1869.

VICTORIA.

SIXTH REPORT

OF

THE CENTRAL BOARD

APPOINTED TO WATCH OVER THE INTERESTS

OF THE ABORIGI) ES IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY IIIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.

I$ authority :

JOHN FERRES, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE. No. 47.

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SIR, The Central Board appointed to watch over the interests of the Aborigines have the honor to Report on the condition of the Aborigines as follows :— CORANDERRK. The area originally reserved for the Aborigines at this station was 2,300 acres, but a further reservation was made subsequently, and the total area now set apart is about 4,850 acres. The number of blacks on the station during the year ending 31st July, 1866, was, on an average, 104; and the average daily attendance was ninety-nine The attendance during the following year was 'co, and the average daily attendance was ninety-seven. For the year ending 3Ist -July, 1868, the attendance was seventy-six, and the average daily- attendance seventy-four. During the period from the ist August, 1865, to the 3 ist July, 1868, there have been sixteen deaths on this station and six births, and six marriages.. On the whole the health of the Aborigines has been good. In May, 1867, a low fever was prevalent, and five of the blacks died of the disease. The other deaths were from inflammation of the lungs, the effects of over indulgence in spirituous liquors, St. Vitus' dance, old age, and consumption. The quantity of ground cultivated is seventy acres. There are fifteen acres of wheat, about twenty-eight acres of oats, and potatoes will be sown in a paddock about twenty acres in extent, and there is one acre planted with fruit trees. The yield from the potato crop last year was about forty tons , and the value of the oats and wheat grown last season was about £ ioo.. -The, stock at present on the station consists of eighteen.loullocks, forty-eight cows, thirty-eight steers, thirty-two heifers, two bulls, twenty-one pigs, one mare, and three fillies, belonging to the Government ; and eight, mares, four horses, fourteen fillies, and seven colts, belonging-to the Aborigines. The annual value of the) production of this station, for. the year ending 3 ist July, 1868, was £480; and was made up of the following items:— ' Potatoes ... ... £200 Oats ••• ••• 6o Wheat ... •.• 40 Straw and Hay ••• ••• 6o Fruit ... ••• zo Rugs and Baskets ... I 00 During the year ended 31st July, 1866, the Aborigines grubbed thirty acres of land and erected one mile 'of good three-rail fencing. They built a good slab barn, and erected four huts for dwellings. During the same period the number of huts regularly inhabited by married couples on the station was fifteen. Nearly all the huts are kept very tidy by the women, who also employ them- selves in making baskets for sale. During the next year only seven acres of grdund were grubbed; owing to the fever breaking out just at the time when such work should have been done: One thousand, posts and rails were laid down to enclose a new paddock, but the fever stopped this work also. Five new huts were alinost completed. Th6 next year, ending 3 ist July, the work done on the station was as follows :—A new paddock of ten acres was made, and was nearly all sown with wheat. One new but was built, and the old ones were repaired and improved, and gardens were made to each hut. Fruit trees were planted in one acre of rand. Posts and rails were split for a new paddock of thirty-four acres, and for two new stockyards and a pig paddock. 4

There are at present at Coranderrk thirty-eight children—twenty males and eighteen females. Twenty-two of the children are blacks, and sixteen are half-castes. Six blacks and one half-caste are under five years old ; seven blacks and four half- castes are above five years and under ten years old ; eight blacks and seven half-castes are above ten years and under fifteen years old ; and one black and four half-castes are above fifteen years and under seventeen years old. The boys and girls have made fair progress in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Eight of the boys and eight of the girls are very good scholars, and all the others attending the school can now read in the Second Book, and some of them can write pretty well. Seven of the eldest boys milk the cows and do all the work in the garden, and also some work on the farm. The girls above seven years of age are taught sewing and all kinds of house- work, and three or four of them are very good servants. The general condition of this station, the culture which has brought many of the black children and half-castes to a state of education not inferior to that observed amongst Europeans of the same age in Common Schools, the system of regular industry introduced and adopted amongst the adults, and the material results, show that the labors of the Central Board and its officers have been beneficial in a high degree. The results, indeed, have far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of those amongst the members of the Board who have had the largest experience of the Aboriginal character. It is right to say that, up to the present time, this, the most prosperous Aboriginal station in Victoria, or perhaps in Australia, has been managed exclusively by the Board and its officers, and is not indebted for its success to any extraneous assistance. LAKE HINDMARSH. The ground reserved for the Aborigines at this place contains 1,897 acres, and is all fenced in. Three acres are under cultivation for the purpose of growing hay for the horses, and two acres are laid out in gardens, of which one acre belongs to the blacks and the other to missionaries. The produce of these gardens is consumed on the station. The stock on the station consists of 1,225 sheep, three horses, six working bullocks, five cows, and seven young cattle. During the past year 4.50 sheep and one heifer have been killed and consumed on the station. . The average daily attendance of the Aborigines during the paSt three years, ending 31st July last, has been as follows :—During the first year, forty-two ; the - second, forty-three ; and during the past year, fifty-seven. During the same period there have been twenty-one deaths reported. There are five men, four boys, nine women, and one girl, who can read pretty well ; and fourteen men, two boys, five women, and four girls, who are more or less advanced in spelling-books. Five men, three boys, six women, and one girl, can write fairly, and fourteen men, three boys, eight women, and four girls, are learning to wiite. The total number of buildings now on this station is twenty-six. Of these, fifteen are dwelling-houses, and there are besides four bark huts Eight of the houses are permanently inhabited, and seven are unfinished There are also a chapel, hospital, store, kitchen, &c. The number of blacks living in the houses and huts is thirty-seven. The other blacks live in the camp, their houses not being finished, and some have no houses. With one or two exceptions, the houses are kept clean. One of the houses is built of stone ; the others are substantial log huts floored with boards, and they have doors and glass windows, and are plastered inside with lime. None of the Aborigines who live on the station indulge in intoxicating drink. Drink is sometimes brought to the station by strange blacks, but not often. LAKE TYERS. The area reserved at Lake Tyers for the Aborigines is 2,000 acres. The quantity of ground fenced in is about six acres, three of which are under cultivation. The kinds of produce are potatoes, cabbages, carrots, &c., and they are consumed on the station. 5 There is no stock on the station belonging to the Government. The number of Aborigines on this station during the last three years has been as follows :—During the year ending 3 ist July, 1866, the average daily attendance was twenty-one ; during the year ending 3ist July, 1867, twenty-two ; and during the year ending 3i st July, 1868, twenty-three. The number of deaths at this station during the last three years is, according to the reports, eleven. There have been two births. The number of adult males who can read and write is as follows :—One young man can read and write pretty well, and six can read and write a little. One boy can read and write well, and nine, who have settled on the station during the last six months, are making good progress in reading and writing. Four girls can read tolerably well, and one is beginning to read. There are seven buildings now on the station. One is constantly occupied by one young man and four boys. The other buildings are—the school, the store, missionary's house, and a large bark but unfinished. Whenever the blacks get a chance they procure intoxicating drinks There are some of the blacks, however, who can go to the townships without giving way to temptation. LAKE WELLINGTON. The area reserved for the Aborigines at Lake Wellington is 2,356 acres. The quantity of land fenced in is zoo acres, and about four or five acres are cultivated. The produce of this ground was about nine tons of potatoes, which were all used on the station. There are also several acres of garden land fenced in and worked by those blacks who have settled down on the station permanently. There are thirty-nine head of cattle belonging to the Government, of which twelve are milch cows. The milk and butter are used on the station. The number of Aborigines on the station during the three years ending 31st July last was as under :—The average daily attendance was forty-two for the year ending 31st July, 1866 ; fifty-two for the year ending 31st July, 1867 ; and sixty-nine for the year ending 31st July, 1868. The number of adult males who can read and write a little is five. Six adult females can read and write. The number of male children who can read and write pretty well is seven. Six female children are as far advanced as the males. There are also a few more boys who have commenced their lessons. One of the adult females has a very good education, and is employed by a • missionary as a salaried teacher for the school. The health of the blacks at this station has been very good. The number of deaths that have occurred during the three years ending 31st July last was seventeen, and the number of births four. There have been four marriages on the station during the same period. There are nineteen buildings now on the station. The houses are continually inhabited by the Aborigines, and, with a few excep- tions, are clean and well kept. Two houses and a large school-house have been erected during the past year. During the previous year two houses were built by the blacks, and one hun- dred and sixty acres of ground were fenced in. There are still some amongst the Aborigines who indulge in intoxicating drinks ; but on the whole drinking has decreased very much, and it happens now only very seldom with those few. The police do their best to prevent the Aborigines from getting intoxicating drinks LAKE CONDAH. A station for the Aborigines who were formerly at the reserve at Framlingham, has been formed at Lake Condah. Upwards of seventy blacks have settled on the reserve, which contains 2,043 acres 1 rood, and they have commenced to clear some of the land. Fourteen acres have been cleared and fenced in. 6

The stock on the station consists of .seven bullocks, one bull, four cows, three steers, one yearling heifer, three calves, and two hundred and twenty sheep. The buildings on ;he station are but temporary structures. They consist of four huts, in which a few of the blacks reside. The remainder of the blacks live in mia-mias. There is a store-house and a missionary's slab hut. The correspondent reports that the greater number of the blacks will drink to intoxication whenever they can get the opportunity. The police invariably exert themselves in a praiseworthy manner to prevent the traffic in intoxicating liquors ; but it is not easy to match the cunning of the sordid dealers in poisonous drinks, who, for the sake of the gain of a few pence, will at any moment unscrupulously imperil the life of any poor black who comes in their way ; and even when they are caught in the act it is not easy to bring them to punishment.

ECHUCA. The blacks at Echuca number sixty-eight, consisting of forty-four males and twenty-four females. The deaths during the year 1868 were six—four males and two females. The stores supplied by the Central Board are given, as a rule, only to the aged, infirm, and sickly blacks, thereby encouraging, and in a measure compelling, the healthy ones to provide a subsistence for themselves. During many months the blacks almost entirely maintain themselves by catching fish, hunting native game, &c.; others obtain employment on stations, and a few make good earnings by stripping bark. Many of the blacks of both sexes still indulge in intoxicating drinks, but they find it difficult to obtain liquors now. CARR'S PLAINS. The Aborigines at this place number twenty-nine, consisting of eleven men, nine women, one boy, one girl, and seven children. They have built themselves three comfortable huts, in which they live. They hunt and fish very little. Some of the blacks spend most of their earnings in drink

TOWANENNIE. The Aborigines in this locality are under the charge of Mr. James Finley. There are seventeen blacks at this place, and they consist of seven men, seven women, one half-caste boy sixteen years old, and one half-caste girl, and a child three years Old. Mr. Finley reports that the blacks hunt very little now. He says that they have no means of getting drink in the locality of his station.

WAL3YEERI HORSHAM. The Aborigines in this locality are under the charge of the honorary corres- pondent, Mr. Charles Wilson, and Mr. Alexander Wilson, of Vectis. The number of Aborigines in this locality is eighteen—nine men, six women, one half-caste girl, and two Aboriginal children. Mr. Wilson, in August, 1868, stated that the blacks still indulge in intoxicating drinks, which they purchase themselves or get from others with the moneys they earn by working on the station. Mr. Wilson remarks that two Aboriginals, "Sandy" and "Fanny," and two children, have resided in a but on his station for about three years, and that they live as respectably as many white people. " Sandy" is generally employed on the station at about ios. per week. He expends a good part of his money in clothing, &c., for his family. CARNGHAM. The Aborigines in this locality are under •the charge of Mr. Andrew Porteous, of Prettytower, Stockyard Hill. They number forty-two and consist of twenty-four men and eighteen women. Mr. Porteous reports that the blacks still indulge in intoxicating drinks when- ever they can get them. REIDSDALE, NEAR T.ARRA.WINGEB. Mr. Curtis A. Reid is the honorary correspondent in this locality, and the

number of Aborigines under his care is thirty-three—eleven males, fifteen , females, and seven children, the greater number of the latter being half-castes. • In a report dated gth September, 1868, he writes :— Four of the children under my care, who have arrived at a sufficient age, attend school daily at Tarrawingee, and the Church of England Sunday School at the same place every Sunday. They are progressing rapidly and show great quickness and aptitude in learning. I have one lad employed on the station to whom I pay wages. He is a very useful servant and does not touch intoxicating drinks, but uses his money to provide himself with clothes and other necessaries. I also employ two half-caste girls, who are very excellent servants. The rising generation seem to be accommodating themselves to the habits and customs of civilized life. The original stock of Aborigines is rapidly disappearing, and has decreased fully one-half within the last seven years.

WARRNAMBOOL. The Aborigine§ in the vicinity of Warrnambool are under the charge of Mr. Francis Tozei, of Wangoon, and Mr. H. B. Lane, P.M. They number twenty-six—nineteen men and seven women. Mr. Tozer reports that on the whole the conduct of the blacks is very good, and that only a few of them indulge in intoxicating liquors. There is a large reserve at Framlingham, on which the Aborigines were located from September, 1865, to the isth November, 1867. Subsequently they removed to the reserve at Lake Condah, that locality having been recommended as a more suitable place. At Framlingham the Aborigines had the services of a master and matron ; and stores to the value of £360 were sent to them during the year 1866. The attempt to form a station at this place was, however, not very successful, though every exertion was used by the Central Board to ensure practical and useful results. Some of the Aborigines remained in the vicinity of the old station at Fram- lingham, and refused altogether to live at Lake Condah, and in order to protect them and to provide for their wants, Mr. Francis Tozer, who resided near the place, was appointed an honorary correspondent, and stores and clothing for the blacks were sent to him A master and matron have been employed to teach such of the blacks at Framlingham as choose to remain there, and a depot for stores will be formed. It is not expected that any very useful results will follow on this arrangement. The object of the Central Board is to prevent destitution and suffering amongst those who persist in remaining at Framlingham, and to afford the means of improvement to such as are willing to attend the school, which will be conducted by the master and matron ; but it is to Lake Condah and not Framlingham that we must look for such results as have rewarded the exertions of the Board at Coranderrk. Mr. Green, the Inspector of Stations, is now at Lake Condah, and it is hoped he will introduce order and good management, and lay the basis of a scheme which will be productive of lasting benefit to the blacks. ULUPNA, MURRAY RIVER. Mr. James Rutherford has charge of the Aborigines at this station. There are about forty grown-up blacks at Ulupna, and about twelve children. One of the young men, " Freddy," is being educated, and he is able to read and write a little.

The foregoing brief sketch of the condition of the principal Aboriginal stations throughout the colony is sufficient to show that the interests of this people are not neglected ; and the Central Board may point with some gratification to the picture presented at the present time when contrasted with that which, prior to the appoint- ment of the Board, was a scandal and a disgrace to the colony. Formerly, wars inter se, secret murders, the complete abandonment of every restraint, and the open indulgence by the Aborigines in intoxicating liquors, and the crimes consequent thereon, were the constant themes of writers for the press. Now, 8 a war inter se is never heard of ; tribes formerly hostile to each other are living amicably on the stations • their children assemble every morning in the same school- house for instruction ; the adults labor side by side in the same field ; the traffic in intoxicating liquors, if not wholly stopped, has been greatly reduced, and the comfort, progress, and active industry apparent at such stations as Coranderrk, are surely proofs sufficient to convince even the ignorant and the unreflecting that the liberality of Parlia- ment in providing funds for subsidising the stations is not misplaced. That the Central Board could in nine years effect a complete revolution in the habits and modes' of life of the Aborigines (contaminated as they have been by contact with the lowest class of whites—some seeking to rob them of their earnings, others striving for their own selfish ends to get the control of them) was not to be expected ; but enough has been done to prove that the blacks can be made to occupy a position neither mean nor despicable—for they can be taught to labor and to expend their earnings judiciously. It is but just and right for the Central Board to record their appreciation of the valuable assistance rendered by the several honorary correspondents throughout the colony. Their gratuitous services have been exceedingly beneficial to the Aborigines. The. Central Board have urged again and again that an Act should be passed providing for the management and protection of the Aborigines ; and they now learn with satisfaction that the Honorable J. J. Casey, the Minister of Justice, • has prepared a Bill and is about to introduce it to Parliament. Possessed of such powers as they have sought, it will be easy for the Central Board to train and educate black and half-caste children in such a way as to make them useful members of society. Powerless as the Board are at present, they can only exert themselves with benefit to the blacks up to a certain point. As soon as a young man or a young woman arrives at the age of fifteen or sixteen their plans fail, for the children can, if they are so minded, leave the stations, and attach themselves to publicans and depraved characters, who are ever on the watch to inveigle them from their homes. As regards the adults, the Board is entirely at the mercy of interested persons who seek to get a profit by buying the clothes supplied by the Board or obtaining the clothes and blankets in exchange for intoxicating liquors. Protected by a just law, there is hope that this people may yet be preserved from the harsher miseries which in all countries have afflicted aborigines whose lands have been taken by those against whose power they could offer no effectual resistance; and the very helplessness of the Australian blacks, their patience under wrong, their mildness, and their loyalty when their faith has been relied on—not in Victoria only, but in all parts of Australia—should move our wealthy State to deal with them more than generously—more than kindly. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient and humble servant, JAMES MACBAIN, President. His Excellency The Honorable Sir John Henry T. Manners Sutton, K.C.B., Governor-General, &c., &c. Office of the Central Board, Melbourne, loth June, i 8 6 9. 9

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX I,

MR. GREEN'S REPORTS.

THE WESTERN AND NORTH-WESTERN DISTRICTS. SIR, Coranderrk, 3oth November, 1868. I have the honor to lay before you my report on the con'dition, &c., of the Aborigines in the Western and North-Western districts, and also my note-book, with all the particulars I have been able to collect during my tour of inspection in these districts. 1st. The general health of the Aborigines is good. I did not see nor hear of more than a very few cases of sickness, and the few I saw, the sick were well attended to, and supplied with medical comforts. I believe that nearly all the most diseased (that is, those with venereal disease) have been cured or are now dead ; so that I can say with safety that they are now much more healthy than they were a few years ago— in their appearance they look much better. and. There is a decrease of the number in the W. N. W., but not so great as I was led to believe from the statements of the honorary correspondents and others during my journey. The general statements were, that they were dying out fast, and that in a few years they would be extinct. But on comparing the number of those whose names I have collected during this tour with the number given in the Central Board's report to Parliament in 1868, I find that the decrease is not so great ; and now that I am better acquainted with the country and the Aborigines, I have reason to believe that the number given in that report is not quite correct—that is, the number said to belong to Warrnambool and Mortlake, and also those belonging to Balmoral, Glenelg, and Mount Talbot. I now know all the Aborigines personally belonging to the two first-named places, and they, as a rule, consider themselves all one tribe, so that a person taking the names at Warrnambool from the Aborigines would get a number of those that would be got by another at Mortlake. And the same may be said of those belonging to Balmoral, Glenelg, and Mount Talbot. If I am correct in this view, the decrease would be but small. There are forty-six children now living that have been born since the list of names that that report was compiled from were collected. This of course will show that the mortality amongst them, the adults, has been great, but it will also show that the general health of the Aborigines is better than it was before that time. You will also see that the number now living that were born during the five years previous to the last five years is only thirty-one, and the five years previous again to that the number is only twenty-three, and fourteen of the twenty-three are half-castes ; whereas during either of the first-named five years the half-castes only number eleven. These facts I consider sufficient proof that the Aborigines are both physically and morally improved within the last ten years, especially within the last five. I therefore cannot see any reason to conclude that they will in a few years become extinct. 3rd. The honorary correspondents differ very much in their views on the sufficiency of stores, &C., Supplies, &c. supplied. Some think that more ought to be granted ; others, that they are ample for all the requirements of the Aborigines, and some think they would be better without any, as they sell them for drink. My own opinion is that the quantity is quite sufficient, and that they have on the whole been a great benefit to them. Yet in some cases, there can be no doubt, some of them have sold them for drink, and of course in such cases they would have been better without them at that time. But I think an improvement could be made on the present system of distribution—namely, to have fewer depots—for I have no doubt many of the worst disposed of them go to several of the depots, and get a blanket, &c., at each if possible ; but if the distance between the depOts was greater they would not be able to do that so easily. 4th. All the honorary correspondents informed me that they were authorized to call medical aid to Medical attend- the Aborigines when required, and that they did so in all bad cases. Some of them complain that they do awe' 8Le” &c. not get medicines supplied to them for the use of the Aborigines. My own opinion is that in the greater number of cases of sickness among the Aborigines, that they, while lying in the open mia-mia, are much better without much of the medicines that are often prescribed. For instance, if one be supplied with several doses of calomel for a few days, if he feels himself hot he will put every thing off and will go and lie on the cold ground ; so I think all the medicine that is required is some simple aperients and liniments, , and nourishing food. 5th. I spoke to about seventy Aborigines on the subject of again forming an establishment at Fram- Frarellughtun reserve, &C. lingham, and about sixty of them told me that they would like to settle there and get a home for themselves. I also asked them if they would go to Lake Condah, but they all said that they would not go. Some of them said that they liked the place but not the Aborigines, others said that they did not like Mr. Francis. I also spoke to some of the honorary correspondents on the subject, and to others, and the general opinion was that an establishment ought to be formed at Framlingham, and many of the Aborigines would settle on it, but that they would not go to Lake Condah. My own opinion is, if one is not formed there, all the Aborigines who are willing or wishing to settle could very soon be prevailed upon to go to Lake Condah, which is in my opinion by far the best place, and most healthy, for an establishment. But seeing that there are so many of them wishing to settle there, and also that there are but few children among them, not many buildings would be required. No. 47, a. 10

If the Central Board could get a good manager and matron for an establishment, I think the Board would do well to form one. All that would be required is a team of bullocks, a few cows, farm

implements, a house, and store. , Lake Condah 6th. The Central Board should lime no time' in taking 'this station (Lake Condah) wholly into their station, &c. own hand, and at once commence to build a school and bed-rooms, a house for the manager, and store. There can be no doubt this is as good a place as any that could be got in the colony : much of the land is first-class, the climate is good, and in no part of the colony are there so many Aborigines belonging, I might say, to one tribe. There are thirty-six children belonging to this place ; and there are fifteen other children, four at Hamilton, and eleven at Sandford, &c. These can all be brought to this station at once. I do not think that Mr. Francis is capable of managing this station, and this is the opinion of all in the neighborhood I spoke to on the subject. He might do as teacher. I have been informed that he is a good teacher. The Board will have to be very careful in the selection of a manager, for if a proper one is not got at first, it will be a great drawback to the station. I believe this station could be made self-supporting in two or three years. About +oo acres of the reserve is fine agricultural land, and nearly all the rest is very good far grazing sheep or cattle. Sheep-farming and agriculture combined would, I think, be the best thing to pay. Many of the Aborigines are well acquainted with the management of sheep, and I have been , informed , by some of the settlers that they nearly all are good workmen. Ins ten station, 7th. I believe that if this station was enlarged to four times its present size, it could be made to support Wimmera. all the Aborigines in the Wimmera district. I am now of the opinion that wheat could be grown for flour if there were a sufficient number of sheep kept to manure the ground every year, and the wool, of the sheep (say 4,000) would be. sufficient `to' purchase sugar, tea, clothes, &,c. I would therefore recommend that the reserve be enlarged to four times its present size ; also, that all the stores for the Aborigines in the Wiminera district be sent to this station, and not any longer to any of the honorary correspondents ; also, that. Mr. Hartmann be instructed , to try and collect all the children as far up as Carr's Plains. If Mr. Hartmann cannot get the 'children at Carr's Plains, the Central Board should take them to Coranderrk. You will see in nay note-book, page 74, that some of them were willing to come with me to this place. I would also recommend that stores be only sent to Mr. Officer's, Mount Talbot ; Mr. Wettenhall's, Carr's Plains ; and to Mr. Porteous's, Carngham ; all the other stores for the Aborigines should be sent to the three stations referred to, namely, Framlingham, Lake Condah, and the Mission station, Wimmera. If the Central Board adopt this plan, it will be a great saving to the State, and. I am sure will be of more real .benefit to the Aborigines themselves. They would all very soon make to one or another of the stations, when they found that they could not get supplies elsewhere. In conclusion, I beg to say that there can be no doubt the Aborigines have benefited much under the present system of distribution of stores ; but had the stations been formed at the time Coranderrk was, I have no doubt it would have been much better ; but better late than never. There should be only the three formed in the districts I have just visited, for I believe, to form more, it would do more harm than good : for many ofthe Aborigines would just keep walking from one to the other, just as their fancy moved them. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, , R. B. Smyth, Esq., Secretary C. B. A. JOHN GREEN.

