul 1864 | File 818/1864 | Edward Jones alias Maurice Perry, convict illegally at large, to be returned to Western Australia. | Proceedings against the Steward of the 'Rangatira'. | ||
| 22 | 01 Jan 1864 - 01 Jan 1864 | Files 2/1864 to 1353/1864 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 22 | Item | 03 Jun 1864 - 03 Jun 1864 | File 900/1864 | Police Commissioner: Amendment to certificate regarding expirees and ticket-of-leave men. | |||
| 22 | Item | 05 Feb 1864 - 15 Feb 1864 | File 218/1864 | Inspector Holroyd, Port Lincoln: Reporting arrest of native for murder at Mount Wedge. | |||
| 22 | Item | 06 Jun 1864 - 14 Jun 1864 | File 930/1864 | Police Corporal Thomas Berrill, Yankalilla: Application for publican's licence at Silverton Hotel via Rapid Bay | [Mentions Mr Hunter, Mr Powning / Pownding, and others] | [Also contains File 955/1864] | SRC GRG motion, 09/11/1999 |
| 22 | Item | 16 Jun 1864 - 12 Jul 1864 | File 1213/1864 | A. Harte PT, Mount Wedge Police Station: Reporting pursuit of suspect Alexander Miller to Gawler Ranges and arrested for the murder of native Meenulta. | Also reporting police horse 'Lawyer' has died due to injuries sustained from falling into a waterhole. | PT Oldham proceeding to Adelaide with prisoners Alexander Miller and R[ussell?] Barton. | |
| 22 | Item | 01 Jan 1864 - 01 Jan 1864 | File 416/1864 | Corporal James Wauhop, Mount Serle: Death of Annie Martin, intestate, residing near Blinman. | |||
| 22 | Item | 12 Apr 1864 - 09 Jun 1864 | File 578/1864 | Police Trooper Howes, Angaston: Repairs required to roof and cell at Police Station | |||
| 22 | Item | 06 May 1864 - 11 May 1864 | File 717/1864 | A. Etheridge, Sergeant of Police, Port Adelaide: Receipt of reward money from the Marine Board for the apprehension of David Salmon by P.C. Weman. | |||
| 23 | Item | 01 Oct 1864 - 17 Oct 1864 | File 1856/1864 | Allegation by Michael MacMahon Ganley of Pine Creek, Saddleworth, that a person named Miller has ill-used 2 natives and other complaints, together with Police Trooper Robert Morris' report re theft of lambs at Streaky Bay by Aborigines Ben and Billy. | |||
| 23 | Item | - | P.C.O. 2109 of 1864 | ||||
| 23 | Item | - | File 2127/1864 | ||||
| 23 | Item | - | File 1608/1864 | ||||
| 23 | 01 Jan 1864 - 01 Jan 1865 | Files 1362/1864 to 398/1865 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 23 | Item | - | File 2102/1864 | ||||
| 23 | Item | 14 Nov 1864 - 19 Nov 1864 | File 1915/1864 | J. Howe, Police Station, Angaston: Report relative to the death of Mrs Bidgeway. | |||
| 23 | Item | 09 Sep 1864 - 18 Nov 1864 | File 1543/1864 | Inspector Peterwald, Adelaide: Advising two vessels, 'Europa' and 'Kestrel' at Albany loading for S.A. and Victoria have more than 60 expirees as passengers in each. | Letter from Francis Dutton, House of Assembly to the Chief Secretary re Victorian legislative provisions re entry of expirees to Victoria. | ||
| 24 | Item | 28 Apr 1865 - 27 Apr 1866 | File 1374/1865 (includes other files) | Convicts Prevention Act No. 9 of 1865. | |||
| 24 | Item | - | File 1549/1865 | ||||
| 24 | 01 Jan 1865 - 01 Jan 1865 | Files 405/1865 to 1800/1865 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 24 | Item | 09 Aug 1865 - 09 Aug 1865 | File 1361/1865 ("Cancelled by order of the Commissioner") | Letter (not sent?) to the Chief Secretary from the Commissioner relating to the propriety of notifying the W.A. authorities re nature of Act No. 9 of 1865 'Convicts Prevention Act'. | |||