LAKE WELLINGTON AND LAKE TYERS STATIONS. SIR, Coranderrk, 29th January, 1869. I have the honor to lay before you my report on the condition of the Aborigines in Gippsland. I arrived at Lake Wellington station on the 3oth December, and left on the 5th instant. When I arrived, Mr. Hagenauer was in bed, sick ; I found twenty-nine Aborigines—viz., seventeen children, and twelve adults—on the station. The children and nearly all the adults were clean and well dressed, and all appeared in good health and happy. There , is no doubt the condition of the Aborigines has been much improved in this part since the formation of this station. All the adults who usually frequent this station were, at the time of my visit, away reaping on the neighboring stations, and Mr. Hagenauer informed me that they, as a rule, took good care of their money ; he says that very few of them spend it on drink as they formerly did, and I was told the same by many of the settlers and farmers in the neighborhood. There are seven very good huts, built, Mr. Hagenauer informed me, by the natives themselves ; only four of them were inhabited, but these were very tidy and clean. There is a fine large school-room, with five bed-rooms and one sitting-room attached, similar to the school and bed-rooms at Coranderrk. The school-room is also used for a dining-room for the children. One of the bed-rooms and the sitting-room is occupied by Bessy Flower and her husband, and two of the bed-rooms are occupied by twelve of the children ; all was clean, and everything appeared in good order. Cultivation. There is, very little cultivation, the whole not more than six acres, including all the little gardens attached to the huts. The potato crop appears fair considering the very dry season that has been. , The reserve. The reserve, as a whole, is very poor soil, and there' is hut little of the land fit for anything but grazing purposes ; but, by care, I think potatoes, and even wheat, could be grown to supply , all on the station. The men, &c. Mr. Hagenauer informed me that he could not get the men to do any work nor remain on the station unless he paid them for so doing ; he has even to pay a man to milk the cows. I consider this is a very bad method, to pay them for working on their own station, except it was from the produce raised on the station by their own labor. Children, &c. The most of the children can read and write a little; at present they are taught by Bessy Flower, and she appears well fitted for the work ; she looks after their cooking, &c., &c. 11.

The stores on hand were in good condition, and Mr. Hagenauer informed me that the supply was supplies. sufficient for all the requirements of the Aborigines frequenting the station. The cattle, forty-one, the property of the Central Board, are in good condition, and Mr. Hagenauer cattle. informed me that he would have sufficient to enable him to kill for beef for the use of the station in the course of one year. I arrived at Lake Tyers on the 7th instant, and left on the I Ith. Lake Tyers. There were sixty Aborigines on the station, but I must say that, with very few exceptions, they were all very dirty and wild-looking. Nearly all the children were running about without any clothes, and the women were nearly all lying sleeping in their mia-mias among a lot of dirty and diseased-looking dogs, and yet, notwithstanding all that, they all appeared very healthy and even happy. There is but one but finished, and two in course of erection ; this but was built, Mr. Bulmer informed Huta, aln• me, by one of the single men ; he, with two other men and a few boys, lives in it • they keep it pretty clean. The whole that is fenced in and cultivated does not exceed two acres ; the crop, potatoes and cultivation. cabbages, is fair. The soil is poor as a whole, but there is some very good land on the reserve, and is very suitable for growing potatoes. The young men are a strong lot of healthy-looking fellows, but Mr. Bulmer informed me that he cannot get them to work unless he pays them, and this he cannot do owing to the smallness of his salary. There are twenty children on the station ; a few of them can read and write a little. Mr. Bulmer Children. thinks that he will succeed in inducing their parents to leave them on the station, and not take them away as they formerly did, and he is very anxious to get a house erected for them; I think, if he succeeds in keeping them on the station, that the Central Board should grant £100 to build a school and bed-rooms. The stores, Mr. Bulmer informed me, have all been distributed some time ago and he complains that supplies. more are not supplied; but I consider that those young able men should get none unless they work on the station; and if they would grow plenty of potatoes, the quantity of flour supplied by the Board would be quite sufficient. You will see by the list of names in my note-book that there is a decrease of the total number in Gippsland ; still the decrease is not so great as 'I' expected from reports I have heard. You will see that a large percentage of the number of Aborigines are children, and those who are adults are mostly young, and the most part of them appear pretty healthy. In conclusion, I beg to say that, in my opinion, the Aborigines in Gippsland are very well provided and cared'for, and I can see no reason why they should become so soon extinct as many think ; but I think it is a great pity that they cannot be induced to work on their own stations, for I consider that it is the only thing that will elevate them and get them to take an interest in their own homes. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. Brough Smyth, Esq., Secretary C. B. A. JOHN GREEN.

RIVER MURRAY. Sm, Coranderrk, April, 1869. I have the honor to report to the Central Board on the condition of the Aborigines, &c., receiving Government supplies at the stations of the various honorary correspondenth on the Murray River. 1st. I have not been able to get the names, &c., of all the Aborigines, owing to not being able to see any of the Aborigines nor the honorary correspondents, viz., those belonging to Gunbower and Boort-boort, and there might be a few more on the Lower Murray, near Wentworth ; but Mr. Wm. Jamieson, of Mildura, has kindly promised to ascertain if there are any more in that quarter and to forward their names to me. znd. All the honorary correspondents and others I spoke with are nearly all of the opinion that the health of the Aborigines, as a whole, is now much better than it was some years ago. And I must say that they appear more healthy than they did on my former visit. And they (the honorary correspondents) attribute their improved state of health to the supplies issued to them, and 'especially to the supply of blankets and other clothes. 3rd. According to the statements of the honorary correspondents and others, there is still much drunkenness among, them, and it appears from their statements that they have no difficulty in procUring drink, there being so many shanties and public-houSes now in every part of the country, at which they can always procure drink by some means. 4th. All the honorary correspondents agree that something ought to be done to rescue the children from growing up in ignorance, and especially the girls, to keep them from a life of infamy. 5th. There is a good deal of difference of opinion among the honorary correspondents and others of the settlers about the supply of stores, &c. and I may say a good deal of jealousy also. Some say the supply is ample, and some say that they should get more, and that they should be sent to every station on the Murray. A. few think that the supplies are sent to too many places, and that none of the Aborigines should get any except the old, infirm, and the children. With these few I agree, for the following reasons :- When there are only thirty or forty miles between the depOts many of the Lorigines will go to two, and, in some cases, even to three and four of the depOts, and get blankets at each, and by this means they have one or more to sell ; and because a great proportion of them (the Aborigines) are strong, able-bodied men and women, able to work, and do work, on the stations for wages and rations. As for instance those at Mr. Jamieson's of Mildura. At his station they get no Government stores, and he informs me that they all work sufficiently to pay for their food ; also, that he has paid them £158 18s. as wages during the past twelve months. If this is done on one station, I see no reason why it cannot be done at others. It is evident that they are more or less employed on all the stations on the Murray. One cause of jealousy about the stores is owing to some of the settlers wishing to have some of the Aborigines to work on the station ; but this they will •not do in some cases, because there is no Government stores that they can get if they are inclined to take a spell for a week or two, as they do where the supplies are. 12

6th. All the honorary correspondents, so far as I had any means of ascertaining, seem to pay every attention to the interests of the Aborigines, and are recognized as protectors of the Aborigines in the- neighborhood in which they reside, both by the Aborigines and others. 7th. There is apparently a decrease of thirty-six during the past six years ; that is to say, if I am right in the estimate of the number of those belonging to Gunbower and Boort-boort, whose names I could not get. 8th. All the honorary correspondents agree that the Aborigines earn a deal of money, and that they are robbed of their money by shanty and public-house keepers. They think that some stronger measures should be adopted to prevent this robbery and selling of drink to the Aborigines. 9th. I would recommend that two stations be formed for the Aborigines in the valley of the Murray, where all the supplies should be sent in the first place ; then some of them could be sent to the furthest off depots. . One should be formed near Ulupna, and the other near Kulkyne. I consider these two would be sufficient for all the requirements of the Aborigines on the Murray. I believe they could be formed and kept for less money than it now costs for the supplies sent to the various depots, and I am sure that the Aborigines as a whole would derive more real benefit from them. The managers would be a great check on the publicans and shanty keepers to keep them from selling drink to and robbing the Aborigines as they do at present. It would soon be seen that the Aborigines could make as much money as would keep themselves. Even now, I believe, they make as much as would keep them, if they knew how to manage it. I would also recommend that the inspector visit every part of the colony at least once every year— not that there is any great necessity to do so—to look after the distribution of the stores ; but his doing so would be a great check to the selling of drink to the Aborigines as is done at present. Referring to the supplies sent to Wyuna and the condition of the Aborigines there, I found no Wyuna. Aborigines on the station. But, after due enquiry, I see no reason to conclude that the stores sent there are less in proportion to the number of Aborigines who frequent that station than at the other depOts. You will see by the list of names, &c. of those who come here for supplies that there are only few of them that could be called too old to work, and there is no difficulty for them to procure work in the neighborhood. I saw fourteen of those belonging to this station at work at the company's vineyard, within two miles of this station, and the manager informed me that he was glad to get them to work and to pay them fair wages and their food. Mr. Mackenzie thinks that there will be no difficulty to get four of the children removed crone here to Coranderrk, as they have no parents, and he promised to send me notice when they came to his station. Mr. Bews, acting honorary correspondent at Echuca, requested me to inform the Central Board to Echuca. send him a letter of instructions that he might know what duties he is expected to perform. Mr. Wm. Jamieson wished me to inform the Central Board that he would act as honorary corres- Mildura. pondent in place of his brother, who has gone home to Europe, but that his brother gave him orders before he left that he was to feed all the Aborigines who came to his station from the stores of the station. So all that is required for this station is blankets and some clothing. I enclose a list of the quantity required. I enclose my note-book, in which you will find a list of the names, &c., of the Aborigines frequenting the various depOts on the Murray River. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. Brough Smyth, Esq., Secretary, C. B. A. JOHN GREEN.

GEELONG. Mr. Green reports that there are only two Aborigines of this tribe now alive, and they drink very hard. They are well supplied with food. He states that he saw seven blacks at this place, and they all promised to go to the station at Coranderrk.

BIRREGURRA. There are eighteen blacks belonging to this tribe, consisting of eleven males and seven females, including three half-castes and one child. Mr. Green states that he did not see any of the Aborigines at Birregurra, as they were away in the bush killing rabbits. A married couple is staying with a Mr. Murray of Colac, and they earn fifteen shillings a week. Mr. Alexander Dennis, who takes charge of the blacks here, is in favor of the present system of distributing stores to them, and states that whenever any of them are sick the doctor always attends them.

CAMPERDO WN. There are eighteen Aborigines belonging to this tribe—eleven males and seven females. Mr. Green reports that he saw only eight of them, and that they do not get any rations or clothing from the Govern- ment. He says that Mr. Ferguson, who has charge of the Aborigines here, states that they do not want rations—that when they got them they sold them to the white people. The blacks will not go to the station at Lake Condah, but Mr. Green thinks they would go to Pram- lingham, if a station were formed there.

FRAMLINGHAM, WARRNAMBOOL, AND BELFAST. There are sixty-two Aborigines belonging to the above-named tribes—thirty-six males and twenty-six females, including nine children and nine half-castes. l‘ir. Green reports that he found only five Aborigines on the reserve at Framlingham. There is a slab- hut on the reserve, containing two rooms. 13

The blacks are very anxious.to have some person to take charge of the station again, and they name eighty blacks who would settle on the reserve if a master were appointed. They get their rations at Mr. Tozer's at Wangoon. Mr. Green reports that he saw two half-castes at Mr. McAlister's, near Wangoon. Mr. McAlister is of opinion that the greater part of the Aborigines in this locality would settle on the reserve at Framlingham, if some person were appointed to take charge of them. Mr. Green was present at a meeting of Aborigines who were anxious to reside on the reserve at Framlingham. Forty Aborigines were present at the meeting.

NAREEB-NAREEB The Aborigines belonging to this tribe number sixty-nine, and consist of forty-one males and twenty- eight females ; of these, four are children and one is a half-caste. Mr. Green reports that there were no Aborigines at the Nareeb-nareeb station when he was there, but that he saw a good many of this tribe at the meeting at Caramut. Mr. Gray, who has charge of the Aborigines there, thinks that the stores should be sent to Framling- ham or Lake Condah. The Aborigines in this locality keep up their number very well.

HAMILTON AND NEIGHBORING TRIBE. There are forty-four Aborigines belonging to this locality—thirty-three males and eleven females, including four children and one male half-caste. Mr. Green says that there were no blacks at Hamilton when he was there, and he reports that Mr.

• Learmonth thinks that the blacks under his care would settle at the station at Lake Condah if a good manager were appointed there.

LAKE CONDAH AND PORTLAND TRIBES. These tribes number ninety-five, consisting of fifty-one males and forty-four females ; of these, thirty- six are children. The number of half-castes belonging to these tribes is twelve. Mr. Green reports that he found sixty-two Aborigines on the station at Lake Condah, and they all appeared neat and clean. He examined the land that has been cleared of timber and fenced in for cultivation. This consists of a paddock of about fourteen acres, of which about half an acre is laid down with peas, onions, and potatoes. There will no doubt be a good crop of potatoes from the remainder of the paddock if the season be favorable, as the land is as good as could be wished for. The grass on the reserve is very bad, owing to the great number of strange stock running on it, and the stock belonging to the Board is not in good condition. There are two huts on the reserve : one is occupied by the master (Mr. Francis), and the other is used as a store. Mr. Green saw two half-caste young men working for wages at Mr. McLeod's station, near the Lake Condah station.

SANDFORD, DARTMOOR, CASTERTON, AND ROSENEATH TRIBES. These tribes number thirty-two Aborigines, consisting of sixteen males and sixteen females. Included in this number are eleven children and three half-castes. Mr. Green reports that he saw eight blacks at Sandford, and that they said they would go to Lake ' Condah station as soon as the shearing season was over. Mr. Jackson employs "Jacky. White" and his wife, and states that he is going to build him a hut, and that he prefers him to a white man. Mr. Jackson is of opinion that it would be better to send stores, &c., to Lake Condah, and not to the neighboring stations, because the blacks would soon settle there.

BALMORAL TRIBE. Mr. Green reports that there are twenty-two Aborigines belonging to this tribe—fourteen males and eight females ; of these, three are children. He thinks that the stores in future should be sent to Mr. Officer's station at Mount Talbot, which would be the means of keeping the Aborigines more away from the township, where they get drink.

BENYEO TRIBE. This tribe numbers eighteen—twelve males and six females ; these include three children, two of whom are half-castes. Mr. McLeod, who has charge of the blacks at Benyeo, has eight Aborigines on the station. He states that he sent six of them to the Mission station ten months since, and that he is going to send two more

there in the course of a month. He thinks that all the blacks belonging to Benyeo will go there, and Mr. . Green is of the same opinion. The health of the Aborigines during the past year has been good. The men on the station are employed washing sheep at present.

MOUNT TALBOT TRIBE. There are twenty-seven Aborigines belonging to this tribe—twenty-one males and six females ; two of the females are half-castes. There are eight blacks on the station at present. The men are engaged washing sheep, &c., for

which they get from ios. to 558. per week each. Mr. Officer says that they will go and spend their wages • in drink as soon as they are paid. 14

VECTIS (WIMMERA TRIBE). There are twenty-three of this tribe now at Mr. Wilson's station (Vectis)—twelve males and eleven females ; of these, three are children and one is a half-caste. Mr. Green reports that he saw twenty-three Aborigines at this station—seven of the men were employed washing sheep, &c.—and that Mr. Wilson informed him that two of thein have each made £6, and the others from £3 to £¢ each, during the shearing season. He says that he will not employ any of them another season, because they expend nearly all their earnings in drink. They will not take payment in clothes. Mr. Wilson is of opinion that the blacks under his care will not go to the Mission station at Lake Hindmarsh to settle there ; but he thinks that in a very few years they will all have died out.

WIMMERA TRIBES. MISSION STATION, LIKE 1-RW3:MARSH. The total number of Aborigines on the roll at this station is ninety-two, consisting of sixty-one males and thirty-one females, including fourteen children and fifteen half-castes. Mr. Green reports that he noticed that a number of new huts had been built since his last visit in 1866. He saw the missionary (Mr. Hartman) distribute the stores to fifty-seven Aborigines. He gave each adult three pounds of flour, twelve ounces of sugar, and two ounces of tea. This quantity was three days' rations. The next distribution would be rations for four days. All the Aborigines who came to the store were well dressed and clean, and they appeared to be healthy and very happy. Mr. Green then says that he visited all the huts, and that he found all that were finished neat and clean. There were ten good substantial huts, all inhabited by married couples. Six more huts were in course of erection, and three of them were nearly finished. There were three temporary bark huts. In all nineteen huts were used by the Aborigines. A few of the blacks were still living in mia-mias. The other buildings on the station consisted of a church, a school-room (which was used also as a dining-room for the children), a dwelling-house (containing nine rooms), a kitchen, a store, a cart-house with work-shop attached, a smithy, a fowl-house, &c. The girls sleep in two rooms attached to the dwelling-house of the Missionaries, and the boys sleep in a room attached to the school-house. The stores were all in good condition. The stock were all in good condition, and consisted of four cows, six bullocks, one bull, eleven young cattle, and about one thousand sheep. Two sheep are killed daily for the blacks. In reference to the conduct of the blacks on the Sunday he was there, Mr. Green reports that they assembled in the church three times on that day—twice for prayers and once for singing. Thirty-eight Aborigines attended the morning service—eighteen males and twenty females. They were all well dressed and very clean, and they all seemed to give great attention to what was read and said to them. Mrs. Hartmann had nearly all the females at Sabbath school after the services. Ten of them can read very well in the Bible, and some of them seem to understand what they do read The next day Mr. Green examined the gardens and the hay crop. He says there are thirteen small plots all within one enclosure ; each plot belongs to a man and his wife. The men dig the ground, and the women afterwards attend to it, watering it and keeping it clean. Some of the gardens have plenty of vegetables in them and a few fruit trees. They appear to grow very well. The missionaries have plenty of vegetables and fruit in their gardens, and they supply the children out of them. The hay crop looks very well. There are about three acres of it. The ground, however, is very poor and would require manuring before it would grow wheat. Mr. Green states that if the reserve were larger it would enable the blacks to keep more sheep, which would be a means of manuring the ground, and they could then grow wheat for flour for the whole station. The clip of wool this season from the sheep on the station is a - little over z,000 lbs., and it appears to be of fair quality. Several of the young men have been employed at the neighboring stations during the shearing season, and all who have returned brought their earnings with them. Some have bought paper-hangings and other things for their huts. The health of the Aborigines who have settled on the station has been good, but about twelve have died at or near the station during the past twelve months. Mr. Green reports that some of the children who attend the school can read very well, and he states that their copy-books were clean and their writing good.

HORSHAM Mr. Green reports that he went to Mr. Charles Wilson's station at Walmer, but there were no Aborigines there.

LONGERENONG. It is reported that about twenty-three Aborigines frequent this place. Mr. S. Wilson states that he had that number during the shearing season, but that they had all gone away except one boy. He says that they are dying out very fast, and he recommends that efforts be made to collect all the children and any of the young men and women who would be willing to settle. 15

He states that. the .stores and medical comforts supplied by the Board are ample for all the require- ments of the Aborigines, but that in his opinion they do not do them any real good. He says that they should not be supplied with any tobacco, as they can always get money to purchase that.

CARR'S PLAINS The number of blacks who frequent this station is thirty-six, consisting of twenty males and sixteen females. Of this number, eleven are children and seven are half-castes. Mr: 'Green reports that he saw twelve blacks at Mr. Wettenhall's station at Carr's Plains. He learned from Mr. Wettenhall tlutt there had been seven deaths during the past year. The blacks say that eleven died, but Mr. Green could not get them to give the names. The blacks, as a rule, will never mention the names of any of their friends who have died. The blacks here have erected three very fair bark huts for themselves on Mr. Dennis' land, in which they sleep at night. , They have beds erected in them with straw mattresses, and they look rather comfortable. There is a half-caste girl living in Mr. Wettenhall's house, who can both read and write pretty fairly ; and there are two others, a boy and a girl, who can read and write a little. Two of the men have gone to Colac with sheep, for which service they are each to receive fifteen shillings a week while the journey lasts. Mr. Wettenhall employs a man at ten shillings per week, and he told Mr. Green that he prefers him as a servant to a white man.

AMHERST. There are six Aborigines belonging to this locality—two males and four females, including one half-caste. Mr. Green states that he saw one of the blacks in the hospital who had met with an accident by falling from a tree. He is recovering rapidly. He is attended in the hospital by his wife.

CARNGHAM. Mr. Green reports that he visited Carngham, but that he did not see any of the Aborigines. He says that the tribe numbers about sixty-six.

LAKE WELLINGTON STATION. The number of Aborigines who frequent this station is eighty-one, namely, forty-three males and thirty-eight females ; of these, twenty-two are children. Mr. Green reports that he found twenty-nine Aborigines on the station, including seventeen children, and that nearly all of them appeared neat and clean. In reference to the reserve at Lake Wellington, Mr. Green remarks that "all the land seems rather poor, still some of it would grow a good crop of potatoes, and that he saw some good wheat growing near Sale on land much the same as this. There is very little grass on the reserve." The number of huts and buildings on the reserve is as follows :—There are seven huts, in which Mr. Hagenauer stated that married couples live ; but at present there are only four of them occupied, three by four married women, and one by one married man, whose wife has run away some four months ago to some of Mr. •Bulmer's • blacks. The other buildings are :—One weatherboard building (empty), containing two rooms ; one church • one school-room, with five bed-rooms and one sitting-room attached ; one store ; one milking shed:; one kitchen ; and Mr. Hagenauer's house, containing seven rooms. Total, fourteen buildings. The seven huts belonging to the blacks are all good and very well built. They all have small gardens attached to them, in which are growing some potatoes and cabbages, &c. The crop is fair. There is one small paddock of about three acres in which a little wheat and potatoes have been grown this season. This is all the cultivation on the reserve. Mr. Hagenauer states that the health of the Aborigines on the whole has been good for some time past, and that when any bad cases of sickness occur he calls in a doctor. He - says that the supplies sent by the Central Board for the Aborigines are quite sufficient for all their wants. Mr. Green says that he was also informed by Mr. Hagenauer that all the men are just now employed reaping, &c., on the farms in the neighborhood, and that they get from i6s. to 208. each per week, and that they nearly all take good care of their money when they get it. Mr. Green reports that he went through another portion of the reserve, and that he saw .some parts of fair land. He saw the cattle belonging to the Central Board, forty-one in number. They were all in good condition. On the Sunday, he says that he had services with the Aborigines, and that all on the station attended, and were neat and clean, and gave good heed to what he spoke. The store and the stores on hand were all in good condition. Several of the children and young women can read very well. Their writing, Mr. Green reports to be fair. The children are taught by an Aboriginal woman, "Bessy Flower," and she looks after the washing, the cooking of their food, &c. At prayers in the church " Bessy" led the singing with the harmonium. All the children sing very well.

LAKE TYERS STATION. The number of Aborigines who receive stores, &c., at this station is 103, consisting of sixty males and forty-three females, including twenty-eight children. 16

Mr. Green reports that on his arrival at the station he found no men there. They were all playing with the four men who came with him from Lake Wellington There are over sixty blacks on the station ; of these, twenty are women and twenty children. Mr. Green says that after dinner he went over the lake to see the men, and there were twenty-four of them playing cricket. They nearly all appeared very wild ; the most of the children were running about without any clothes, and all the women were walking about with their blankets without any other clothes, or with the skirt of a dress hung over on the shoulder. The women were all dirty and lying about in mia-mias amongst a lot of diseased-looking dogs. There was one very tidy young man amongst the men, and he was the only one who had built himself a hut. There were also three black and two half-caste girls living in a but near Mr. Bulmer's house, who were also very tidy. In the evening about forty of the blacks assembled at prayers in the school-house, and they paid good attention to what was spoken to them, and they all joined in the singing. A few of them showed Mr. Green their copy-books after prayers. They write a good fair round- hand. Mr. Green states that he inspected the huts. He says there is only one finished but belonging to the blacks and two in course of erection. Mr. Bulmer states that they were commenced more than a year ago, and that the men who began them are not now on the station. The other buildings on the station are :—One store (built of bark) ; one school-room (built of quartering and palings, and floored. with hardwood slabs) ; one little hut, built of palings ; and Mr. Bulmer's house. There are seven buildings in all. The cultivation consisted of about three-quarters of an acre of potatoes and Mr. Bulmer's garden (about one acre). There is none of the land fenced but the above. There were about seventy tons of wattle-bark stripped, cut up, and bagged. One-half of it was lying at the entrance of the Lakes ready to be shipped for Melbourne. Mr. Bulmer stated that this bark had been cut by the blacks to pay for the stores that be had bought (one and a half tons of flour and seven hundred pounds of sugar). A good deal of the ground reserved for the Aborigines is suitable for growing potatoes. It is some- thing like the land near Warrnambool,"which grows such fine potatoes. But Mr. Bulmer says that he cannot get any of his men to work unless he pays them for so doing. Mr. Green states that there are large quantities of fish and game at this station. Mr. Bulmer stated that the health of the Aborigines at this place has been very good. The whooping- cough has been among them during the past season, but they are all better now. He said that he has never had to send for a doctor since the station was formed. Mr. Green reports that on Sunday about forty of the Aborigines assembled twice. The greater part of the men and a few of the women appeared pretty clean. All the children attended the Sabbath school. Some of them can read pretty well in the Bible.

TANGAMBALANGA. The number of blacks who frequent this station, according to Mr. Green's report, is thirty-six, consisting of nineteen males and seventeen females, including nine children, of whom three are half-castes. Mr. Green states that when he was at Tangambalanga station there were only six Aborigines there ; 1. the others had gone up the Mitta-mitta. Those who were on the station were healthy and well clothed from the stores supplied by the Central Board. Mrs. Mitchell informed him that she issues the stores to the blacks weekly, and that the supplies forwarded by the Board are quite ample for the requirements of the Aborigines ; that there have been but very few deaths amongst the blacks since they have been supplied with food and clothing, and that she `thinks that they would have all been dead before now had it not been for such supplies. Mr. Mitchell stated that nothing more could be done for the Aborigines than is now being done, except the removal of the half-caste children to the school at Coranderrk.

REIDSDALE. The number of Aborigines who receive rations at this station is twenty-four—seven males and seventeen females ; of these, thirteen are children. Mr. Green was informed that the blacks were more healthy now than they were some years ago, and that all the children were going to the daily school.

PECHELBA Mr. Green states that he visited this station and was informed that it was frequented by twenty- seven blacks belonging to the Ulupna tribe—nineteen males and eight females, including five children. It was stated that the blacks here got no supplies from the Central Board except blankets, which they received at Ulupna or Reidsdale.

WYUNA. Mr. Green states that there are about thirty-one Aborigines who belong to this station—nineteen males and twelve females, including eight children. There were no Aborigines on the station when he was there, but he heard that there were about twelve at the vineyard about twelve miles off. Mr. Mackenzie informed him that he had a large number of blacks (about one hundred) employed at the station during the shearing time, and that they all worked well. The stores forwarded by the Central Board were, it was stated, insufficient for the number of Aborigines who came to the place. The doctor is called in whenever he is required. 17

Mr. Mackenzie reported that the blacks still drink very hard, and that they have no difficulty in obtaining drink at the shanties, and even at many of the public-houses. He thinks that they have improved in health since the stores were sent to them.

ECHUCA. The number of Aborigines belonging to this place is twenty-four—twenty males and four females, including seven children. Mr. Green reports that he only saw three blacks at Echuca. On his journey from Wyuna Mr. Green saw fourteen Aborigines at the company's vineyard ; four of them had taken a contract for fencing, and they were all employed at some work. For the fence they were to get four pounds (£4) per mile and their rations. It was a bush fence.

TERRICK-TERRICK. The number of Aborigines who frequent this station is twenty-six—seventeen males and nine females, including six children. Mr. Green reports that there were no Aborigines at the station when he was there, and that Mr. Synnot informed him that the Aborigines, as a whole, are a little improved within the past few years in their state of health, but at the same time he thinks that they are dying out very fast. He says that they still drink very hard.

MILDURA The number of Aborigines who belong to this locality is eighty-four, consisting of fifty-four males and thirty females, including ten children. Mr. Green states that he saw several blacks on his way down the River Murray. He saw twelve at Euston and six at a public-house about thirty miles from the Mildura station. He says that Mr. Wm. Jamieson informed him that the Aborigines are now more healthy than they were some years ago, owing, he considers, to their working more, and that they take better care of themselves. He says that the young men work very well, and that they often buy food for the old ones amongst them. Mr. Jamieson showed him a book in which he kept an aecount of money paid to and received from the Aborigines during the past twelve months for work done, and things bought by them out of his store, and the amount altogether came to £158 t8s. He says that all the Aborigines are always worth their food on his station ; and he considers that they are so on all the stations on the Murray. During the shearing time he employed about thirty blacks, and they spent nearly all the money they got on stores for themselves and others (about one hundred in all). He states that he would rather have the Aborigines to be among his sheep than white men. The other, settlers, it is said, as a rule, pay the blacks in cash or by cheque , and that as soon as they get paid they go off to the nearest public-house or shanty and spend the whole in nk.dri

KULKYNE. The number of Aborigines belonging to this place is thirty-five—twenty-four males and eleven females; four of the males are children. Mr. Green reports that when he arrived at Kulkyne he found forty blacks there, fifteen of whom were able-bodied men, and were employed putting up a bush fence for Mr. Leslie. Mr. Leslie informed him that the Aborigines who were employed buy their own rations, and that he only gives the Government stores to the old and infirm. He says that the blacks had lately got 20 for one fence, and that they spent it all in drink. The blacks had been pretty healthy, and few deaths had taken place amongst them. All the young men employed are well clothed, and, with one exception, they appear to be healthy.

SWAN HILL. There are twenty-five Aborigines belonging to the Swan Hill tribe—eighteen males and seven females, including five children. Mr. Green states that on his journey up the river he saw a good number of the Aborigines at the several stations he passed, and they all appeared to be healthy ; all were looking better than on his former visit. He reports that Dr. Gummow informed him that there had been but little sickness amongst the Aborigines during the past year; that all the young men are nearly always employed on the stations. Mr. Green heard the same from many of the settlers, and he saw a good number of the blacks so employed. Dr. Gummow thinks that these young men should get no Government supplies except a blanket, because when they get these supplies it only enables them to save the more money to spend in drink ; also, that no supplies should be given to any of the settlers to distribute to the Aborigines, because they give out the stores in too large quantities, and in some cases they give the rations, &c., to those who are regularly employed on the station. He considers that there is not a station on the Murray where the blacks do not do more work than would pay the settler well for rations for them all the year round. But a very small quantity of stores should be sent to Swan Hill, just sufficient for the old and infirm. He says that there is still a great deal of drinking going on amongst the blacks, and that he cannot put a stop to it. When they are sick they come to him for advice and medicine, and some of them go into the hospital. Mr. Green states that he only saw two Aborigines at Swan Hill. No. 47, 3. 18

BOORT. Mr. Green reports that there are sixty blacks who frequent this place. He only saw one, however, and he heard that there hafi not been much sickness amongst them during the past twelve months.

NUMBER AND LOCATION OF ABORIGINES ON THE 31sT MAY, 1869. FROM MR GREEN'S RETURNS AND ESTIMATES.)

Total Number of Districts. Localities. Men, Women, and Children.

II0 Southern ... Coranderrk and Mordialloc

24 South-Western Geelong and Colac ... ... ... ... Camperdown ... ... ... ... ... 18 Framlingham, Warrnambool, Belfast, and Mortlake ... 6z Nareeb,nareeb, Wickliffe ... ... 69' Hamilton ... ••• ••• 46 Mount Rouse, Condah, and Portland 97 Casterton and Sandford ... ... ••• z8 Balmoral ••• ••• 22 Carngham and Talbot ... ••• 6o 42.6 28 North-Western ... Mount Talbot ... ... ... Apsley ...... .. Wimmera, Richardson, and Carr's Plains 269 Mildura, Bulkyne, and Swan Hill ... 34o Boort, Loddon ... ... ... 6o Gunbower and Terrick-terrick ... So 794 Northern ... Echuca, Wyuria, and Illupna 94. Goulburn Valley... ••• So 144 186 South-Ekstern Gippsland ••• •••

North-Eastern Wangaratta and Tangambalanga ••• 74 1,734 Wanderers (number estimated by Mr. Green) loo 1,83+

NOTE.—Daring his tour of inspection in,1868 and 1869 Mr. Green collected the names of 1,514 Abor gins.

APPENDIX II,

REPORTS OF MR. R. BROUGH SMYTH AND MR. JOHN MACKENZIE.

CORANDERRE. GENTLEMEN, Queen-street, 16th November, 1867. On Friday, the 15th instant, I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk. I went there about ten o'clock in the morning, and at once entered the school-room, where the teacher, Mr. Lang, was engaged in teaching about thirty children. The room was clean, and order and regularity were everywhere apparent. Mr. Lang caused some of the boys and girls to read some sentences in a child's book, and with one or two exceptions they acquitted themselves very well. One rather small boy showed remarkable intelligence, and not only read well but appeared to understand what he was reading. The classes then sang, and the improvement quite astonished me. Now that they are properly taught, their voices are sweet and agreeable. I inspected their copy-books, and was glad to see that here too Mr. Lang's beneficial labors are apparent. Many of them write neatly, and all the books were better kept and cleaner than was to be expected. The new building, consisting of a large store-room and dormitories, is well built, and though it was costly the expenditure was not injudicious. It is solid and substantial, and whatever changes may be made it will remain a valuable property. The bed-rooms were neat and tidy, and very clean. The floor of the store-room is of boards, and not cemented as originally designed, and I cannot tell who is responsible for the mistake. There is at present no destruction by vermin, but they will attack the provisions by and by without doubt, unless a proper floor be laid down. The arrangement of the stores was not as good as I could have wished, but there was nothing so far wrong as to call for complaint ; and some allowance must be made on account of the haste which is necessary in distributing the provisions. 19

The garden in front of the house looks very well, and in every part of the station I saw improve- ment. I entered and examined a great many of the, huts occupied by the married people, and it was gratifying to see so many marks of the change produced by domestication. The men were away at work in the fields or on the station, and the women were occupied in little offices in their homes. Objects indi- cating some taste and some pritie in the appearalace of their dwellings were not few. Their native baskets were hung up against the walls, the walls were here and there ornamented with pictures, their rugs and clothing were arranged in order, and their fires tidily kept. All these little things serve to astonish those who are acquainted with the habits and feelings of the Aborigines. It is known that in his original condition the Aboriginal is not indifferent to his appearance, and that he takes a pride in his weapons ; but contact with the whites makes him careless and slovenly, and much patience and skill and judgment are needed to bring back his self-respect and to induce him to interest himself in a direction in which be is so far distanced by the European. It has been effected • at .Coranderrk. The condition of the huts, the way in which the infants are dressed and cared for, and the cheerfulness and activity of the people, are evidence of it. In one of the fields I saw some of the men ploughing, and their shouts as they drove the oxen and turned the plough seemed to me to indicate that they work freely and take some pleasure in it. In riding about the place, unaccompanied by any one connected with the station, I had a good opportunity' of seeing things in their ordinary condition ; and it will be gratifying to the Central Board to learn that, judging from the appearance of the cattle, due care is taken of the stock. The fences are good, and some of them are protected from fire by a ditch and earthen bank. It was reported to me that there was no sickness at the place. Everybody whom I saw looked healthy, except one man, who appeared to be' suffering from some throat affection. The little village presents quite a pleasing picture, but I am still of opinion that the real work of improvement has yet to begin. The station should be made self-supporting, and there are many ways in which it could be done. It is -very likely, because of inexperience and of want of a mote correct knowledge of the habits of the Aborigines and of the capabilities of the soils at Coranderrk, I may not be competent to devise the best scheme ; but, according to my view, it would be more economical to raise such crops on the station as would need the least amount of labor for ;heir proper culture, and such labor as the blacks would willingly give, and such crops as would in themselves gratify the tastes of the blacks. The heavy work of fencing-in paddocks and preparing the ground for wheat, the dull monotony of forming drills and furrows, might well, in my humble judgment, be exchanged for the lighter tasks belonging to the vineyard, the orchard, and the garden. With an abundant supply of water, fine soils, and an excellent climate, I believe it would be possible to grow fruit for the Melbourne market ; and as the roads are now pretty good and every day being made better, . I cannot see why the fruit and some of the garden produce might not be brought to market in small baskets packed in a suitably constructed waggon. Apples, pears, plums, nectarines, apricots, peaches, cherries, almonds, grapes for the table, strawberries, and gooseberries, could easily be delivered in Melbourne in the early morning on market days in as good condition' as fruit brought from Brighton. I say with proper management, because, if the business were conducted in a slovenly way, and no proper conveyance or suitable horses provided for carrying the produce, and if the fruit were not pulled quickly and speedily packed and sent away at once, the plan would fail. I believe it would pay better to grow onions than to raise wheat and oats, though neither wheat nor oats should be altogether neglected. Other produce, such as cabbages, carrots, turnips, and potatoes, would be consumed on the station. As the land could be irrigated, the crops would probably be heavy, and quite a large orchard and garden could be well kept, where the labor of the children would in certain seasons be as valuable as that of the men and women. The Aborigines should also be encouraged to make baskets and rugs for sale, and the moneys got in this way, as well as by the sale of fruit, &c., should be paid into the consolidated revenue. The plan of appropriating the profits obtained in any way by the labor of the blacks in the purchase of clothes, &c., by the superintendent, should be stopped. The Parliament should have the entire control of the funds, in what way soever they may be obtained, and it is certain that in any case where, by good management, a station became self-supporting or showed a balance of profits over expenditure, it would excite liberality rather than induce a too rigid economy. But a strict account should be kept of all moneys obtained by the labor of individuals; and they should be rewarded suitably whenever diligence or skill, or more than ordinary attention to duty, was manifested. In this way, or in some other perhaps better way, the Aborigines could be raised out of the condition of pauperism. It is humiliating to think that nearly one hundred blacks on a good station, which they have occupied about five years, should still be dependent in a great measure on the bounty of the country. The more I have considered the proposal that the blacks and half-castes should be taught useful trades, I am the more convinced that it would prove an unwise step. Wherever the Aboriginal is placed, the uneducated -whites look with pity on him ; and no skilled tradesman could exert himself in a society where be would be always regarded as an inferior—as a creature that by some extraordinary act of nature had come to be nearly like other men. He could never join in the recreations of his fellow-workmen, and he would be subjected continually to slights, which might not be intended to give pain, but would surely wound. The Aboriginal is susceptible and quick in detecting motives. An Aboriginal blacksmith, or joiner, or shoemaker, would never make a living if he had to compete with Europeans ; and moreover, improve him as we may, it is doubtful whether he would ever be self-reliant and able to exert self-control. He would much more likely become a nuisance. The best course, probably, is to keep the blacks together, and bring them as seldom as possible in contact with other races. If the Central Board approve of the suggestion I made when the Coranderrk, station was established, that the labor of the blacks should be employed in raising produce for the, market, I shall issue the necessary instructions at once. In order that it may be done well, I should recommend that a skilful gardener be employed to visit the station and select a site, and furnish a plan of the proposed orchard and garden, and that a competent person be engaged for, say two years, to plant the trees and manage the establishment. I was sorry to see some of the boys on the station insufficiently clad. I beg to suggest that a suffi- cient number of duck trousers be supplied for wear in summer, and moleskin for winter. 20

The children might be taught to make for themselves good coverings for the feet out of kangaroo skins ; and if skins cannot be got at Coranderrk, Mr. Green might easily procure them from the Aboriginal station in the Western district, or buy them. They could use wooden soles when working or looking after stock. It would be well to confine Mr. Green almost entirely to the duties of his office, Inspector of Stations, or appoint him manager at Coranderrk, and get some other person to act as inspector. He should continue to live at Coranderrk, as his influence among the blacks is considerable ; and it appears to have been always used, as far as I can learn, beneficially. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, The Central Board appointed to watch R. BROUGH SMYTH. over the interests of the Aborigines, Melbourne.

GENTLEMEN, Melbourne, 26th October, 1868. We have the honor to report for your information the results of our inspection of the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk. We arrived at the station about ten o'clock a.m. on Saturday, the z4th instant, and we found Mr. Lang, the teachers in the school-house, who conducted us through the buildings and huts. Good order, cleanliness, and a cheerful appearance of industry were every -where apparent. The Government buildings and the huts inhabited by the Aborigines were in good order, and many of the latter were as convenient and as comfortable as the cottages inhabited by the poorer class of Europeans. We caused the Aborigines to assemble in the school-room ; sixty-seven of them obeyed the call, but some of the adults were absent, either following some employment or engaged in hunting or shooting. They were not aware that we were about to visit the station, or they would have been present. The appearance of the people was satisfactory. Only two were sick or slightly unwell, and the inspecting surgeon had been apprised of their ailments. The children exhibited their copy-books ; some of them read to us, and the classes sang several hymns, &c., and we are bound to state, that their conduct and acquirements reflect credit on Mr. Lang, the teacher. In going through the village we observed the ruins of some huts which were destroyed when fever was amongst the blacks, and we suggested that the old timbers should be removed and the ground cleared, and Mr. Lang promised to attend to this. We instructed Mr. Lang to cause the piggeries to be removed to some spot near the flat, and we have been informed that this work has been commenced and will soon be completed. We refrained from enquiring into certain complaints preferred by some of the adult blacks, because Mr. Green, whose management to some extent they affected, was absent. The complainants were present, and we have reason to believe that they are now tolerably well satisfied with the arrangements which have been made in regard to the hours of labor, the disposal of produce, &c. ; but having in view the peculiarities of the Aboriginal mind, and the trust they repose in those who have the care of their interests, and the perfect reliance they place in persons in authority who make promises to them, we are of opinion that no time should be lost in investigating the complaints which were made some time back by Wonga and others.