| 24 | Item | 01 Jul 1862 - 13 Jul 1862 | File 1136/1865 | C. Provis, Police Trooper, Venus Bay Police Station: Arrest and trial of natives Choopa and Chilcherrie on three charges of robbery of property of Messrs. Bryant, James Geharty and Mr Love. Native witness Nalyatta. | Further trial on charges laid by P.T. James O'Shanahan for robbery of property of Robert Standly. | ||
| 24 | Item | 16 May 1865 - 26 May 1865 | File 843/1865 | A. Scott, Office of Inspector of Police, Hobart Town: Re the current status of Alfred Lewis a transported offender. | |||
| 24 | Item | - | File 811/1865 | ||||
| 25 | Item | 20 Mar 1866 - 24 Apr 1866 | File 642/1866 | H. Kidney, Tanunda Police Station: Requesting repairs to Police Stable. | |||
| 25 | Item | 05 Mar 1866 - 10 Mar 1866 | File 461/1866 | Commissioner Warburton: Trooper Bleechmore posted to Port Lincoln district. | |||
| 25 | Item | - | File 302/1866 | ||||
| 25 | 01 Jan 1865 - 01 Jan 1866 | Files 1801/1865 to 679/1866 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 25 | Item | 29 Jan 1866 - 19 Apr 1866 | File 597/1866 | Report on new Police Stations. | Also contains PCO 188/1866 and 744/1866 on the same subject. | ||
| 25 | Item | 01 Jan 1866 - 01 Jan 1866 | File 325/1866 (and other files) | Police protection at various country localities and Adelaide suburbs. | Includes PCO files 1345, 1415, 1501, 1701, 1896, 1952, 1972, 1992, 2100 of 1866 | ||
| 25 | Item | 18 Oct 1865 - 26 Oct 1865 | File 1876/1865 | Relative to reduction of numbers of Mounted Police in certain districts. | |||
| 25 | Item | - | File 537/1866 | ||||
| 25 | Item | - | File 449/1866 | ||||
| 25 | Item | - | File 466/1866 | ||||
| 25 | Item | 08 Jan 1866 - 14 May 1868 | File 56/1866 | Cattle stealing and affray between natives and settlers at Lake Hope | Also gives incidental details of the difficulties faced by horses and officers in the northern terrain | Also contains PCO 99, 135, 144, 187, 331-332, 428, 496, 589, 590, 602, 627, 809, 1929/1866; 401/1867; 538/1868 | |
| 25 | Item | 05 Feb 1866 - 16 Feb 1866 | File 265/1866 | Isaac Birtwhistle, Tanunda: Enquiring if Police officers are allowed to trade in horses etc. | Includes PCO 266/1866; PCO 341/1866 | ||
| 26 | Item | 15 May 1866 - 21 May 1866 | File 1047/1866 | Police Trooper, Tanunda: Reqesting well at Police Station be cleaned out. | |||
| 26 | Item | 21 May 1866 - 28 May 1866 | File 1061/1866 | Commissioner of Police: Protesting instructions given in the Government Gazette of 17th May, 1866 regarding matters pertaining to the Aborigines Branch will henceforth be undertaken by the Protector of Aborigines. | |||
| 26 | Item | 21 Jul 1866 - 21 Jul 1866 | File 1200/1866 | Commission of Police: J. Forster reports Aborigines are very troublsome at Parla (Gawler Ranges). Suggestions by the Protector of Aborigines as to management of Police. | |||
| 26 | Item | 01 Jan 1866 - 31 Dec 1866 | File 1203/1866 (includes other files) | Highway and other robberies, 1866. | |||
| 26 | Item | - | File 1101/1866 | ||||
| 26 | Item | 30 Mar 1866 - 11 Apr 1866 | File 739/1866 | John Buttfield, Sub-Protector of Aborigines, Port Lincoln: Reporting his concern over the relationship between settlers and Aborigines in the Gawler Ranges. | Gives Commissioner Warburton's views on native rights. | ||
| 26 | Item | 09 May 1866 - 09 Mar 1868 | File 983/1866 | Police Station Mount Pleasant | Also includes PCO 982/1866, 2312/1866, 1366/1867, 182/1868 | ||
| 26 | 01 Jan 1866 - 01 Jan 1866 | Files 682/1866 to 1466/1866 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 26 | Item | 18 May 1866 - 04 Jun 1866 | File 1062/1866 | Protector of Aborigines: Police Trooper Crossland at Port Wakefield authorised to use own discretion re distribution of blankets to Aborigines. | |||
| 27 | Item | - | File 2437/1866 | ||||
| 27 | 01 Jan 1866 - 01 Jan 1867 | Files 1483/1866 to 240/1867 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 27 | Item | - | File 2251/1866 | Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of offenders for Highway Robbery | John Kerney alias Captain Thunderbolt. Difficulty in apportioning reward to many claimants. | ||
| 27 | Item | 30 Dec 1866 - 01 Dec 1866 | File 2020/1866 | P.T. Biggs, Mount Pleasant | Serving of summonses on Thomas Randall and John and William Bott | ||
| 27 | Item | 02 Oct 1866 - 08 Oct 1866 | File 1892/1866 | F.J. Deckert, PT, Mount Remarkable Police Station: Requesting to be stationed at Head Quarters. | PT Nash to replace PT Deckert at Mount Remarkable. | ||
| 27 | Item | - | File 1880/1866 | ||||
| 27 | Item | - | File 2211/1866 | ||||
| 27 | Item | - | File 1695/1866 | ||||
| 27 | Item | - | File 1513/1866 | Chief Secretary | Petition received from householders in vicinity of Light Square regarding increase in brothels and irregular houses nearby | ||
| 27 | Item | 02 Oct 1866 - 11 Oct 1866 | File 1871/1866 | Trooper Charles Dechert posted to South Eastern Division per steamer 'Penola'. | |||
| 28 | Item | 19 Feb 1867 - 29 Jul 1868 | File 633/1867 (includes 11 other files) | Blacks, Lake Hope. Files relate to the policing of the Kopperamana area and the Moravian and Lutheran Mission, cattle stealing and skirmishes between natives and settlers. | Includes PCO 418/1867; 636/1867; 644/1867; 687/1867; 692/1867; 934/1867; 979/1867; 1003/1867; 1401/1867; 1025/1868; 1063/1868. | ||
| 28 | Item | 02 Apr 1867 - 05 Apr 1867 | File 689/1867 | Commissioner of Police: Stable buckets received not those contracted for. | |||
| 28 | Item | 01 Feb 1867 - 09 Mar 1867 | File 267/1867 | Corporal Morton, Lake Hope Police Station: Circular Memorandum No. 266/67 re building, equipment and books etc. at station. Report from Lake Hope Station. | |||
| 28 | Item | 30 Jan 1867 - 06 Feb 1867 | File 297/1867 | Herbert B. Hughes, Glenelg: Forwarding extract of letter from his overseer Daniel Kearney at Booyoolee Station relative to grog selling by Mr Creasy. | |||
| 28 | Item | 09 Mar 1867 - 23 Apr 1867 | File 597/1867 | Corporal J. Morton, Lake Hope Police Station: Specifications and plans for Police building at Lake Hope. Suggested use of timber slabs due to lack of suitable stone. Offer by Charles Jones to construct. | |||
| 28 | Item | 30 Jan 1867 - 31 Jan 1867 | File 246/1867 | Commissioner of Police: Enquring if any complaints re gatherings in Police Paddock, Adelaide. | |||
| 28 | Item | 11 Apr 1867 - 11 Apr 1867 | File 266/1867 (798/1867) | Inspector B. Hunt: Report on Police Stations in the South East district giving details of personnel, buildings and equipment at each station. | Includes Penola (headquarters), Mount Gambier, Narracoorte (sic), Kingston; Guichen Bay, McDonnell Bay and Border Town. | Inspector Hunt suggests that uniform books and forms be adopted by Police. | |