If the enquiry be , further postponed, the complainants will be dissatisfied, and their confidence in us will be abated. Wonga, in the presence of the members of the Board and the Honorable J. F. Sullivan, who accompanied usto the station, gave an interesting address to the Aborigines in his native tongue. It was impressive, and seemed to rivet the attention of the adult Aborigines. We beg to suggest that steps be taken to induce the Aborigines who some time back left Coranderrk and settled on the Alexandra goldfields to return to the station, and that an attempt be made to get the Aborigines who frequent Geelong and Mordialloc to take up their abode with their friends at this place. We saw a fine crop of wheat in one of the paddocks ; the garden was in good order, and the orchard seemed likely to produce a great quantity of fruit. Nearly all the fruit trees which were sent to Coranderrk in the winter were looking well. We cannot conclude this report without recommending that the report of the Secretary, affecting as it does the present and future management of the station, should engage your earnest consideration, and that, in order to the better understanding of the matters involved, the members should visit and examine the station as we have done. Indeed, periodical visits are indispensably necessary if the results sought by the Board are to be realized. We have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servants, R. BROUGH SMYTH, The President and Members of the Central Board JOHN MACKENZIE. appointed to watch over the interests of the Aborigines.

SIR, Queen-street, Melbourne, z7th May, 1869. I have the honor to inform you that I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on the 15th instant, and I am glad to be able to state that I found the Aborigines (numbering nearly foo) in good health, and in better circumstances than ever I have seen them. I saw every person on the station, and examined every hut, and nothing seemed to be wanting to the comfort and happiness of the people. Order, cleanliness, and cheerfulness were everywhere observed. In company with the principal men I visited the farm, the orchard, and the store-room, and examined the stock ; and all I saw satisfied me that the labors of Mr. Green and Mr. Lang have been eminently beneficial. I directed Mr. Green to employ men to clear a space of about ten acres of land lying to the north of the huts (which can be done at small cost), and put in a crop, and I have reason to believe that the result in all respects will be satisfactory. 21

The childien were healthly and cheerful, and appear to have profited much from the instruction imparted by Mr. Lang. I shall give further information to the Central Board at the next meeting. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, The President of the Central Board R. BROUGH SMYTH. for the Protection of Aborigines, &c.

APPENDIX

DR. GIBSON'S REPORTS.

CORANDERRK. GENTLEMEN, Flemington, 9th Aug'ust, 1865. I have the honor to report that I visited the station of the Aborigines at Coranderrk on 5th July, and, for the short time the station has been in operation, it is in a most satisfactory condition. There were ninety-nine Aborigines on the station, consisting of families, single men, and children. With the exception of three adults, they were all in good health. One of these is suffering from chronic inflammation of the orbit, the eyeball having been rudely destroyed in infancy ; a second is suffering from acute bronchitis ; and a third from that very intractable skin disease, psoriasis. For these I prescribed, and, with the care of your superintendent, I have every confidence in a favorable result. The children are in buoyant spirits, robust and active, and well advanced in education for such a class. They have their meals in the school-room, which, from its size, is well suited for the purpose. Their,dormitories, including beds and bedding, are very comfortable. The families, and indeed all on the station, have a very satisfactory degree of comfort; some of those that have been longest there having an amount dorder and cleanliness that quite surprised me, but showing what can be done for this unfortunate race. I examined the stores, which consisted of tea, sugar, flour, salt beef, and potatoes. These were all good and sound. The potatoes were grown on the station. I also examined the medicine-chest. It contains a good supply of all the ordinary medicines. In view of the whole arrangements, and the very intractable habits of the race, I consider the station in a very satisfactory state for the time it has been in operation. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, To the Central Board for the Protection J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. of the Aborigines.

GENTLEMEN, Flemington, 3oth August, 1865. I have the honor to report that on the z4th instant I made a special visit to Coranderrk Aboriginal station, at the request of your superintendent, Mr. Green, to examine an Aboriginal boy who had been sick several days. The boy is about ten years old, and is ill of low, continued fever ; is very much wasted and in a dangerous state. I prescribed for him and enjoined his complete separation from the rest of the community. This latter suggestion, I am sorry to say, can only be partially carried out, as there is no special room for that purpose. I would therefore suggest the necessity of having some such room built, as at present there are no means of effectually separating any case of sickness, however infectious. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, To the Central Board for the Protection J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. of the Aborigines. P.S.—While writing the above, I have received a note from Mr. Green informing me that the boy has since died.—J.G.

GENTLEMEN, Flemington, 18th January, 1866. I have the honor to report that I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on 4th October last. There were eighty Aborigines on the station, their number having been reduced since my previous visit on account of the shearing season, several having gone (under permission) to shear. I have further to report the highly satisfactory state of health on the station, as there is not a single case of sickness. The children are clean and cheerful, and the adult portion of the community have the same healthy, contented appearance. Their huts are clean, and many of them very comfortable. I also inspected the stores, and found them good and sound. The order and general management of the station reflect much credit on the tact and industry of your superintendent. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, To the Central Board for the Protection J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. of the Aborigines. 22

GENTLEMEN, Flemington, 26th July, 1866. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on 23rd May. There were then on the station one hundred and nine (109) Aborigines. I am happy to report that, with the exception of a few minor caseq of influenza, they are all in good health. Their huts are clean and in good order, several of them showing taste in their arrangements. The children hav,e a cheerful and healthy appearance, and many of them can read and write very fairly. - I also examined the stores, consisting of flour, salt meat, tea and sugar, and potatoes. They are all good and sound. Since my last report a room has been built, to be used in case of need as an hospital. In any emergency this will be a very great benefit to the station. In view of the whole, the station is in good order, and the Aborigines are comfortable and contented. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, To the Central Board for the Protection J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. of the Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, r7th September, 1866. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on the 14th instant. There were then on the station 1°8 Aboriginals, and with the exception of one man (Harry Neilson), who is recovering from an attack of rheumatism, they are all in good health, I-arrived at the station at eight o'clock in the morning, and found sixty-one of them assembled at prayers in the school-room. During the service they conducted themselves with strict propriety and earnest- ness. The school-room was clean and this being washing-day, the children's dormitories were all washed out and were thoroughly "clean ; the blankets and bedding were outside airing, and were also clean. There are thirty-four children in the school (nineteen boys, and fifteen girls); of these, fourteen are under seven years old, fifteen between seven and thirteen years, and five above thirteen years. They were very orderly in school, and according to their ages read and write well. The want, however, of a regular teacher is at present a great drawback to their progress, as the greater part of their teaching is now carried on by- the elder pupils. The children were all clean and in good health, and appeared cheerful and happy. In reference to the size of thbir dormitories, they are becoming too full, and it is very desirable that the proposed additions should be made immediately that they might be available in the hot weather. There are eighteen single men on the station ; their huts (two) are clean, but do not present that appearance of comfort that many of their married friends do. Still their beds are clean, and (with the exception of Harry Neilson, already mentioned) they are all in good health, and most of them are robust young men. The huts of the married people present a great variety of appearance, from good to very middling. Three of them (those of William Barak, Johnny Ferguson, and Farmer Tommy) deserve especial commenda- tion as being very tidy and comfortable, and would stand favorable comparison with niany cottages of their white brethren. The others, although not by any means so clean or orderly, are comfortable to a much greater degree than their inmates ever could have attained unassisted, and, considering their intractable disposition, do your most indefatigable superintendent much credit. Their bedding and blankets are clean, and many of the females and old men were engaged in basket-making. This being hunting day (Friday) there was no work going on on the farm ; all the able men and several women left in the forenoon for hunting. This is now becoming a more precarious means of eking -out their-subsistence, as the game is getting much scarcer, and will necessitate the Board's adopting, in a short time, other means of supplying meat. This is the less to be regretted, as the exposure on cold and wet nights of these semi-civilized individuals produces many diseases, and the adopting of their wild state of living for two days every week must check the civilizing process very much, especially in the youth. A few additional Cattle on the station would render it self- supporting as far as meat is concerned ; and the exertions of your superintendent have now brought so much land under cultivation, that the Board may expect, in a very short time, to be relieved from supplying any rations but tea and sugar. I examined the stores, consisting of flour, tea, sugar, salt, and potatoes. They were all sound and good. The potatoes have been grown on the station, and are excellent. There is also a large supply of carrots which were produced on the station, and are still sound and good. Since my last visit much has been done in fencing and clearing the ground ; and there is at present

a large field of oats, and another of , wheat, showing large growing crops ; and a third field is in preparation for potatoes. . In view of the whole, there is an appearance of progress ; and the orderly arrangements of the home station, with the contented comfortable aspect of the blacks, indicate great zeal and energy on the part of your excellent superintendent, and at the same time show that the aim of your Board (the protection and civilizing of the Aborigines) is being well carried out. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary to Central Board for Protection of the Aborigines .

SIR, Flemington, 6th December, 1866. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on the z3rd November. There were on the station eighty-two Aboriginals, the diminution in number since my last report having arisen by a party, by permission, having gone to sheep-shearing, and a few to the hunting. With the exception of three minor cases of illness, they are all in good health. I arrived at the station in the morning and found the children in the school-room at breakfast, which was put down comfortably, and at which, under the super- intendence of Mr. Payne, your newly-appointed assistant, they conducted themselves orderly as well as with appetites. Immediately after breakfast, about fifty-six assembled for prayers, which were also conducted by Mr. Payne, your superintendent being on a journey in the interior. The exercise was conducted with strict 28

propriety, and the Aborigines present were clean and orderly. The school-room was also clean, and the dormitories attached, including beds and bedding. I visited all the huts on the station; the young men's huts (two) still have the same untidy appearance noticed in my last report, but their beds and bedding are clean and comfortable. The young man, Harry Neilson, mentioned in my last as suffering from rheumatism, is now quite recovered, and, with the exception of Tarra Bobbie, who is suffering from chronic inflammation of the eyes, all the young men are in good health. The huts of the married people still present a great variety of appearance, but are clean, and some of them very comfortable. The people themselves appear happy and contented, and are clean for their class and in good health, with the exception of two children. Lexy, a girl about twelve years old, is suffering from chronic inflammation of the glands of the neck, and Bobbie, a boy about ten years old, is suffering from irritation of the stomach. The school assembled at ten o'clock ; thirty-four children were present, fourteen girls and twenty boys. It was conducted in a very orderly manner by Mrs. Payne. It was arranged in four classes, the highest being taught by Mrs. Payne, the others by the elder pupils, and the progress of the children in reading and writing is very fair. I also examined the stores, consisting of flour, tea, sugar, beef, and tobacco ; they were all good and sound. The work on the station (clearing, fencing, and cultivating) is progressing well. There were several small parties actually engaged in clearing, and there are large growing crops of oats, wheat, and potatoes in a very promising condition. Reviewing, the whole, the station is in a very favorable state of progress, and the orderly arrange- ments do much credit, to your zealous superintendent ; and the comfort and means of civilization which your station affords to. the Aborigines is really very great. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary to Central Board for Protection to the Aborigines.

GENTLEMEN, Flemington, nth March, 1867. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on the zist instant. There were on the station Io5 Aboriginals in all ; forty-four of these were children under fourteen years of age (twenty-five boys and nineteen girls); seven are under three years of age. The girl Lexy, mentioned in my last, is still suffering from suppuration of the glands of the neck, and is in a very weakly state, but everything is being done for her that can be done. The young man Ned, noticed also in a previous report as suffering from an injury to his ankle, is much better and begins to go about. Tommy Johnston, a young man about twenty-five years of age, died two days before my visit. He had been falling off for some time, and, from the symptons detailed to me by your superintendent, died of phthisis. Harry, one of the married men, is suffering from a sprained back, and will be unfit for work for some time. Eliza, a married woman, is suffering from glandular swellings in the neck, but they are not likely to be tedious. With these exceptions the health of the station is good, and the Aborigines appear cheerful and comfortable. The huts of the married people are clean, and show, in some cases, small attempts at more tidiness lately. Three of the huts are very much improved in their internal appearance and furniture, and would compare with the cottages of many of their white brethren. There are three huts being built, and the workmanship and material in them are very superior to anything already on the place, and show a very great advance on their taste and constructive ability. However, those lately come live in very indifferent huts and have a very poor idea of comfort ; still all on the station are much more comfortable than they ever could have been in their primitive state. The huts (two) of the young men, although not orderly, are clean ; the bedding is also clean. The children's dormitories and bedding are clean and in good order. The children, except Lexy already noticed, are in good health. The clothing of the boys, consisting of two shirts reaching to about the knees, although sufficiently warm in the hot weather, is not enough for the winter season, and I would suggest the necessity of giving them trousers before the cold commences. This is now the more requisite as most of them have had years of comfortable indoor quarters, rendering them less able to stand the external cold. I examined the stores, consisting of flour, tea, sugar, salt, tobacco, and potatoes ; they were all sound and good. On my arrival at the station I had the pleasure of seeing a load of wheat on the way to the mill for grinding, being, I suppose, the first ever produced by the Aborigines of Victoria. The new building for dormitory and store is well advanced and will soon be available, and will be a most useful addition. I may just add that the discipline and order are very good, and that the station has a cleanly and comfortable appearance, reflecting much credit on its management. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, To the Board for the Protection J. GIB-SON, M.R.C.S., Ed. of the Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, zznd April, 1867. I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk yesterday, the 2 I st instant. In addition to your superintendent, Mr. Green, and two of his own family, who are suffering from intermittent fever, there are seven of the Aborigines also suffering from the same complaint, while several are just recovering. 24

The subjoined list contains the names of those at present ill :—David Hunter, a married man ; William Barker, aged about twenty, single ; Carrie, a girl about seventeen, single ; Agnes, a girl about eight ; Bobbie Wandon, a boy about thirteen ; Mister Bell, a boy about fourteen ; John Bond, a boy about eight. I gave instructions as to their treatment and medicine, and trust that, with proper care, the further spread of the fever may be prevented. It will be necessary to forward the following medicines at once, viz. :—One ounce quinine, two ounces dilute sulphuric acid, and one ounce James' fever powder. I may just add that the other Aborigines on the station are in good health, with the exception of

Ellen Pindock, a girl about thirteen years old, who is suffering from ophthalmia. . I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary to Central Board for Protection to the Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, zoth May, 1867. I have the honor to report that I have made a special visit to the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on the i4th instant. The low intermittent fever, reported in my last, still continues, several new cases having occurred since my last visit. There has also been one death, that of a young man aged twenty-two years. This and the amount of sickness cause a look of distress among the blacks quite unusual to them. There are fifteen under treatment, but many of these are convalescing patients. Of the men, four are ill, Wm. Parker, Dick, Jamie Webster, and Bobbie Hollis ; but these are all convalescents. Two boys—Johnny, fourteen years old; and Wm. Nash, ten years—have just taken the fever. Other three—Martin, fourteen years old; Willie Norris, seven years ; and Bobbie Wandon, thirteen years—have been for some time ill, and are now also getting better, although very weak. There are also five girls—Lizzy, seventeen years old ; Ellen Pindock, fourteen years ; Burnie, Agnes, and Isabella, all seven years old ; these are all in bed but in a fair way of recovery. There is also a baby—Margaret Hobson, two years and nine months—ill of the fever. Your superintendent, Mr. Green, although considerably better since my last report, is still exceedingly weak, and the additional fatigue of the station at present is almost too much for him. His two children, reported ill in my last, are convalescing, but a third, a boy about eight years old, has taken the fever. I went over the station—the huts are in their usual state, many of them very tidy, but others capable of much improvement. The dog nuisance on the station has come to a point which cannot longer be tolerated. They are so numerous that they actually pollute the camp ; and besides, being very badly fed, many of them are diseased ; still many of the Aboriginals will insist on keeping them inside their huts, which, of itself, is enough to account for the present fever ; and I am informed by your superintendent that the dogs are of no use to them even for hunting purposes. I would therefore urge the necessity of destroying every dog on the station. The new dormitory is partially occupied and has come in very opportunely in the present distress. The building is a substantial one and well adapted for the purpose. I examined the stores, consisting of flour, meat, tea, sugar, potatoes, and tobacco. They are all sound and good. The flour is of their own growth and makes excellent bread. The potatoes have also been grown on the station and are first-rate. So far as victualling is concerned, there should be good health. For the sick it will be requisite to forward, say, one dozen bottles port wine, with the following medicines :—Seven pounds Epsom salts, two pounds senna leaves, and one ounce quinine. Although the number of patients have increased since my last visit, still all the cases are progressing favorably, and my instructions are being carefully carried out by your superintendent, and everything is being done that can be done for the sick, and, from present appearances, I think my next report will be much more favorable than the present. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary to Central Board for Protection to the Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, z4th June, 1867. I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to the station at Corranderrk on the 15th instant. Although the fever (already reported on), still continues, the patients are now very much diminished in number, five only being confined to bed. Lizzy, a girl seven years old, mentioned in my last, is in a very low state, but is very carefully tended. Martin, a boy fourteen years old, continues also very ill, but is still in a hopeful condition. Jack, a boy eight years old, has taken the fever, but in a mild form. Jamie Webster, a young man, is suffering from debility, the result of the fever, but is in a fair way of recovery. Mrs. Green, your superintendent's wife, has also taken the fever, and in a severe form ; and this is in many ways very trying to Mr. Green, as, in his own present weakness, she was of much service in tending the sick and otherwise assisting. Your white assistant, Thomas Harris, has also been ill during the past fortnight, but is now getting about again, and in a few days will be able to resume work. These (six) are all the cases of fever on the station at present, and the blacks seem in a much more cheerful mood than when I visited them a month ago. There is also a case of dysentery to report—Annie, a married woman. She was one of a few that left through dread of the fever, and also to save their dogs, and the exposure for a few nights in the bush brought on the attack, when both her and her husband returned to the station. She is in a low state, but is well cared for, and with the treatment she is now under I think her life will be saved. 25 .

I went through all the huts on the station. They were all fairly clean, and many of them very tidy. The children's dormitories and bedding are also clean and in good order. I saw them at supper and breakfast. They had substantial meals, and conducted themselves most orderly. I was also present at evening and morning prayers; there were about seventy blacks present (children and adults), and all behaved with strict propriety. I examined the stores and found them (as in my last) good. Mr. Green's health has improved much since I was last up, and in a short time he will be quite well. In reference to the dog nuisance—a very large proportion of the dogs have been destroyed; I only counted six on the station, and even on that account it is much cleaner. It will be necessary to forward an ounce of quinine, as the present stock is nearly out. Referring to my last report, it will be seen there is a very great improvement in the present, and, from appearance, I expect that in a very short time I will be able to present a clean bill of health. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary to Central Board for Protection to the Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, 79th August, 1867. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on the 8th instant. There were then on the station seventy-eight Aborigines. I have to report that the low intermittent fever that has prevailed during the past four months has now disappeared. However, there are five cases of influenza fever and one of dysentery. The following is a list of those ill :—Jamie irombat, Simon, Ellen, Bobbie Hollis, and Minnie, all ill of influenza fever, and Timothy of dysentery. Your superintendent, Mr. Green, although recovered from the fever, is still very weak, and it will be some time before he is sufficiently strong to travel. In my last I reported Mrs. Green's illness ; the Board will be glad to know that she is now quite recovered. Thomas Harris, the white servant, also reported sick, is now quite well and has resumed work. I inspected the children. There are thirty-five living with Mr. Green at the school-house, and three with their parents ; twenty-one of these are boys, and seventeen girls ; four are under five years and thirteen under ten years old. They were all clean and in good health, and appear cheerful and content. Their dress, a single over-all of strong tweed, is perhaps sufficiently warm for them, being so shortly reclaimed from a state of nudity ; but being all shoeless is, at least throughout the winter, a great hardship, and is the cause of much sickness among them. I would suggest to the Board the necessity of giving them one pair of boots in the year, which, with care, would carry them through the cold weather. The boys now sleep in the, new dormitory, which is a very convenient arrangement, and the girls have those attached to the school-room. These latter are very good for the purpose ; but a small portion of the lining is of hardwood boards, which have so shrunk that there are large spaces between them, rendering them useless as a lining, and making it impossible to keep them free from bugs. I would strongly urge the necessity of re-lining these parts and painting the whole. This is absolutely required to get rid of the nuisance referred to. The huts of the adult people are in a fair state of cleanliness ; but many of them, having been up for a considerable time, are becoming a very poor defence from the wind, although they are mostly proof against rain. I suggested this to your zealous superintendent, and also the necessity of cutting a good drain along the front of the huts. There is also a complete absence of privy accommodation for the Aboriginal adults, and although their habits in this respect are cleanly and peculiar, I think it is now time that there should be the usual conveniences. The medicine-chest will require replenishing with the following drugs :—Laudanum, 8 ozs.; basilicon ointment, 7 lb.; paregoric, 8 ozs. ; quinine, 7 oz. Your newly-appointed assistant, Mr. Lang, had arrived at the station a few days prior to my visit, and was reorganizing the school while I was there. In conclusion I may just add that the Aborigines on the station appear content and cheerful, and the order and discipline reflect much credit on your superintendent. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protecting the Aborigines

SIR, Flemington, 15th November, 1867. I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to Coranderrk Aboriginal station on the 8th instant. Tommy Hobson, an Aboriginal man, had been attacked with rupture of a hydatid sac in the lungs, and had several large discharges therefrom during the previous three days, which had produced sinking and complete prostration. The discharges in the large quantities and the bleeding have now ceased, and as he is a careful man, he has a fair chance of recovery. His but is a comfortable one, and he is well tended by his wife, who, as well as himself, is a very intelligent black. Another case also demanding immediate' attention was Rosa, a married woman, suffering from urethral obstruction. She had been ill for several days, but is now comfortable, and has every prospect of being well in a few days. Connelly, a boy about nine years old, is suffering from influenza fever ; but with the care of your superintendent, I have no doubt a few days will bring him round. I now made a general inspection of the station, and, with the exception stated, they are all in good health. There are seventy-six blacks on it at present. These consist of forty-one children and thirty-five adults. Of the children, twenty-one are boys and twenty girls. They may be classified as follows :—Under five years old, six ; from five to seven years, four ; above seven years, thirty-one ; total, forty-one. Of the adults, twenty are able men, one aged man, and fourteen women. The whole of the children and several of the women attend the day school, and a good proportion of the men the evening school. The children are making fair progress under Mr. Lang, your lately appointed teacher, who seems earnest in his work. No. 47, c. 26 The school-room and dormitories attached are clean and orderly ; but I would again-urge on the Board the necessity of re-lining a portion of their interior and painting as mentioned in my last report. This is indispensable to keep down the bug nuisance The boys' dormitory is also clean and orderly. The bedding of both Theis clean huts and on thein good station order. are in various conditions. Those occupied by the oldest, settlers are tidy and clean and tolerably comfortable ; but the more recent arrivals have very simple and primitive arrangements, although throughout the whole there is a marked improvement in cleanliness ; but there is still one or two of this second class that require improvement. Drainage —Since my last visit the drains indicated have been opened up, and although not yet com- pleted, are so far forward as to be of great service to the camp. The piggery is being extended and improved. The stable and stockyard being situated on rising ground above the camp, although at • a• considerable distance from the creek, still, in wet weather its drainage must flow into and vitiate that pure stream, which only water supply. 'As the buildings referred to are of a temporary character, it would be well that is their a less'objectionable site were selected for more permanent erections. Stores.—These are well arranged in the new store-room, which, of itself, is a great acquisition to the station ; they consist of flour, tea, sugar, tobacco, salt, potatoes, and corned meat. They are all sound and good.,Crops.—These consist of wheat, oats and potatoes, and at present look very prosperous. In addition * to these, I may add, there is a large stock of green veahtableS in the garden which are in daily use. The extent of ground under crop is considerably increased last season, notwithstanding the severe epidemic which so completely prostrated the station during the first half of the present year. The appearance of the blacks is both cheerful and comfortable, and the management of the whole reflects much credit on your superintendent. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. R. B. Smyth, Esq., Secretary, Central Board for Protecting Aborigines. Flemington, z+th December, 1867. SIR, I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to the .A.borigilial station at Coranderrk on the 8th instant to see Tommy Hobson, who I reported suffering from hydatids in my last letter to you. The excitement consequent on the attack produced irregular action of the heart, resulting in dropsical effusions over the lower parts of the body. . This has so much reduced his strength, and is also of so urgent a character, that he requires more active treatment than could be obtained without constant medical super- vision ; I therefore ordered his immediate removal to the Melbourne Hospital, as affording him the only chance of relief. At the same time I went over the station, and have to report the whole (with the above exception) in good health, and the general appearance of the place clean and orderly. I have the honor to be, Sir, R. B. Smyth, Esq , Your most obedient servant, Secretary, Central Board for Protecting the Aborigines. J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Flemington, z8th February, 1868. SIR, I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to the station at Coranderrk on the zoth instant to attend Connelly, an Aboriginal boy about ten years old. He has been in a sickly state for some time past, and is suffering from tubercular disease of the abdominal glands (tabes mesenterica) together with St. Vitus' dance (chorea), and is in a low sinking state. I advised for his relief, and although the more severe symptoms may be very much alleviated, a successful termination to the case can scarcely be anticipated. I am happy in being able to state that, with this exception, there is no case of sickness on the station, and that it is clean and orderly, and the Aborigines seem contented and happy, although, since the fever of last year, their number has been very much reduced, those who left in dread of it not having returned. There were seventy-three on the station at my visit ; but I am glad to observe that there is no diminution of the- children at school, and that the deficiency is in adults only. This is all the more satisfactory to the Board, as they have now a settled teacher, and the instruction of the children has not been interrupted. The children's dormitories, including beds and bedding, were clean and orderly, and the whole arrangements are very creditable to your superintendent. I have the honor to be, Sir, R. B. Smyth, Esq., Your most obedient servant, Secretary, Central Board for Protection to Aborigines. J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Flemington, z8th April, 1868. I have the honor to report that I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on the r rth instant. I am glad to be able again to report the station in good health, as, with the exception of the boy Connelly, who was ill at my last report, there is no case of sickness at present. Connelly, a boy about ten years of age, is still suffering from tubercular disease of the abdominal glands, and although the more urgent symptoms have been much relieved, is still in a declining state. There are on the station seventy-five Aboriginals in all; thirty-five of these are adults, five infants, and thirty-five children attending school. The progress of the children in reading, writing, and arithmetic is good. Mr. Lang, your school- master, also teaches them music, and they now sing with great taste. With two or three exceptions, they look strong, and are all in good health, clean, and orderly. The school-room and dormitories, including beds and bedding, are also clean and in good order. The huts occupied by the adults, with the exception of three very primitive ones, are in a fair state of order and cleanliness. There have been several marriages since my last report ; and I am glad to see a marked improvement in the internal arrangements of the huts occupied by the newly-married couples. 27

I inspected the stores; consisting of flour, tea, sugar, salt beef, and potatoes ; they are all of good quality and sound. In view of the whole, the blacks appear contented and happy, and have an amount of comfort which might bear favorable comparison with many of their white brethren. There has been a considerable amount of work done lately, as fencing and grubbing, &c., and the fencing is done in a very substantial way, and the progress of they station, is very creditable to your superin- tendent. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protection to the Aborigines. P.S.—Would you please forward to the station z lb. tinctura ferri sesquichloridi. The boy Connelly is using this, and the present supply is nearly exhausted.—J.G.

SIR, Flemington, 26th May, 1868. I am in receipt of yours of the zoth, calling my attention to a letter enclosed of the 15th instant, respecting the case of Connelly, an Aboriginal boy, who has been under my treatment at Coranderrk for some time past. As you are aware, from my report of 28th February, I made a special visit to the station to attend this boy on zoth February. My report of him then was, "Connelly, an Aboriginal boy, ten years old, has been in a sickly state for some time past, and is suffering from tubercular disease of the abdominal glands (tabes mesenterica) together with St. Vitus' dance (chorea), and is in a sinking state. I advised for his relief, and although the more severe symptoms may be very much alleviated, a successful termination to the case can scarcely be anticipated?' Again on 11th April, as also reported to you, I made an ordinary visit, and in reference' to this boy my report was—" With the exception of Connelly, who was ill at my last report, there is no case of sickness on the station. He is still suffering from the same complaint, tubercular disease of the -abdominal glands, and although much relieved is still in a declining' state." , At my first 'visit to him he was in the boys' dormitory, lying on a bed with a woollen shirt on, and covered with an ordinary colored blanket, and another lad slept with him: I suggested the necessity of a separate bed, and he was thereon removed to a separate room; built some time ago for hospital purposes, and at my last visit I found him there on a bed, dressed in the same way, and with the same covering, and an opossum rug over- all. As to his diet, .he was represented to me as eating greedily, and my instructions to your superintendent were any light nourishing food, as light broth, beef tea, arrowroot, &c., with wine and spirits. I also ordered the requisite medicines. As to his nursing while in the dormitory, one of the older boys attended him under the supervision of Mr. Green and his assistant, but , since his removal to the hospital his mother lives with him ; but of course he is still under the same 'supervision. The case is necessarily long and lingering, and I,am not surprised at the statement that he is pros- trated to the last degree, as he was so at my first visit, and I feel confident had he not been cared for and treated not only medically, but with nourishing diet and stimulants, he could not have lived to this time. In fine, at the time of my visit, he was very comfortably placed, and appeared to be under the anxious supervision of your superintendent, and I can only express my surprise that any person on the station could have supposed him under no medical care, - and not have communicated that fact to Mr. Green or yourself. In reference to the other matters in Mr. Weigall's communication, as they are aside from fact I need not say a word. I have the honor to be, Sir, R. B. Smyth, Your most obedient servant, Secretary, Central Board for. Protection to Aborigines. J. GIBSON.

SIB, Flemington, 7th July, 1868. I have the honor to report that I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on the 3oth ult. There were seventy-seven Aboriginals on the station ; of these, forty-three are males and thirty-four females. . The whole may be classified as under :- Males—Adults ... ... 21 Females—Adults ... ... 17 From iz to 16 years 9 From tz to 16 years 6 ,) 5 to tz „ i 1 ,, 5 to 1 z 7 9 7 Under 5 years ... 2 Under '5 years 4 — — 43 34 Of the twenty-one male adults, eighteen are able men: The health of the station continues good, as, with the exception of the boy Connelly, who is continuing to sink and the widow of Tommy Hobson, who is suffering from exposure post parturiam, there is no other serious case of illness. Hannah, a baby nine months old, is suffering from teething fever, and Mary, a girl fifteen years of age, is ill of indigestion, the result of over-eating. • The huts on the station are of every degree, from very good

SIB Flemington, 29th September, r868. I have the honor to report that I visited the station at Coranderrk on the 28th ultimo. Since my last visit there have been two deaths. One of these was the boy Connelly, who has been so long ill ; and the other an adult, Jamie Barbar. Andrew and Dan, two adults, are suffering from inflammation of the lungs ; I advised for their relief, and with ordinary care I expect a recovery, although they will be a long time weak. Harriet, an adult female, is suffering from rheumatism, the result of irregular living ; I also advised for her, and have no doubt she will soon be well. There were eighty-two Aborigines on the station, being five more than on my previous inspection. The health of the station is good, as, with the exception of the three indicated, there is no other case of illness. I inspected the huts. Six of these are comfortable ; but for the others, the bark of which they are built has become so twisted with the weather that they would require rebuilding. In reconstructing them, slabs should be used, and this work should be proceeded with in such a way that they may be rebuilt during the present summer, as by the winter they will not be habitable. To the better class of huts there have been small vegetable garden-plots fenced in and cultivated since my last visit, and they add much to the appearance of the station, and must have a humanising influence on the blacks. There are thirty-six children (say from two to sixteen years) living apart from their parents with Mr. Green. These are all healthy and appear cheerful and contented ; many of them read and write well, and some of them understand the simple rules of arithmetic. The school-room and furniture are in good order, and the dormitories, including beds and bedding, are also clean and orderly. The stores, consisting of flour, tea, sugar, potatoes, fresh meat, bacon, salt, and tobacco, are sound and good. A good site has been chosen for a new piggery, and fencing commenced. This work must not be delayed, as the pigs are increasing and their present position is extremely objectionable. In reference to the discontent among the working part of the community mentioned in my last, I may just say it has been got over, and the work of the station is going on in the usual way ; and I may further add, that a considerable addition has been made to the extent under cultivation, and that the station continues to make good progress. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protection to Aborigines.

SIR, Flemington, 7th December, 1868. I have the honor to report that I made a special visit to Coranderrk Aboriginal station on the sth instant to advise for John Bone, an Aboriginal boy, and one of Mr. Green's own children, and in fact for nearly all on the station, as whooping-cough has attacked all the children and most of the adults. Mr. Green's own family are all very ill with it ; two of them are dangerously so, and indeed one, a girl about five years old, I scarcely expected would survive the night I spent there. However, she was somewhat better in the morning, but is still in a very precarious state. His eldest boy (about ten years old) is very ill and confined to bed. 29

The Aboriginal boy, John Bone, is in a very low condition, having inflammation of the lungs as well as whooping-cough ; but although very dangerously ill, with care he may get better. The other cases are severe, but not complicated with any other chest affection, and with proper attention and the favorable period of the year may all get well. I directed the treatment for the whole, and have the honor to request that you will please forward the undermentioned medicines in addition to those I recommended last week, as they are urgently required :—Powdered rhubarb, 8 ozs.; powdered jalap, 8 ozs.; quinine, i oz.; aqua ammonia fortissimm, I lb. Mr. Green stated to me that he was under orders to proceed at once on a journey for the Board. When you know the trying circumstances in which he is placed at present with his family, I know if it is practicable you will allow him to remain at home a few days till his family are so far through the present affliction. I was requested by Mr. Green to state his case for your consideration, that he might be relieved for a short time. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protection to Aborigines.

Sm, Flemington, 7th January, 1869. I have the honor to report that I visited the Aboriginal station at Coranderrk on the 29th ultimo. Since my last visit, one child (baby Hobson, four months old) has died from the whooping-cough. I am sorry to say that it still prevails throughout the station, but its force is considerably abated, and from the favorable period of the year, I do not expect that it will now cause much more concern. Mr. Green's own family, on whom it was very severe, are now all convalescent. I may also add that every case on the station is in the same favorable state. Work on the farm has been resumed, and the business of the school has also commenced again. Mr. Green was not at home at my visit, having gone two days previously to Gippsland. I went over the station with Mr. Lang. There were on the station sixty- five Aboriginals, who may be classified as follow Men • • • II Girls from 16 to 20 years 6 Lads from 16 to 20 years • • • 4 Girls about io years ... 3 Boys from ito to 16 years • • • 13 Girls from 5 to 10 years 4 Boys from 5 to to years... • • • 5 Girls under 5 years ... 3 Boys under 5 years • • • 3 Women • • • 13 65

The huts were clean and orderly, five of them were very clean and tidy, and in good repair. The greater part of them have now small kitchen-gardens attached, and they are in a very fair state of cultivation. I inspected the children's dormitories, including beds and bedding ; they were clean and in good order; the children are also clean and cheerful, although many of them are still suffering from the cough. I also inspected the stores, consisting of flour, rice, tea, sugar, beef (salt and fresh), potatoes. tobacco, and salt ; they are all good and sound. The wheat crop was nearly all in stack at my visit, and it is both large and good. The oat and potato crops also look well, and promise to be very abundant. The pigs have been removed to the new piggery, which is well situated, and they are in a thriving condition. From what I have already said, it will be almost unnecessary for me to add that, with the exception of the whooping-cough (and it is now on the decline), the station is in a very satisfactory condition. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protection to Aborigines.

Sm, Flemington, 26th April, 1869. Having visited the station at Coranderrk frequently during the past four years, it has occurred to me that an attempt should now be made to settle some of the Aborigines on the land. The present system, however necessary and useful in the first instance, seems, if continued, to be only capable of neutrializing itself, as those who have had all the advantages of training and civilizing under your superintendent's special care, and separated from the full grown, and I believe, in a great measure, uncivilizable portion of the natives, are (as they attain maturity) being gradually thrust into the general camp, thereby placing them at once with this untaught portion, and introducing them to all their ways and habits. It has suggested itself to me that were there a system of placing the young and educated portion of this community on small holdings, say ten to fifteen acres, giving them assistance to build a house, fence, and in the first instance to plough and sow the land : this, while it would avert the contaminating influences referred to, would also hold out to them the stimulus of independence, and be conducting your present efforts to that desirable issue. As to the details of the plan, these will readily suggest themselves to you—such as grass for a cow and horse, and rations till their crops are gathered ; all operations to be under the approval of your superintendent, with a distinct understanding that any want of care of the crops, or neglect to cultivate, would forfeit their holding. Should your Board think favorably of this suggestion, I have no doubt Mr. Green could easily select two couples to make a trial with, and that would be sufficient for the purpose. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, R. B. Smyth, Esq., J. GIBSON, M.R.C.S., Ed. Secretary, Central Board for Protection to Aborigines. 30

APPENDIX IV.

In October, 1866, Mr. R. D. Scott reported as follows upon the condition of the Aborigines who were then at Camperdown :— The blacks receive supplies regularly once a week when they apply ; . less than the ordinary ration satisfies them. They indulge as much as ever in intoxicating drink. It is difficult to find out how they obtain it, and it appears to me most difficult to take steps to prevent it. They occasionally resort to their Aboriginal habits in hunting, fishing, &c., but the greater part of their time seems spent about villages. In the sheep-shearing season they make themselves generally useful about stations. I regret to say that I observe but little or no change in their social or moral progress, and again express my conviction that this end would have been better obtained by placing them under the charge of persons who would be responsible for their care and management, and if necessary, especially with their children, to use reasonably coercive means. There are now but few at Camperdown, and I think those are worthy of some sort of building to shelter them in the cold wet nights common to this locality. The natives havebeen away from Camperdowlifor a length of time until recently.

No rations have been sent to Camperdown for the blacks since 1866.

Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Longerenong, Wimmera, in August, 1866, states :— .., Aborigines in this neighborhood, I regret that I cannot report any improvement. Regarding the condition of the. being in robust health. At shearing time some of the men are employed picking They do very little work, few of them • up fleeces in the woolshed, for which they receive ten shillings per week and rations. Some time ago the principal family of them built a comfortable log hut, and feneed)aiad trenched a small garden ; but owing to the death of one (Albert) they discontinued their residence in it, and it is now occupied by a splitter, who has paid a few shillings for the place." The stores are distributed as required, generally about twice a week. The quantity varies greatly, according to the numbers who may be here. The supplies of tea, sugar, and tobacco were exhausted for some weeks before the new stock arrived. The clothes are distributed to those most in need. All the Government stores are given unconditionally, except that they are not to be sold. No work is asked on account of them ; indeed, it would be useless to expect any from most of them. The lubras sometimes fish, and the men hunt the opossum, kangaroo, emu, &c., also shoot ducks, turkeys, &c. Payment in money is the only inducement that will make them exert themselves much, and in general they •are ready to spend it in buying intoxicating drinks. Their means of procuring these are fortunately very limited. The notice bearing on this subject has been posted at the hotels in the neighborhood, and any black getting drunk is prohibited from coming near theTheir station numbers for a time. are fast decreasing—there are no young women and no children in the tribe. The youngest is about age. Four have died during the last twelve months. In a few years their race will be extinct. They are onthirty the years'ofwhole as comfortable as their habits will permit. The rations served out are probably about one-half of what is necessary to sustain them, which leaves sufficient inducement to exert themselves in hunting, &c. and prevents want in case of sickness. Food and clothing appear to be common property with them. Food procured and cooked by one is eaten without asking leave by any other, without objection by the owner. Clothing given to one will usually he seen in the possession of another in a few days. prospect of improvement in their condition. They seem to be a doomed race. In no On the wholeexperience, I cannot have see anythey been badly treated by Europeans, and still they are silently disappearing from the instance, in my prevent this, the least, we should do in taking possession of their country lands that once had no other owner. If we cannot is to make their declining years as comfortable as their habits will allow. Mr. A. M. Musgrove, at Warrnambool, reported in September, 1866, on the state of the Aborigines in the following words :— within the past twelve months. think the general condition of the Aborigines has improved IThe do notstores are only occasionally distributed, except to the old people,: to whom they are pretty regularly served out, lb. sugar, x pannikin rice, z pannikins flour, r pannikin oatmeal, i plug say about three times a month viz., t lb. of tea, x tobacco. To those who are able to work I give out as little and as seldom as I possibly can, and always impress upon them that they should provide for themselves out of the money they can earn potato-dropping and shearing. drunkenness among They will drink whenever they get the chance, but, I must say, lately I have not seen so much them ; but this I attribute to the police being a little sharper, and the fact that they have had no work to suit them, con- sequently no money to spend, and I am only afraid when sheep-washing and potato-digging again commence, their drinking propensities will do likewise are compelled now to eat an occasional When they can get anything else they certainly will not hunt, but they " opossum," beef and mutton not being quite as plentiful. In September, 1866, Mr. James Young, of Bacchus Marsh, reported— blacks who have visited this district at one report, which extended to July, x865, the largest number of , Since my last number remained here a fortnight ; since then I have had occasional visits from two or three at a time was fifteen.only That been one case of, drunkenness brought before the police bench. There has been one death, an old time. There has lubra, apparently about eighty years old. provided for them by I am happy to say that their conduct upon the whole has been good, and that, with the clothing and what they procure themselves, they seem pretty comfortable. the Government rations from a store at contract price. I have Theno doubt blacks that are therenow suppliedwill be a with considerable saving effected by supplying them with weekly rations as required, by order on the store, instead of sending annual supplies, as formerly,by the from Central Melbourne. Board for, the supply of clothing, blankets, and In conclusion, I think that the regulations adopted rations are very satisfactory. In July0866, Mr. Peter Beveridge reported upon the blacks at Swan Hill as follows:— The state of the blacks this season is, I think, better than it usually is at this time of the year; this is, in a great measure, attributable to the good supply of clothing they have had during the last year, as ailments of a pulmonary nature seem to be what they are prone to, and good food and plenty of clothing is the best preventive of that insidious disease. The mortality amongst the blacks during the past year has been seemingly large; but then it must be taken into consideration that all who have died during that time were either long-confirmed invalids or old men who had seen their three-score-and-ten. I think that altogether there may have been six or seven.

In September, 1867, Mr B W Gummow reported as follows upon the condition of the Aborigines at Swan Hill -- The general condition of the Aborigines is better than for some years past, there being less disease and mortality. The stores forwarded by the Central Board have been of a very excellent quality. The mode of distribution has been by requisition, giving the names of adults and children but supplied only to those in whom I could place the confidence that they would be properly distributed without exactions. • The blacks at Swan Hill receive their rations on Monday, weekly, unless some sick ones arrive ; then according to their requirements. On the various stations the stores are forwarded and issued, I believe, with proper discretion, in quantities in propor- tion to their numbers. They hunt native game extensively, and fish likewise, of which there is abundance continually. They indulge in intoxicating liquors to a fearful extent. They have been arrested and imprisoned, their supply of rations temporarily stopped, and the greatest displeasure shown as to their misconduct. In conclusion, with regard to their propensity for swallowing strong drinks, I think it is their chief vice, and I am disposed strongly to believe that the indulgence of the Central Board tends strongly to assist this evil. Blacks' are very fond of tea, sugar, and tobacco, which we may class among the luxuries of their existence, but so long as they are supplied with such articles they will not spend the money they earn otherwise than in strong drinks. Alluding to the money they earn, let me inform the Board that each able-bodied black could receive four or five shillings a day on this township for his fish or game. I have frequently offered, and been refused, to purchase ducks at one shilling each. No, they prefer the publican's market, where they obtain adulterated spirits and spend the night to the annoyance of the neighborhood with their drunken orgies, the poor gins hiding their spears and waddles to avoid bloodshed, often having to seek the protection of my premises from their fury and madness. ' Gins, with their heads cut by blows from waddies, fingers knocked off, are not unfrequent, perhaps more since they are afraid of making known such brutality for fear perhaps of some worse calamity befalling them. This unhappy state of things does not apply to every individual amongst them ; there are some who would not touch spirits, but they suffer and are coerced. It is sometimes attended with danger to interfere with them, as their savage nature is then fully shown. Police have done what they could, but they escaped over the river in their canoes and set them at defiance. Nothing will ever put a stop to this evil until Parliament pass a clause in the Publican's Act making it punishable to any individual supplying them with intoxicating drinks, in a summary way, to the extent of a £50 penalty or six months' imprisonment, and that the evidence of Aborigines should be considered as prima facie. Under the present state of things it is worth the publican's while to risk conviction for the remuneration he obtains by selling adulterated and diluted spirits. At the present time I am writing this, every able-bodied blackfellow is now engaged either washing sheep or shearing, for which they get the wages of a white man—the old men, the gins, and children getting rations from the squatters. The sums spent in drink are something considerable. As matters rest things will become worse. 'Constables or magistrates will not incur the odium and revenge necessarily following an attempt to bring the parties offending to justice, where the penalty is so small. Adequate imprisonment or fine should be inflicted, and that should be optional with the bench. Blankets and flour, I think, would form the best stores that could be sent. Soap is an article that I have reason to believe is disposed of and not used.