| 28 | Item | 13 Jan 1867 - 09 Jan 1871 | File 350/1867 (and 8 other files) | Mr J. Sells, Mt. Fytton (now Fitton) nr Yudanamatana (now Yudnamutana) : Suggesting the removal of the Mt Freeling police to Mt Fytton and police reports thereon. | Other files relate to proposed station at Mt Freeling/Lake Hope and building of the new Police Station at Mt Freeling. | Letter dated 11/5/1868 in 650/1868 mentions the Aboriginal travelling route to "the Ochre" at Parallana. 879/1869 mentions the need to keep Afghan camel drivers "in awe". | |
| 28 | Item | 03 Jan 1867 - 06 Apr 1867 | File 681/1867 | Sergeant Woodcock, Gawler Police Station: P.C. Leahey intoxicated on duty, fined ten shillings. | |||
| 28 | Item | - | 814/1867 | ||||
| 28 | 01 Jan 1867 - 01 Jan 1867 | Files 246/1867 to 1140/1867 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 28 | Item | 09 Mar 1867 - 09 Mar 1867 | File 674/1867 | Corporal J. Morton, Lake Hope Police Station: Police required to vacate small hut on loan from Messrs. Dean and Hack. Seeking provision of a Police building there. | |||
| 29 | Item | 12 Jul 1867 - 15 Jul 1867 | File 1159/1867 | P.C. William Freeman, Port Adelaide Police Station: Stating assault on him by P.C. Leahy whilst under the influence of liquor. | |||
| 29 | Item | - | File 1156/1867 | ||||
| 29 | Item | 28 Sep 1867 - 03 Apr 1868 | File 1551/1867 | Escaped offenders coming to Victoria from any of the Australian Colonies. Imperial Act 6 & 7 Vic. C. 34. | Includes a number of other files, including CSO1694/1867 | ||
| 29 | Item | - | File 1621/1867 | ||||
| 29 | Item | - | File 1152 of 1867 | ||||
| 29 | Item | 04 Aug 1866 - 07 Oct 1867 | File 1543/1867 | Death of Corporal William Buttrose and question of compensation to his widow and family. | |||
| 29 | Item | - | File 8/1868 | ||||
| 29 | Item | 16 Dec 1867 - 19 Dec 1867 | File 1867/1867 | J.W. Allison, Adelaide: Complaining of insulting language to him by Lance Corporal McCaffrey "bloody crawler, I will wring the damn nose off your face". | |||
| 29 | Item | 01 Dec 1867 - 01 Jan 1868 | File 1817/1867 (file missing as at 16/10/2015) | P.T. Gregory, Blinman Police Station: Murder of a native Port Lincoln Peter by natives. Reporting arrest and escape of natives etc. | |||
| 29 | Item | - | File 7/1868 (includes many other related files) | ||||
| 29 | 01 Jan 1867 - 01 Jan 1868 | Files 1146/1867 to 8/1868 | NE GRG/MRG Unit | ||||
| 29 | Item | 04 Nov 1867 - 14 Dec 1867 | File1699/1867 | Accidental injury to widow Rebecca Appleby by Police Trooper Farrell's horse during visit of H.R.H. Prince Albert. | |||
| 29 | Item | - | File 1373/1867 | ||||
| 30 | Item | - | File 473/1868 | Report of Fenian meetings at Farrell's Flat discounted | |||
| 30 | Item | 23 Feb 1868 - 28 Feb 1868 | File 289/1868 | William Gregory PT, Blinman Police Station: Enumerating circumstances by which "Mary Ann", a native witness in the case of Thomas Allen, committed for rape, came to escape. | |||
| 30 | Item | 14 Mar 1868 - 10 Nov 1868 | File 649/1868 | William Gregory PT, Blinman Police Station: Report on premises occupied by Police at Blinman. Includes photograph of old station buildings. | Includes PCO 835/1868 relating to tender from Inspector Read for new building. | ||
| 30 | Item | 30 Mar 1868 - 30 Mar 1868 | File 435/1868 | Chief Inspector | Objecting to use of Mt. Pleasant Police Station rooms as an office by the Clerk of the Court | ||
| 30 | Item | 27 Apr 1868 - 06 May 1868 | File 577/1868 | Edward John Peake, Coroner, Clarendon: Expressing his satisfaction with the conduct of Trooper F. Drought with regard to the enquiry into the cause of a fire which destroyed Minchin's place. |