Mr. Allan Hughan, when he resided at Youngera station, Swan Hill district, had charge of the Aborigines, and in September, 1866, he wrote as follows :- I consider that the condition of the blacks here has very much improved during the past year. The young men continue most useful and faithful servants. I have not known of one instance of intoxication during the past nine months. The habits of the young people, especially with regard to the young women, seem much improved. Most of them hunt and fish during the respective seasons when not otherwise engaged, i.e., in regular work. I have observed some distress amongst the Aborigines when sick or disabled at other places Many apply to me for "physic." Only to-day, when at an adjoining station, one fine old fellow pleaded sadly the want of medicine, wishing he was here. He was suffering from a severe cold. I wished he was well enough to come up here and receive some attention. A few weeks since I had a poor blackfellow suffering from paralysis brought up here from a camp eight miles away. I had no hope of him, but I made him as comfortable as possible, and provided him with suitable food, soup, maizena, rice, &c., and I wrote to Melbourne for medical advice ; but he gradually sank and died a fortnight since. With their usual care, they buried him and his clothes, and erected a neat structure of bark over him. During his illness, it was most pleasing to observe the real kindly care exhibited to him by the other blacks, the more especially so as none were related to him. The shearing season has now commenced, and many of the blacks are excellent shearers. I saw four engaged to-day, and soon hope to have a larger number shearing for myself. One of the four said to me to-day, "Please keep me a place in your shed, Mr. Hughan," which I willingly promised. I much fear that many of the blacks will, after shearing, follow only too faithfully the example of other shearers ; but I will exert my utmost to deter those under my more immediate control from going to the public-house. On giving a .Ei note to the chief this morning for cutting me some canoes and bark, he was much pleased and said : " By-and-bye mine buy em flour along (with) a this one, bael mine want em grog." This was spontaneous and sincere. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Of the clothing last furnished I still possess a large share, owing to so many of the blacks working for me upon wages, which I induce them to spend in clothing rather than to reserve it for the publican.

The following was Mr. C. E. Strutt's report on the Aborigines in September, i866, at Echuca :— Respecting the general condition of the Aborigines, I have to report that no material alteration has taken place in their habits during the last year. . The blankets and clothing are distributed on a day of which due notice has been given to the Aborigines beforehand. Those who attend are supplied accordingly, and the remainder of the articles, if any, are reserved for cases of sickness or emergency. I regret to state that the Aborigines are still as anxious as ever to procure intoxicating liquors. The great increase in the number of public-houses in Echuca renders it more difficult to ascertain the source of supply ; the police, however, have prosecuted six individuals for this offence during the past twelve months, and as four convictions were obtained, the practice is in some degree checked. The Aborigines occasionally catch fish and opossums, and shoot wild-fowl. The main sustenance, however, is derived from the settlers' stations, where they get the coarser pieces of meat, and occasionally rations, when they help in any useful way. 32

The flour, tea, sugar, &c., supplied by the Government, are issued in small quantities as required, for two or three days' consumption. There is less fighting and disturbance amongst the Aborigines than formerly, as all cases of assault are dealt with summarily by short imprisonments of a few days. In only one instance has it been necessary to send an Aboriginal to Sandhurst gaol, for assaulting a woman, during the past year. These assaults take place as a result of intoxication ; in other respects the blacks are well conducted, only one having been committed to gaol for theft. During shearing the blacks are generally employed on the stations, and their conduct is good. Two half-caste children have been forwarded to the station near Healesville (Coranderrk), in August last.

Mr. C. E. Strutt, P.M. at Echuca, in September, 1867, reported as follows :- The general condition of the Aborigines in this district continues without any material alteration. Most of the clothing has been distributed amongst the Aborigines with such occasional supplies of flour, tea, sugar, &c., as appeared to be required. The latter articles are obtained in small quantities at a time. The Aborigines occasionally employ themselves in hunting native game, fishing, and shooting ; but at this season of the year, they remain chiefly about the woolsheds of the various stations, where they are employed to assist in picking and washing wool, and occasionally in shearing and taking charge of the sheep. The Aborigines are as fond as ever of intoxicating liquors. Four men, named "Bob," "Tommy," "Wharparella Jack," and "Tallyho," with one woman named "Bumbo," have been brought by the police before this bench on different occasions, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and have been imprisoned for short periods. On the 7th March last, a publican was fined five pounds for allowing spirits to be obtained for the blacks at his licensed house, which has had the effect of rendering it more difficult to procure a supply.

In October, 1866, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, of Tangambalanga, near Yackandandah, reported as follows on the condition of the Aborigines :- I am sorry to inform you that their general condition has not improved during the last twelve months, in consequence of the scarcity of native game, fish, &c , attributable in a great measure to their vicinity to the diggings and free selectors ; in fact, the stores alone prevent the blacks from starving. In conclusion, I beg to state that they still indulge in intoxicating liquors, but their want of means prevents too frequent indulgence. Two deaths have occurred amongst them, viz., " Tiger Joe" and " Simon ;" the former was accidentally drowned, and the latter died from natural causes. The number of Aborigines at this station is twenty-seven, viz., ten men, thirteen women, and four children. During the winter, when they suffer much from sickness, the following quantities are distributed monthly, viz.- = lbs. flour, 8 lbs. sugar, 4 lb. tea, lb. tobacco, and r lb. soap, and to each (women included) blankets, clothing, and tomahawks.

In November, 1867, Mr. Mitchell reported that no change had taken place in the condition of the Aborigines since his last report.

Mr. William Dennis, who was honorary correspondent at Carr's Plains, reported as follows on the general condition of the Aborigines in September, 1866 :- During the last year there has been less sickness than in previous ones. I do not attribute this to any particular improvement in the condition of the blacks, but from the mildness of the season, they have been less subject to colds, &c. My practice is to distribute rations on Saturday, and if they run short during the week by giving to strangers, they are usually given an additional supply. The weekly ration is 4 lbs. flour, r lb. sugar, 2 ozs. tea, r stick of tobacco. The three last articles are often supple- mented, as there is rarely any left after Wednesday. I have not seen any of my blacks intoxicated during this year that I am aware of, but I would not intimate that their liking for spirits is at all less than formerly. The only means taken to prevent them from drinking has been to request the innkeepers not to sell to them, and the police to see that they do not. Occasionally they hunt, but rarely, unless hunger compels them, do they seek either fish or game.

There is very little change in their habits ; they wander as formerly, and as a rule they are irregular workers. I have a bullock-driver who has been with me eighteen months, rarely has he been off the station. He spends his wages in clothes, and in purchasing additional comforts for those who are encamped at the place. All the others are very uncertain. " Blind Jenny " is near her confinement ; her last child was still-born. There are now here two boys, four girls, ten women, and eight men. One of the latter is a cripple, another blind, three women are very lame, one cannot walk. There are six women and children who can read, sing, and sew pretty well—this is the extent of their accomplishments.

Mr. H. H. Wettenhall, who has succeeded Mr. W. Dennis, as honorary correspondent at Carr's Plains, reported as follows on the Aborigines in September, 1867 :— There are only nine blacks here just now, two of them helpless women, and one crippled man ; one man, two women, and three children. It is seldom there are so few ; the others are away visiting. Four have died the last year—two men and two women, about middle age ; they were unwell some time, and had medical attendance, physic, &c. One boy, about twelve years old, by name Billy Dennis, Mr. Dennis had taken down to the lower station at Mortlake, where he is receiving instruction, and I enclose a small letter written by him to an old lubra up here. This winter, two of them have built themselves nice bark huts. The stores are all good, and they are distributed weekly. They do not hunt much, except opossum. There are no fish. I believe they do get intoxicated when they visit the townships, &c., but never on the station.

The Aborigines at Geelong are under the care of Messrs. J. 5M. Garratt and Charles Read, and in September, 1866, Mr. Garratt reported as under :- The stores are distributed periodically under the supervision of Mr. Charles Read, my colleague correspondent taking care as much as possible to induce the blacks to go out of town to consume them. Indeed, Mr. Read has supplied one of the neighboring farmers, who appears a trustworthy man, with rations for the use of the natives who camp on and around his homestead, so that they may have as little inducement as possible to visit the town at all. Ten years ago the number of the Geelong blacks was considerable, now only four males remain as a wretched remnant of a once powerful tribe. One man, Billy, died during the year, the particulars of whose death were duly reported at the time. Intoxicating drink is still their bane, and notwithstanding that every effort is made to deter publicans and others from supplying liquor, it almost invariably happens that a visit to Geelong is accompanied by a drunken bout, ending in a night in the lock-up. We are utterly at a loss to recommend any plan, the adoption of which would in any material degree lessen this evil, and, however sad it may appear to have to say it, we are forced to report our decided conviction that nothing but complete extinction awaits, not merely the Geelong tribe, but all the neighboring families of Aborigines also.

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We would report with very great pleasure an instance of kindness on the part of our blackfellows which proves them to be susceptible of fine and noble instincts and feelings. The case is as follows :—A child, two years old, was lost at the Little River ; diligent search was made by the neighbors in vain ; the disconsolate father applied to me for the assistance of the blacks ; they went, and for several days were diligently and intelligently engaged in the search. They were not successful, the poor child never having been found, but the father expressed to me his deep gratitude to these simple, kind- hearted men for their exertions. * * * * * * * * In the matter of clothing, we would suggest that blankets and shirts of some peculiar color and texture should be used so as to prevent the possibility of sale or exchange for drink.

In September, 1867, Mr. J. M. Garratt reported as follows on the general condition of the Aborigines at Geelong :-

Three blackfellows only now remain of the once numerous and powerful Barrabool tribe, viz., Jerry King Dan- dan-ook, Harry, and Billy Gore. On Christmas Day last Timboo was buried. He was the most intelligent of the survivors, having learned English in Mr. Tuckfield's school years ago. * The three men now left employ their time principally in roaming about the country between here and Queenscliff and the Heads, with occasional visits to Geelong for rations and clothes, which are distributed to them as they require from the stores supplied by the Board, and which are placed under the care of Mr. Charles Read, my fellow-correspondent (Mr. Henry Andrews having left the district). I am pained to have to report that the blacks still indulge in the use of intoxicating drink to a frightful extent when- ever they visit town, and all my vigilance in watching them and giving instructions to the police to lay information against publicans supplying them with drink is unavailing. During a recent visit to Melbourne they were impressed with the notion that they ought to marry, and I fully believe that, if they could be induced to reside on one of the Government establishments and wives supplied, they would be much improved in condition. They are, however, so firmly wedded to their native soil that it is most difficult to induce them to reside anywhere else. These three men are moat warmly attached to myself and Mr. Read, and would do anything for any member of our families. I would strongly urge upon the Board the desirability of getting these three men removed to Mr. Green's establish- ment, as I am certain that unless this can be done a very short time will bring them to death.

Mr. James Finley, of Towaninnie, reported in September, 1867, as follows :- The mode of distributing the stores has been hitherto weekly, and in such quantities as have been in accordance with the strictest economy, to the number of blacks stationed here from time to time. I have generally endeavored to average sour at the rate of 7 lbs. per week for each adult, and other stores accordingly. As regarding their procuring game or fish, it is a very rare occurrence, inasmuch as the game in this part of the country is exceedingly scarce, the country being, for the most part, composed of plains ; and of fish there is none, as there are no rivers or creeks here with permanent water. Regarding their indulgence in spirits, I am happy to inform you that their conduct is unquestionable, as drunkenness is almost totally unknown here. With respect to their progress, &c., I am happy to state that they appear to be very comfortable and reside together in harmony, and during the season of the year when they can obtain employment such as they can do, they willingly accept of it, and the proceeds of such labor is generally spent in procuring any little necessary article of clothing, as their ambition is to appear as decent as possible. In November, 1866, Mr. Alexander Wilson, of Vectis, reported favorably of the Aborigines who reside on the station. The following is an extract from his report :— The native, "Sandy," has built a hut, and his wife keeps it as neat as any white woman. She is a woman of good character, and in consequence has had two children in sixteen months ; and I have no doubt she will have plenty more of them. A few more of the Aborigines have been applying to get the team to put up huts for themselves.

Mr. Alexander Wilson, of Vectis, reported in December, 1867, to Mr. Charles Wilson, of Walmer, Horsham, in the following terms as to the condition of the Aborigines :- I beg to state that no deaths have occurred here during the season, neither have there been any births ; the youngest black child on the station is fourteen months old. I cannot report favorably upon the steadiness or sobriety of the natives,. as they are addicted to drink -to a man, and invariably spend all their earnings in this way. The only articles which they will buy are sugar and tobacco—clothing they decline to provide, though they might have the means.

Mr. Andrew Porteous, honorary correspondent at Carngham, reported in October, 1866, on the• condition of the Aborigines as follows :—

The Mount Emu tribe still prefer to roam about in small bands from station to station and the various goldfields, returning at short intervals for a supply of the Board's stores. They still continue to hunt the opossum and make rugs, for which they find a ready sale ; other game is very scarce in the district. The women also continue to make nets and baskets. About eight months ago, the chief of the tribe, with a number of others, visited Coranderrk, and stayed there a few weeks. On his return he described everything that he had seen, and a great improvement on he thought that the arrangements at Coranderrk were the former habits of the blackfellows. Some of the young men of the tribe after seeing, and I suppose practising a little of the industry at Coranderrk, when they returned, were very anxious to get a job of fencing, as they said they could do it as well as the whitefellows. I have since seen some of, them at work fencing, and doing the work very well. The aged of the tribe cannot be- induced to remain at work more than an hour or two at a time. I still continue to supply the Board's stores in small quantities, what will do them for a few days only ; although I have not known any of them to barter away their rations, yet if they had a larger quantity in their possession at one time I believe they would give it away for grog. * There is a slight improvement towards temperance in the tribe, as a number of the greatest drunkards have died, yet some of them would still give almost anything they possess for drink. Blankets and other clothing I have always branded before giving them, and I think this should be always done, or otherwise they will part with the article that is not branded. As a proof of this, a number of the tribe on their way home from Coranderrk were supplied with blankets at Bacchus Marsh, and before they reached Carngham some of them had disposed of them. The number of the tribe at present, as entered in my book, is fifty-seven. In a report dated zoth September, I 8 67, Mr. Andrew Porteous, of Carngham, writes :- The condition of the Aborigines is not much altered since my last report. The tribe at present numbers forty-seven,. namely, twenty-six males and twenty-one females. They continue to hunt such game as can be found in the district. The opossum is plentiful, and they make rugs with the skins. They also fish in such lakes and creeks as fish can be found in They sell the opossum rugs, and sometimes offer fish for sale, with the proceeds of which they supply themselves with rations, and sometimes with clothes, such as hats, handkerchiefs, and some of them with boots. The tribe are seldom together, but travel about froth station to station in bands of six or eight. all No. 47, d. 34

During the month of July last, it being wet and cold, a large number of the tribe camped with me, and the Board's stores were very acceptable, as the weather was such that they could not hunt. Since then they have been travelling amongst the stations, only a few calling for rations. The stores supplied by the Board are all of the best quality, and give great satisfaction to the Aborigines. I have made no change in the manner of distributing stores. Each man receives a blanket, one serge shirt, one twill shirt, and a pair of trousers, and each woman a blanket and one dress ; and to prevent them disposing of any article, I invariably brand each with oil paint. When they are cauiped with me I supply each twice" a week with a small quantity of rations, and when they leave or make a call for rations, I give each about to lbs. of flour and 3 lbs. of sugar, with a proportion of tea, and lb. of tobacco and I lb. of soap. I regret much that I cannot yet inform the Board that the Aborigines have taken any dislike to intoxicating liquors, as whenever they can get it they get intoxicated, yet I do not think that they crave after it so much as they used to do. Perhaps this may be accounted for from the fact that a number of the most intemperate of the tribe have died from its effects, and some of the steady ones frequently tell the others that " blackfellow soon all gone if drink much grog." The tribe is, I believe, as comfortable as they can wish to be; as there are plenty of stores for them when they wish to call ' for them, and during the year there has been no expense incurred for doctors. There has been a little sickness, but a little slight medicine has generally restored them to health. I cannot conclude this report without mentioning the shrewdness of James Miller and David Smith in tracing out what was important evidence against the murderers of Mr. Burke. Having searched out the pistols buried under a log, and tracked the horses to near the spot where the murder took place, they returned home, and James Miller told me that he believed the gold was in Searle's stable, as it had not been properly searched, and that it must be concealed in a drain that ran through the stable. This was on iriday, and I told him and David to take horses, and they could go on Monday and search the stable. Something prevented them going on Monday, and on Tuesday, when on their way, they met Mr. Hill at Smythesdale with the gold taken from the very spot where Miller supposed it to be concealed. It certainly was fortunate that they did not go on Friday to search, or the link of conviction would not have been so complete against the murderers. I have just received a letter from the Borough Council of Buninyong, requesting me to send as many Aborigines as possible to Buninyong, as they are determined to get up a grand coroboree on the arrival of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. I have replied, and pointed out the danger, and even, risk, to the Aborigines' lives to allow them to congregate near any large town. As a proof of this, last summer the' Mount Emu and Hopkins tribe met at Ballarat, and gave a public coroboree, and the consequence was, that the Aborigines got so intoxicated for about a week that two of the Mount Emu tribe died shortly after returning to their district, and many others lingered in a sickly state for months. I have therefore declined to comply with the request, unless sanctioned by the Central Board, and the Board will please say whether the request may be complied with or not. Mr. George Houston, of Gunbower station, reported as follows in September, 1866 :- I regret I cannot give you any pleasing information regarding the Aborigines. They have mostly been working at the neighboring stations for the last' four months, and I have seen little of them. I have been in the habit of distributing your supplies in moderate quantities among them while they lasted, as I have done in previous seasons. The season for fishing and hunting is close at hand, and they will no doubt spend the summer in doing so, as usual.

In September, 1867, in a report Mr. George Houston reported as under :- The condition of the blacks is very much improved. No doubt this is caused greatly by the steps taken by your Board to restrict the supply of liquor to them at the townships, and by the closing of the grog shanty on Mr. Glass' run. There have been no deaths since the beginning of the year, and one child (a female half-caste) has been born about two months ago. The stores and clothing have been finer in quality and sufficient in quantity, and I have not altered the usual method of distribution. In summer and autumn they hunt and fish as usual, and as there is abundance of game in this neighborhood, they assemble here in considerable numbers at these seasons. During the next two months the young men will be mostly employed at the shearing-sheds in the neighborhood. APPENDIX V.

DISTRIBUTION OF STORES F THE USE- OF THE ABORIGINES BY THE CENTRAL BOARD FROM THE IS T AUGUST x865 TO THE ere'r JULY x86

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lbs. lbs: 0 lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. No. No., No. No. No. ,r1. No. No. No. Coranderrk .. ...... 29,700 Soo 140 824 992 67oo 200 • .. 30 15 ...... 6 rack-combs, 3 lbs. candlewick, 3 iron buckets, is tooth-combs, 75 lbs. nails, zoo yds. woollen plaid, 4 lbs. thread, 6 doz. shirt buttons, 0 yds. striped cotton, 36 handkerchiefs, xco yds. -, flannel, 7 lbs. mustard, 2 large teapots, 2 slop-cans, 400 lbs. salt, so axes, zo spades, 6 picks, •. ..‘ 22 cross-cut saw files, 6 hand-saw files, z sets wedges, 8 maul-rings, 6 bullock chains, 6 bows, x wooden plough and extra share, x Yens. (Mission station) ...... ' .. • • set harrows, x dray, I set harness, and medicine, pills, &c...... 36 5o .. 5o xzo yds. linsey woolsey. Mount Cannel • (Mission station) .. ., x0,000 zoo 2000 zoo zoo boo .. 35 35 30 .. go zo zo . • I box pipes, 1 piece calico, 3 lbs. thread, 30o needles, 48 quart pots, 48 pint pots, 24 camp kettles, 36 tomahawks, 36 pocket knives, ;6 combs, 6 spades, 40 yds. towelling, 20 lbs. twine, 48 fishing lines, z gross fish-hooks. . Lake Hindmarish (Mission station) .. .. 26,000 228 2840 75 300 400 100 • 48 48 72 • • 12 /2 36 x barrel peas, roc, yds. linsey woolsey, zoo yds. gingham, 50 yds. flannel, 5o yds. calico, 36 camp g kettles, 36 quart pots, 72, pint pots, 2, galvanized Lake Wellin gton (Mission station) .. 10,000 ■ , iron wash-tabs, 6 tin buckets. .. 250 25oc bo .. 100 so 48 48 36 12 24 12 Is 48 dressing-combs, 48 pocket knives, 36 tomahawks, 6 spades, 36 camp kettles, 72 pannikins, 250 Yackandandah pipes, 5o yds. calico, 4o yds. flannel, 3 lbs. thread, zoo needles. .. ...... 2,500 50 5C0 50 224 50 20 z Birregurra ...... 0 yds. calico, 7 lbs. mustard, x gross pipes, zo tomahawks, 6 pints castor oll, 6 bxs. Holloway's pills. 1,600 So Soo 50 112 SO 50 10 IO 10 .. 4 Dartmoor ' .. 4 • • .. .. 448 22 rm. .: _ 14 12 20 .. 20 20 .. Warrnambool .. ...... 2,000 0 500 25 112 200 112 15 .. IS Longerenong .. 19 19 TO ...... 2,000 100 1000 50 III .. .. 18 z6 24 10 IO II .. . Tyntyndyer .. .. 8,000, 240 2000 150 '224 336 .. 100 100 I00 go So zo go Mordialloc .. 50 •• .. .. Soo 300 28 56 • 3 500 Bacchus Marsh .. .. 2 lbs. fresh beef. .. .. 400 28 224 15 28 .. 56 . 6 6 6 .. 4 4 Camperdown .. .. 2,000 100 1000 • • 4 •• 50 50 50 50 30 30 30 .. 24 24 .. Geelong .... ...... Soo 40 25 12 12 12 12 •• Gunbower, Durham Ox . • • ...... 4000 130 1200 70 112 .. .. 12 36 12 12 Terrick-terrick v 12 .. 12 12 tomahawks. .. • • •.. 3,rno 8o Soo 50 150 •• .. 12 12 I2 • 12 I2 12 .. i Echuca .. • . • • .. .. 25 t- 1,000 60 goo 112 I12 112 • • 4 40 36 24 24 24 12 .. East Charlton •,-.. . • .. .. 2,000 50 5oo , 45 112 100 .. • 15 to 15 .. 10 • Balmoral .. .. .. .. to 6 tomahawks. .. .. •• • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • Carngham .. ...... 2,00 too 1,0co 56 56 .. .. • • • • • • Connewarre .. • • 3,000 30 300 50 212 56 56 24 24 24 .. x6 16 Nareeb-nareeb .. .. 1,500 70 4 • • .. .. 600 go 56 Too .. ;6 12 12 .. 6 .. 22 Walmer, Horsham ...... 4,rno 200 1300 50 ...... Kulkyne .. . . .. .. 2,000 75 300 6o 200 150 .. 3o .. 30 20 Portland .. .. .. IO .. 24 bottles castor oil. .. .. 2,000 So 700 50 56 100 100 zo ...... Hamilton .. .. .. ioo yds. linsey woolsey. Carr's Plains ...... 6,000 100 1300 .. 56 mo .. 12 12 .. .. IS 18 4 .. 12 two-gallon billies, 36 pannikins. Boodcarra, Belfast .. .. 1,200 40 400 36 112 .. .. 18 18 21 3 18 15 . • 24 12 tomahawks, 24 tooth-combs. Boort, Durham Ox ...... 2,000 6o . 350 50 30 .. .. P

Youngera .. .. .. .,:t 2,000 56 448 50 .. 112 .. 30 3o 30 ' .. 3o 3o .. 15 6 bottles castor-oil, 3 boxes Holloway's pills, 3 pots Holloway's ointment. Buangor .. .. ...... 600 zo zoo .. .. zoo .. 12 12 12 Mount Talbot - .. 2 ...... 28 224 25 ...... Lake Condah .. 2 .. •• •• 4,000 105 810 75 224 Hz x12 g 20 20 10 .. 27 Talbot, 20 4 .. Amherst .. .. 600 40 I= 20 20 II2 ;36 6 6 6 .. Roseneath, Casterton .. .. 2,000 50 3 500 z8 56 _ 6 .. 6 3 Pramlingham •• .. .. 2 children's dresses, 2 children's petticoats. .. .. • • 4,000 , 80" goo 58 xxz II2 u2 25 25 25 .. 20 20 .. 20 22 children's dresses, rz children's petticoats, 2 saws, 2 axes, z augers, 2 chisels, 6 wedges, 2 maul- Wirmbirchip, Morton Plains rings, 2 spades, z shovels, z picks. .. ;,000 55 550 28 56 II2 112 27 15 25 .. 10 .. .. 10 liaryrie, Morton Plains ...... Imo 25 250 25 ...... Wyuna, Echuca .. ...... Reidsdale, Wangaratta .. .. 2,000 80 500 15 40 ...... ' Merri Creek, Melbourne .. ,V .. .. zoo . 56 150 28 25 .. •. •• •• •• . • .. .• .. 12 et pannikins, 6 quart billies, 12 tomahawks. Ulupna .. • • ...... 2,000 so 500 28 .. .. F 5 5 Kfilingworth, Yea ...... ,

145,80o 4,006 36,004 1,815- 3,95 1 4,281 1,590 1 ,298 814 655 727 21 545 445 152 244 • DISTRIBUTION OF STORES FOR Tilt USE OF THE ABORIGINES BY THE CENTRAL BOARD FROM TiCB 1ST AUGUST, 1866, TO THE 31ST JULY 1867.

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0 .. 3o r5 ...... 1,048 lbs. salt, roo yards woollen plaid, too yards tweed, 4 lbs. thread, xi gross shirt buttons

zoo NO Join ...... 5 17 4,700 go yards twill flannel, x gross lesson-books and copy-books, 5 gross pens, x ream foolscap, 36 combs, 24 tooth-combs, zoo yards unbleached calico, xoo yards print, 1 gross hooks and eyes, x dozen pieces tape, 25 yards towelling, goo needles, 72 reels cotton, 6 lbs. shingle nails, 6 pairs hinges, 6 chisels, 6 gimlets, x soldering iron, 3 lbs. solder, 6 dozen pannikins, 6 dozen spoons, 6 dozen plates, 2 teapots, x2 milk dishes, r skimmer, x strainer, 6 buckets, 6 c. utensils, ra looking-glasses, 2. pairs scissors, xz lbs. glue, z dung forks, x2 knives and forks, x ten-gallon boiler, 2 pairs window-sashes, 6 bushels lime, x8 feet glass, 6 lbs. whiting, x lb. muriatic acid, I lb. sal ammoniac, 20 pints castor-oil, 8 ozs. tincture iodine, 2 lbs. senna and 8 lbs. salts, o dozen port wine, too yards canvas, zoo 'yards holland, 48 bed screws, 4 washing tubs, 4 boxes Holloway's pills, 4 pots ointment, 6 lbs. chloride of lime, 2.,000 feet timber, 5 lbs. hops go lbs. candles.

0 zo 24 slates, x box pencils, x lb. hops, Frat .. ...... 357 3,100 140 x12 784 560 30 30 30 10 20 20 TO x gross pens, z pint ink, z dozen penholders, 48 lesson-books, i gross shirt buttons, 0 lb. thread, 'coo needles, 12 knives and forks, 12 spoons, x2 plates, 15 lbs, nails, 6 axes, 2 adzes, 6 spades, z shovels, 6 maul-rings, 4 buckets, 2 tubs, x boiler, 2. looking- glasses, 1 frying-pan, 2 chamber utensils, x dozen pannikins, r scoop, x set counter scales, x eel of weights, z pints castor-oil, x lb. senna, x lb. salts, o box Holloway's pills, x box Holloway's ointment.

Felts, (Mission station) .. .. • • ...... • • • • 25. 25 25 . Lake Tyers (Mission station) .. 200 2,000 100 224 224 30 50 50 50 20 40 40 20 .. So yards calico, 6 lbs. thread, 72 combs, 72 fishing lines, 3 gross fish-hooks, 36 pocket knives, 31 pannikins, 36 quart pots, 24 camp kettles.

O 00 barrel peas, zoo yards linsey woolsey, zoo yards gingham, So yards flannel, 5o yards calico Lain Hindmarah (Mission station) .. .. 300 3,000 75 300 400 100 6 78 75 .. x5 .. 12 .. I 36 camp kettles, 36 quart pots, 48 pannikins, 48 tomahawks.

2S0 100 .. 8 • . • •. 12 x2 5o yards calico, woo needles, 40 yards flannel, 3 lbs. thread, 36 combs, 36 knives, 36 tomahawks Lake Wellington (Mission station) .. • • 2,000 I00 200 4 48 54 12 24 24 kettles, 50 pannikins, ago pipes, 050 fish-hooks, 48 fishing lines, x plough, i set harrows x set harness.

Yac] h ...... 40 Soo 40 I50 50 50 8 18 — 08 .. 18 .. 2 .. x gross pipes, 7 lbs. mustard, 6 bottles castor-oil, 4 boxes Holloway's pills and ointment, So yard • calico, oz yards linsey woolsey, 18 tomahawks.

Biro .. • • • • • • So Soo go In roo .. X. 4 4 • • 4 Longerenong .. ...... 75 1,000 go 50 .. .. 18 26 24 .. to IO .. .. 3wan Hill ...... So 500 56 102 .. 102 0 z8 28 .. .. 4 Soo lbs fresh meat. ,for . • .. • • 30 25 OOO 6 6 6 .. Bacchus Marsh .. .. • • 2.8 ' 224 15 28 .. 56 N Peel ong .. .. .. • • .. . Gunbower, Durham Ox ...... roo 1,000 40 II2 SO .. • Perrick-terrick .. .. .. 4o 700 70 112 .. .. : 0 24 24 24 6 oz 12 •• 24 5 lbs. Epsom salts, o2 tomahawks, x2 pannikins, 12 billies, 24 combs, i gross pipes. 100 .. I2 .. 12 Echuca ...... So 300 20 I12 50 t 24 - 24 24 8o boo 25 56 112 112 05 to 15 • ro 00 .. io 6 tomahawks, 12 billies. • East Charlton, Yowen Hill .. Bali ...... • • 4o 200 20 28 .. .. : - - .. •• •• ...... Can gham .. .. • • ioo 0,000 6o 56 .. .. Nareeb-nareeb .. ...... go boo 40 28 .. .. 36 36 36 • • 24 24 •. — 36 pannikins, 18 billies. Walmer, Horsham ...... rthi 12 .. Hamilton .. ...... 15 .. 20 5 12 .. 3 .. i gross pipes. .. 30 .. 30 .. 20 20 7 .. girls' dresses, 6 tomahawks, iz boxes Holloway's pills. gulkyne, Lower Murray .. .. 75 550 65 112 150 tt Can's Plains ".. .. .. III 1,000 56 112 50 .. 18 12 18 .. 18 ...... x2 billies, 12 pannikins.

Boort, Lower Loddon ...... 8o 112 40 zo .. .. • 12 .. 12 .. .. 12 .. .. 1 gross pipes. .. 30 30 20 ro 20 20 xo .. zo dresses for children. Lake Condah .. ...... So 500 40 224 112 0 .. 80 500 30 112 20 20 I2 .. 12 2 4 .. 2 .. 2 dresses for a child, x box pipes, x2 tomahawks, 24 fish-hooks. • Roseneath, Casterton .. .. Wirmbirchip, Morton Plains 50 448 z8 56 1 02 112 00, 10 00 6 .. x5 .. .. 15 Wyuna .. .. • • .. • • 50 450 20 100 .. .. 00 10 10 IO Reidsdale .. ...... iio 1,000 .20 112 .. .. 15 ...... 05 •• .. x2 tomahawks. tllupna, Murray River .. .. . • 8o x,000 30 36 .. 36 .. x8 x8 .. x8 to children's dresses, to children's petticoats. Hillingworth, Yea.. • • . • .. . 00 • • • • • • • • • . .. • . .. Benyeo, Apsley .. • • .. .. 120 1,000 75 II 224 224 Towaninnie .. .. • . 124 900 30 20 .. .. NO 7 7 • • 7 Merri Creek, Melbourne ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • 25 •• 25 •• •• •• •• ••

6 222 90 1 3 1 ,700 3,581 32,270 1,426 3,420 3,076 1 ,738 996 546 454 7 10 65 35 160 DISTRIBUTION OF STORES FOR THE USE OF THE ABORIGINES BY THE CENTRAL BOARD FROM THE IST AUGUST, 1867, TO THE . 31sT JULY, i868.

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No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Coranderrk ...... • • zo,000 68o 6,700 .. 600 Soo 500 45 30 •• 24 _ .. .. 15 •• zozs. quinine, Sozs.laudanum ilb. ointment of resin, Sozs. paregoric, nibs. salts, albs. senna leaves, 6 boxes Holloway's pills, 6 pots Holloway's ointment, 3 augers, 4 hand saws, 6 nail hammers, 300 lbs. nails, 1 hay knife, 4 doz. knives and forks, 4 scrubbing brushes, 3 hair brooms, 4 smooth- ing irons, 2 teapots, 24 pannikins, 6 tin buckets, 15 lbs. glue, 2 adzes, 4 hay forks, I iron plough, 3 bags lime, 190 fruit trees, 24 Bath bricks, 300 yds. woollen plaid, 400 yds. print, I qt. ink, 48 copy-books, 48 pen-holders, r gross pens, Soo ft. timber, 2 boilers, 12 milk dishes, 2 scythes, iz reaping-hooks, 7 lbs. mustard, wo'lbs. salt, 200 yds. unbleached calico, 44 pieces tape, 24 doz. hooks and eyes, 300 yds. print, 5o yds. twill, 50 yds. canvas, 48 reels cotton, ISo yds. holland, 4 pieces piping cord, 2 lbs. linen thread, rramlingham .. .. boo 30 .. 24 tooth-combs, 24 combs, zoo yds. flannel. • • r bullock dray, x forge anvil and bellows, tools for the forge, x plough, 6 shears, 1 pair harrows, r bullock chain, 1 chest tools, x circular saw, 2 ironpots, r boiler tap, ri cwt. nails, 3 mattocks, Yelta ...... 3 adzes, x2 pannikins,6 kegs white lead, I window-sash,48 yds. hessian, 2 saucepans, i grindstone. • • • • 1 ,40o • • • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •: •• •• •• •• •• •• Lake Hindmarsh .. .. • • • • 27,00o 300 5,5xo 4 400 200 So 56 90 50 00 96 24 48 • • • . .. •• 250 yds. linsey woolsey, zoo yds. cotton stuff, 5o yds. flannel, 5o yds. calico, 36 camp kettles, 36 quart pots, 48 pint pots, 2 wash-tubs. Lake Wellington .. • • 400 4,000 125 • • 16,00o 300 100 50 6o 36 36 24 12 12 .. 12 12 7,000 feet weatherboards, 2,00o feet flooring boards, 700 feet lumber, 2,500 palings, 2 kegs nails, 14 sashes, 4 pairs sashes, 6 locks, xz pairs butts, x cwt. white lead, 5 gallons paint oil, 250 pipes, 36 combs, 24 pocket knives, 24 tomahawks, 36 camp kettles, 6o pannikins, 6 buckets, 36 towels, 50 yds. flannel, 5o yds. calico, 15o yds. print, 6o yds. Lake Tyers • • .. .. 20,003 zoo 2,000 twill, zoo needles, 3 lbs. thread. roo 224 224 • • 75 75 75 75 .. 40 .. zo • • So yds. print, 80 yds. calico, 20 boys' twill shirts, 6 lbs. thread, 72 combs, 72 pocket knives, 3 gross hooks, 72 fishing lines, 36 pannikins, 36 quart pOts, 24 camp kettles, 24 lbs. netting twine, 40 yds. towelling, 6 wash basins, 36 packets needles, 6 wedges, z pairs maul-rings, 15o lbs. nails, 5 lbs. sulphur, 4 ozs. turkey rhubarb, i lb. antibilious pills, 2 lbs. gentian root, i lb. blistering ointment, i lb. mercurial ointment. Tangambalanga .. .. • • 2,000 40 boo 40 15o so So 20 IS .. 18 .. 18 .. 2 . • I gross pipes, 28 tomahawks, 7 lbs. mustard, 6 bottles castor-oil, x box Holloway's pills, z pot Holloway's ointment, iz yds. nosey woolsey, 76 yds. calico. Birregurra ...... • • 1,400 6o 800 50 II2 200 .• 1 3 9 9 9 • • 4 4 1 4 6 billies, 13 pannikins. Longerenong ...... • • x,000 roo x,coo SO 50 .. .• 20 20 20 30 12 22. .. • . Swan Hill .. .. . • .. 4,000 80 500 56. Itz x12 112 150 too .. 50 .. .. so .. .. So women's jackets. Geelong ...... • • • 60 47 26 •• ...... Gunbower .. .. • • • • 4,000 roo 1,200 ., 112 .. .. 30 .. 24 Ir. .. II 12 .. 24 12 tomahawks. Terrick-terrick .. .. . • • • • zo 500 ...... _ .. .. _ _ 12, billies, r2. tomahawks. ' Echuca ...... • • 600 300 to 56 0 56 40 24 12. .. .. 22 12 12 Flannel.* , , 2000 go le East Charlton .. .. 50 700 '25 56 Hz • • 2.5 15 10 15 ., xo to .. 10 6 tomahawks, x2 billies. Balmoral ...... • • .. .. • • 12 22 12 12 . • 12 X2 . • 12 Carngham ...... • • 4,480 100 1,000 6o x xz .. .. 42 15 24 24 .. 25 .. .. _ 24 tomahawks. Nareeb-nareeb .. .. •• •• x,000 30 450 25 50 .. •• 4.0 .. 1 24 .. rz 6 .. .. 24 pannikins, 22 billies, 24 knives, x 8 tomahawks. Weimer ...... • • 2,500 rzo x,o00 30 .. • .. .. x 8 9 2.. 5 S .. 8 Hamilton ...... • • %coo 40 30 25 .. zo _ Kulkyne .. .. • • 2,000 75 550 ISS 112 ISO .. 35 30 .. 30 - 20 20 7 .. Carr's Plains .. 6 girls' dresses, 6 tomahawks, 2 boxes Holloway's pills, 2 pots Holloway's ointment. .. .. • • %00o 120 r,000 So 224 .. 20 20 12 12 rS .. IS .. .. _ 24 billies, 24 pannikins. Boort • • .. •• •• • • .. .. 382 ...... • • Ir. i2 .. 6 .. .. 6 tomahawks. Wynna •. .. .. • • 2,000 40 380 15 u2 _ .. x8 20 to to .. Reidsdale .. .. •• • • • • 1,000 40 500 20 224 .. .. 25 25 .. x5 .. • . 25 .. .. 6 tomahawks. Olupna .. .. •• • • • • 000 4, 0 8 2 ,000 30 .. _ .. 48 36 • .. 36 .. 18 IS .. 18 ro children's dresses, to children's petticoats. KIllingworth .. .• .. • • 2,000 80 700 so ...... Benyeo .. •• • • Towaninnie .. • • %o00 30 300 ro 2.8 - .. 14 6 6 6 _ 8 8 .. 8 Talbot ...... • • 250 20 200 15 20 .. .. 13 6 .. 3 Siordialloc .. .. • • 400 20 200 14 28 _ .. ro 6 .. 4 Wangoon .• ...... • • 2,000 80 500 28 100 _ .. 29 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4 axes, 20 tomahawks, 2 boilers, 30 pannikin• Wtrmbirchip ...... Lake Condah .. .. • • 6,000 200 2,000 So 200 300 7.00 100 50 50 50 20 30 30 .. 30 100 lbs. molasses, rco lbs. salt, 28 lbs. soda, 5o yds. moleskin, 40 boys' twill shirts, 5o yds. twill, 20 boys' serge shirts, zo yds. blue serge, too yds. calico, 150 yds. towelling, zoo yds. flannel, 100 yds. print, too yds. plaid, I2 lbs. thread, 500 needles, x2 papers pins, 3o thimbles, 6 pairs scissors, 30 combs, 20 tooth-combs, 6o tin plates, 6o knives and forks, 6o spoons, 6o pannikins, 4 tubs, x8 buckets, 24 washbowls, 18 billies, 18 gall. billies, x candle mould, x flour scales, 820, 6 chambers, 22 spades, 12 hoes, 6 thistle hoes, 6 picks, zo axes, 3 cross-cut saws, z hand saws, I pit saw and tiller and box, 4 iron dogs, 3 doz. saw files, 6 oil stones, xz tomahawks, Ix ham- mers, 2 pairs pincers, r spirit-level and plumb, x smith's vice, 6 grubbing axes, 6 sets wedges, - 6 butchers' knives, 2 steels, 6 shovels, 400 ft. pine boards, 24 pairs window sashes, 24pairs hinges, x 12 lbs. shingling nails, 80 lbs. nails, I harness cask, 6o feet rope, iz bottles pain-killer, xz 117,090 3, 6 1 2,390 2,468 1,030 617 boxes Holloway's pills, 6 pots Holloway's ointment, x wooden plough, 4 tOns potatoes. 279 i 34,24 , 143 3,502 408 553 So 279 233 7 1 145 • • •

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APPENDIX VI,

ACCOUNT SHOWING THE AMOUNTS VOTED FOR THE ABORIGINES AND THE AMOUNTS EXPENDED FROM THE 1 sT AUGUST, 1865, TO THE 31ST JULY, 1866.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Unexpended balance on the 31st July, 1865 2,414 17 II Incidental and burial expenses 22 3 7 Amounts voted for ,866 to meet all ex- Cost of erection of hospital at Coranderrk 30 o 0 penses for salaries of Guardian, In- Medical attendance * x90 5 8 spector, and teachers, rations, clothing, Meat for various stations ... 131 14. stores, medical attendance, &c. 7,000 0 0 Cost of removingAborigines from various New buildings ... 1,100 0 0 parts of the colony to the asylum at Coranderrk 71 ,6 Advertising z 2 0 Amount expended for stores, &c.t 5,728 19 9 Salary of Guardian of Aborigines, from 1st August, 1865, to 31st July, 1866 ... 4.5o 0 0 Salary of Inspector of Stations, &c., from ist August, 1865, to 31st July, 1866 ... 300 0 0 Salary of teacher at Coranderrk, from tat November, 1865, to the and June, x866 41 4 5 Wages of laborer at Coranderrk, from 1st January, 1866, to 31st July, x866 ... 2 9 3 4. Clerical,assistance from xst August, 1865, to 31st July, x866 ..• 50 Unexpended balance 3,467 9 .E10,514 x7 Ix .C10,514. 17 It

* Medicine and medical comforts have been supplied which are not included in this sum. f For particulars of expenditure, see statement attached.

STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL COST OF ALL CLOTHING, PROVISIONS, ETC. (INCLUDING TRANSPORT THEREOF), SUPPLIED FOR THE USE OF THE ABORIGINES FROM THE IST AUGUST, x865, TO THE 31sr JULY, x866.

Name of Station. . Amount. Name of Station. Amount.

L s. d. • .£ s. d. Coranderrk ... ... ... ... 726 4. o Walmer, Horsham ... ... x a 6 6 Yalta (Mission station) ... ... x25 18 o Kulkyne ... ... ... ... 176 6 9 Mount Carmel, Lake Tyers (Mission- Portland ... ... ... ... 97 to 3 station) ... ... ... ... 260 10. to Hamilton ... ... ... 86 7 4 ... ... ... 152 16 4. Lake Hindmarsh (Mission station) ... 432 13 9 Carr's Plains I Lake Wellington (Mission station) 449 x3 4 Boodcarra, Belfast ... 76 14. 8 Yackandanda,h ,, ... ... 157 it 9 Boort, Durham ox ... ... ... 44 9 4. 120 7 3 Birregurra ... ... ... 75 i x 8 Youngera ... ... ... ... Dartmoor (in lieu of Sandford) ... 6z x4 5 Buangor ... ... ... ... 48 z o Warrnambool ... ... ... x19 x5 6 Mount Talbot ... ... 25 15 8 Longerenong... ... ... ... 104 3 7 Lake Condah '... ... ... ' x59 19 4 Tyntyndyer '... ... ... ... 373 13 8 Talbot, Amherst- ... ... ... 19.17 I Mordialloc ... ... ... 40 8 x Roseneath, Casterton ... .•. 55 5 10 Bacchus Marsh ... ' 22 6 8 Framlingham ... ... ... 187 to 9 ... 9z to 3 Wirmbirchip, Morton Plains ... 7o 8 o Camperdown 18 11 8 Geelong .... ... 39 ,,8 5 Karyrie, Morton Plains ... ... ... 033 o to Wyuna, Echuca ... ... ... x1 12 0 Gunbower, Durham Ox s18 13 xo Terrick-terrick ... ... ... 107 0 It Reidsdale, Wangaratta ... ...... roz 16 4 Merri Creek, Melbourne ... ... 33 4 xo Echuca .... 82 x8 6 East Charlton ... ... ... 003 /8 5 Ulupna ... ... ... ...... ... ... tz it 6 Killingworth, Yea ... ... ... 23 5 0 Balmoral ... 250 0 0 Carngham ...: • • • ... 027 3 8 Carriage of stores to 38 stations ... Mount Shadwell ... ... ... 2 8 6 ... ••• ••• 84 1 3 4 Connewarre ... £5,72,8 19 9 Nareeb-nareeb . ••• • 8 3 1 9 5

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ACCOUNT SHOWING THE AMOUNTS VOTED AND THE AMOUNTS EXPENDED FROM THE tar AUGUST, x866, TO THE 31er JULY, 1867.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Unexpended balance on the 31st July, x866 3,4.6 7 o Incidental and burial expenses ... 36 18 4 Amounts voted for 1867— Medical attendance *... ... ... 130 2 0 Food, clothing, and stores ... 5,500 0 0 Expenses removing Aborigines to the Medical allowance and medical comforts 4.00 0 0 station at Coranderrk, &c. ... ... z2, x62 66 New implements, purchase of stock, New implements and stock ... 237 and the formation of new stations ... 500 o 0 Meat for various Stations ... 99 4 6 To meet expenses incurred by the Advertising... • ... ... ... 4 5 6 honorary correspondents and honor- Amount expended for stores, &c. t ... 4,665 17 10 ary medical officers, travelling and Carriage of stores ... ... ... 289 9 3 incidental expenses, inspection, &c. 200 0 0 Salary of Guardian of Aborigines, from 1st August, x866, to 31st July, 1867 ... 460 x3 6 Salary of Inspector of Stations, &c., from rat August, x866, to 31st July, 5867 ... 300 0 0 Salary of master and matron at Coran- derrk, from 24th Sept., 1866, to 16th Feb., x867 ... ... ... 3 8 14 3 Salary of master and matron, Framling- ham, from 24th Sept., ,866, to 31st July, 5867 ... ... ... 85 5 6 Salary of laborer at Coranderrk, from 1st August, x866, to 31st July, 1867 ... 50 0 0 Clerical assistance from 1st August, x866, to 3xst July, 1867 ... ... ... 50 0 Amount expended in the erection of the new store and dormitories at Coranderrk ... ... 641 17 0 Unexpended balance ..: 2,965 0 6

£10,067 9 0 .E10,067 9 0

* Medicines and medical comforts have been supplied, which are not included In this sum. f For particulars of expenditure, see statement attached.

STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL COST OF ALL CLOTHING, PROVISIONS, ETC. (INCLUDING A PORTION OF THE TRANSPORT THEREOF), SUPPLTFD FOR THE USE OF THE ABORIGINES FROM THE 1ST AUGUST, 1866, TO THE 31sT JULY, 1867.

Name of Station. Amount. Name of Station. Amount.

£ s. d. £ s. d. Coranderrk ... ••• ... ... 47 1 14 9 Carngham ... ...... xo8 3 xx Framlingham ... ... ... 321 x3 7 Connewarre ...... 30 4 9 Yelta (Mission station) ... ... 113 x2 II Nareeb-nareeb ...... •• • /47 17 7 Mount Carmel, Lake Tyers (Mission Walmer, Horsham ...... 58 x o station) ... ... ... ... 449 4 8 Hamilton ... ...... •• • 73 0 4 Lake Hindmarsh (Mission station) ... 439 x6 3 Kulkyne, Lower Murray ...... x26 13 6 Lake Wellington,(Mission station) ... 275 II 4 Carr's Plains ...... 123 x8 9 Yackandandah ... ... ... 123 z 10 Boodcarra, Belfast ...... •• • 28 1 4 4 Birregurra ..... ... ... 64. I 9 Boort, Lower Loddon ...... 40 6 10 Dartmoor ... .. ... ... 29 19 4 Lake Condah ...... x56 8 5 Longerenong... ... ... ... 86 19 to Talbot ... ... • ... 20 II o Tyntyndyer, Swan Hill ... ... 94 6 5 Roseneath, Casterton ...... 68 7 I/ Swan Hill ... ... ... ... 185 14. 9 Wirmbirchip, Morton Plains ...... 76 24 3 Mordialloc ... ... ...... 27 9 5 Wyuna ... ...... 53 12 9 Bacchus Marsh ... ... ... 2 5 9 o Reidsdale ... ...... ••• 53 7 1 Geelong ... ... ... ... xx 3 3 Ulupna, Murray River ...... 122 5 5 Gunbower (Durham Ox) ... ... 68 8 7 Benyeo, Apsley ...... x82 x9 2 Terrick-terrick ... ... 91 4 I x Towaninnie... ...... 84 2 6 Echuca ... ... ... 8z 3 2 Melbourne (Merri Creek) ...... ax x5 5 Emit Charlton, Yowen Hill ... ... 102 3 xo Balmoral ... ... ... ... 24 22 4 £4,665 17 to 40

ACCOUNT SHOWING THE AMOUNTS VOTED AND THE AMOUNTS EXPENDED FROM THE 1ST AUGUST, 1867, TO THE 31sT JULY, x868.

£ s. d. £ s.

Unexpended balance on 31st , July, x867... 2,965 0 6 Incidental and burial expenses 48 7 4 Amounts voted for the year 1868— Medical attendance * ... ... 132 7 6 Food, clothing, and stores, and other Meat for various stations ... ... 103 7 expenses 5,500 0 0 Amount expended for stores, &c. f • • • 3,343 x 6 8 Medical allowance and medical comforts 400 0 0 Carriage of stores ... ... ... 1 97 1 9 6 Salary of Guardian of Aborigines (one month) 4... ... ... ... 39 0 6• Salary of Inspector of Stations, &c. (four months) ... ... ... ... 100 0 Salary of master and matron at Pram- lingham (one month) ... ... 8 6 8 Salary of master at Coranderrk, from rat August, 1867, to 31st July, x868 ... 78 0 0. Salary of laborer at Coranderrk, from xst August, 1867, to 3r st July, x868 ... 50 0 0 Clerical assistance from 1st August, 1867, to 31st July, 1868 ... ... ... 50 0 0 Unexpended balance ... 4,71 3 1 5 3

£8,865 o 6 £8,865 o 6

• Medicines and medical comforts have been supplied, the cost of which is not included in this sum. 1. For particulars of expenditure, see statement below.

Itt STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL COST OF ALL CLOTHING, PROVISIONS, ETC. (INCLUDING TRANSPORT THEREOF) SUPPLIED FOR THE USE OF THE ABORIGINES FROM rex AUGUST, 1867, TO THE 31sT JULY, 1868.

Name of Station. Amount. Name of Station. Amount.

£ s. d. s. d.

Coranderrk 464 I 9 Nareeb-nareeb 37 19 0 Framlingham 113 x5 8 Walmer ••• 69 16 5 Lake Condah 284 14 7 Hamilton ... 27 0 0 Yelta 10 0 0 Kulkyne 79 8 Lake Tyers 432 19 xx Carr's Plain's 9 Lake Wellington • • • 451 0 Boort 3o I 4 Lake Hindmarsh 465 x8 8 Wyuna 18 0 Tangambalanga 87 6 4 Reidsdale 71 7 0 Birregurra x+ II 4 If lupna 48 x6 Longerenong... 59 x6 8 Killingworth 9 1 9 8 Swan Hill 3o 0 0 Benyeo 4 to 0 Geelong x 19 5 Towaninnie 37 II Gunbower 85 13 0 Talbot •• • 21 17 5 Terrick-terrick 10 9 0 Mordialloc 10 13 2 'Echuca 48 xz I Wangoon 47 1 5 3 East Charlton 77 xo 0 Cove 5 x3 0 Balmoral ... 16 ix 2 Carngham 86 18 0 1:3,343 x6 8 41

APPENDIX VII.

CENTRAL BOARD APPOINTED TO WATCH OVER THE INTERESTS OF THE ABORIGINES. James MacBain, Esq., M.L.A., President. Theo. J. Sumner, Esq., J.P., Vice-President. The Hon. S. G. Henty, M.L.C. Thomas Embling, Esq , M D William Macredie, Esq., J.P. John Mackenzie, Esq., J.P. Henry Jennings, Esq. R. Brough Smyth, Esq., F.G.S., Lon.

HONORARY CORRESPONDENTS. Armstrong, Thos., Esq., East Charlton, Yowen Rill McLeod, John, Esq., Lucknow, Gippsland Andrews, Henry, Esq., Geelong McLeod, Hugh L., Esq., Benyeo, Apsley Baker, W. R. Cole, Esq., Wirmbirchip, Morton Plains McLeod, J. N., Esq., Mount Clay, Portland Bunnett, T., Esq. Macleod, Archibald W., Esq., Bairnsdale, Gippsland Burke, Robert, Esq., Mount Shadwell Manley, J. Wemys, Esq., Toolamba Campbell, Duncan, Esq., Lake Lalbert Mitchell, T., Esq., Tangambalanga, Little River, Yackan- Campbell, Colin, Esq., Buangor dandah Carr, Charles W., Esq., P.M., Avoca Officer, C. M., Esq., Mount Talbot Cooke, Cecil P., Esq., Lake Condah Officer, S. H., Esq., Murray Dowus A Crespigny, P. C., Esq., Talbot Porteous, Andrew, Esq., Pretty Tower, Stockyard Hill Dennis, A., Esq., Birregurra Ralston, R. H., Esq., Roseneath, Casterton Farie, R., Esq., Boort Read, Charles, Esq., Geelong Fergusson, William, Esq., Camperdown Reid, David, Esq., The Hermitage, Belvoir Garratt, J. M., Esq., Geelong Reid, Curtis A., Esq., Reidsdale, Wangaratta Gray, Charles, Esq., Nareeb-nareeb, Wycliffe Ritchie, John, Esq., Boodcarra, Belfast Hedley, G. D., Esq., M.D., Palmerston Rowe, J. P., Esq. Hill, Moore, Esq., Sandhurst Rutherford, James, Esq., Ulupna, Murray River Howitt, A. W., Esq., P.M., Bairnsdale Scott, R. D., Esq., Camperdown Hughes, C. W., Esq., Cobram Scott, T. P., Esq., Lake Condah Jackson, J. H., Esq., Sandford Simmons, J. W., Esq., Swan Reach Jamieson, Hugh, Esq., Mildura Stanbridge, W. E., Esq., Wombat, Daylesford Ker, W. L., Esq., Killingworth, Yea Strutt, C. E., Esq., P.M. Lane, Henry B., Esq., P.M., Belfast Synnot, M., Esq., Terrick-terrick Station, Mount Hope Learmonth, Peter, Esq., Hamilton District Leslie, M., Esq., Kulkyne, Swan Hill Tozer, F., Esq., Wangoon, near Warrnambool Mackin, C. T., Esq., M.D., Honorary Medical Officer, Wettenhall, H. H., Esq., Carr's Plains Geelong Wilson, S., Esq., Longerenong Molloy, W. T., Esq., M.D., Balmoral Wilson, Charles, Esq., Walmer, Horsham McLachlan, Ronald, Esq., River Avon Young, James, Esq., Bacchus Marsh

The undermentioned gentlemen have resigned their appointments as honorary correspondents :— Revd. H. E. Ellerman, East Wimmera G. Houston, Esq., Gunbower P. Beveridge, Esq., Tyntyndyer.

The undermentioned gentlemen are absent from the colony :- Henry Godfrey, Esq. G. H. Warren, Esq.

APPENDIX VIII,

LOCALITIES, AREAS, ETC., OF LANDS RESERVED FOR ABORIGINAL PURPOSES.

Locality. Date of Gazette. Area.

Moorabool and Werribee ••• ... 26th June, 186o ... 640 acres Karngun ... ••• ...... x i th February, x861 Duneed ... ••• ... ...... 29th June, x 86 r ... 3 Hopkins River, near Warrnambool ...... 17th September, x861 3,500 „ Lake Hindmarsh ... ... ... ...... 17th September, x861 1,897 IP Woori Yaloak (cancelled 30th December, x862) ...... 17th January, x862 ... Tangambalanga ... ••• ... ••• 1,200 „ ... 6th June, x862 ... 640 „ Mordialloc ... ••• ••• ••• ••• •• • Not gazetted ... 640 „ Coranderrk (in place of Woori Yaloak) ... 30th June,, x863 ... Lake Tyers ... 2,300 „ ... ...... 25th+.1, AgMay, 1—1 86 3 ... Lake Wellington, Sale ••• 2,000 „ ... 9th June, 1863 ,, ... 2,35 6 )1 Lake Condah...... 15th January, x869 ... Coranderrk (extension) 2,043 ), rood •.. 24th July, x866 ... 2,550 „ Kangertong ... ...... 26th June, x866 ...

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APPENDIX IX.

RETURN SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ABORIGINES CONFINED IN MIR MAJESTY'S_ GAOLS AND LOCK-UPS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31sx JULY; 1866.

Sentence. Where Sentenced. Date. Remarks. District. Where Confined. Name. Offence.

... Walter Johnstone ... Assaulting police ... ... One months' imprisonment.. ...... ...... zest Nov., 1865 Ararat ...... Ararat Gaol Examination ... ... ...... ... Not convicted ; discharged at ... Thomas Ware ... Assault ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• )7 ...... 77 Police Court 28th June, 1866. Discharged with a caution ... ... Ararat ...... :8th Sept., 1865 Arrested at Ararat. •.. .•• Ararat Lock-up ... Jenny ...... Drunk and disorderly in a ,, public place , , Cautioned and discharged ... ... Pt ...... zest Nov., 1865 Arrested at Buangor. 17 ... Walter Johnston ... •...... ,, One month's imprisonment in .Ararat 91 .., , ...... Assaulting" the police in the .. ••. 27 )7 )) execution of their duty Gaol Discharged with a caution ... ... 39 ...... 27th April, 1865 Arrested at Ararat. ... Thomas Kidd ... Drunk and disorderly in a )7 ...... 7) public place •• •• • • /7 0 ... 11 ,, t) f) • • • • 71 ... . • • ,, ... Rose Kidd ft )) ... Thomas Ware ... Assaultssau with intent to rob.... Discharged ...... 6th July, 2865 Arrested at Streatham. „ ...... » .•• ...... ... Avoca ...... ...... ••• ••• ••• ••• ...... — • ..• ••• ... ...... ... ... •.• .•• ... ... ...... ...... ... Ballarat ...... Ballarat Gaol ...... 3rd August, x865 ... Ballarat West ... Jemmy Ware •... Drunkenness ... Discharged ... •.. ... Ballarat West /I ... •.. If • • • • • • • • • 39 zest May, x866 .. ... Ballarat Swamp ... Queen Mary ... .•• )7 ... One months' labor... ... ... Wangaratta ... 14th March, 1866 Beechworth ... Beechworth Gaol ... Jemmy ... - ... Drunkenness ... ...... ... Three months' imprisonment ...... irth May, x866 ...... ... Cavendish ... 2•th Dec., 1865 Belfast ...... Cavendish ... Joe ...... Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged ... .. •• • •• • ... .., )7 PI 9) ... II Thos. Riley ... y, ,, ... zest 77 • . . • • . ••• July, 1866 ...... Charley ...... ) P ••• t) ...... ... ... Hamilton ... zest Sept., x865 ... Hamilton...... William ...... Drunk ... ... II 0 ... Two months' imprisonment •.. ,, ... rat Feb., 1866 os . ... as. Jim ...... Larceny of fruit ... ” go. )I ..• 9) ... 8th March, 1866 ... • .. ... Drunk ... ... ... Twelve hours' imprisonment ...... 7) Tommy ... ,, ... 11 ...... Charley ...... 7, ... ..• • a. 71 7) PP ,, ... ,, •• . • , ... ... ... f 7 x7th March, 1866 ...... Alexander ...... ... ... Discharged 71 ... 7t 2, ... ... ...... ft 77 3rd May, 1866 ...... ,, ...... Sandy ...... Drunk and disorderly PP Larceny from person ... Six months' hard labor ... ...... 29th March, 1866 yy ...... Dunkeld ...... Dick Magill ...... Lizzie Robinson ... Wilful damage ... ... Fined 5s. and damages 6s. (paid) ... Mortlake ... 4th Sept., 1865 y, ...... Mortlake ... „ ...... Jemmy Robinson ... Drunk and disorderly ... Fined 5s. (paid), in default seven days' )7 ,, ,, imprisonment ...... ... ...... x2th March, 1866 ...... II IP Discharged ,, r, ...... 77 Dick Dickson ' ... ... ... „ ... 13th April, x866 ...... Barney McLean ... Drunk ... NO f , ..• ... ... One week's imprisonment ... ... •.. 3oth April, x866 ... . • a 7) ,, 7) ... tt 77 ... Four days' imprisonment ... ... Camperdown ... xst August, x865 y, ...... Camperdown ... Dick ...... Drunk and disorderly ... Two days' imprisonment ... ... ,, ... 24th Aug., 1865 ...... Charley ...... P) 77' JP t1 . ... tt ... Discharged ... ... ... 3) ,, ... .. ,, ... Willy ...... 7) 7) ... ...... 3rd Nov., 1865 ... .•. ... $ I/ Forty-eight hours' imprisonment y, ...... tt 7) 77 11 ...... 7) 1) ...... George ... )7 )7 )7 I) If ...... t) ...... Jack ...... ,, 27 y, » !, ... Five days' imprisonment ... ••• „ ••• , ...... Id ...... Resisting the po'fice PP Forty-eight hours' imprisonment ...... loth Feb ., 1866 ... Billy ...... Drunk and disorderly ... y, /7 ...... 7) x zth Feb., 1866 ... Seven days' imprisonment ... ... ,, ...... Charley ... 7) 77 It f t Six hours' imprisonment ... ...... 7th April, 1866 ... John Brown ... „ yy ... ).7 ...... 2/ ... Seven days' imprisonment ... ... Warrnambool ... 9th Oct., 1865 ... Peter ... ,, ,, yy ... .,. Warrnambool ... Geelong ...... 27th Feb:, 1866 .. ...... „ ... Billy ...... Murder ... ... ... Discharged ... ...

7• 77 Mickey ... Using obscene language Seven days' imprisonment ... Warrnambool 6th Feb., 1866 97 77 Sou' Wester Drunk and disorderly Twenty-four hours' imprisonment ... 99 99 77 Peter ... Using obscene language Fourteen days' imprisonment ••• 97 izth Feb., 1866 79 7) Billy ... Assaulting the police Three months' hard labor ... 77 3rd March, x866 99 Johnny ••• Illegally on premises Discharged /I Nelly 37 19th March, 1866 31 •. • 99 Belfast Billy Youle Obscene language .. Fin d x o, or one month's imprisonment Belfaa xoth Aug., 1865 99 )7 Jimmy Hide Drunk ... Fined xos., or twenty-four hours' im- prisonment 79 77 Wilful damage ... Fined zos., or one month's imprisonment 77 3oth Aug., )7 57 Geo. Green Obscene language •.. 1865 Fourteen days' imprisonment, with and Sept., 1865 hard labor 7/ Indecent assault ... Three months' imprisonment, with 4th Dec., 1865 hard labor 99 • • Jim Cain Drunk and disorderly Twenty-four hours' imprisonment Kitty Cain •.• r8th Dec., 1865 Discharged ... ••• •• Benalla Wangaratta Jemmy ••• Drunkenness pp pp ••• Wangaratta 3oth Nov., 1865 ••• 7> Seven days' imprisonment ... 79 18th Jan., x866 Georgy ••• 79 Six hours' imprisonment ... 79 ••• Discharged 91 7/ 79 31st Jan., 1866 Dick ••• 7/ Six hours' imprisonment ... 71 77 77 Jemmy •• • and March, 1866 ,, )1 71 •• • 77 7.1 13th March, x866 /7 Jemmy •• • 17 One month's imprisonment ... 14th March, x866 Sentence completed in Beech- Sally worth Gaol. I) 79 Six hours' imprisonment ... 16th March, x866 77 Jemmy Three months' imprisonment lath May, 71 77 Fanny 1866 99 Discharged x zth June, /866 17 7.7 Mary Anne I/ Twenty-four hours' imprisonment •• • 77 Fanny ... zoth July, x866 77 77 Sally ... p, ... ... Discharged Bourke and Richmond Cranbourne Lock-up Jackey-Jackey Stealing from a dwelling ... 23rd July, 1866 Depot Discharged Cranbourne Bench 18th Oct., 1865 I) 17 77 Drunkenness ... ... Twenty-four hours' imprisonment 27th Dec., 1865 97 Willial Mooney Obscene language ... Forty-eight hours' imprisonment 3rd Feb., 1866 Drunk and disorderly ... 19 6th March, 1866 77 Dandenong Jemmy ..111 Violent assault on Eliza, an i Discharged Dandeno"ng Bencli 18th Feb., 1866 19 Peter ... Aboriginal Oakleigh Adam Clarke Drunk, assaulting a constable Discharged on payment of 3os. for Oakleigh Bench 3rd Malch, x866 and damaging his clothes damage to constable's clothes Prisoner had been a servant at Castlemaine Castlemaine Gaol ...... the time. ... ... ... •p• CastlemaineLock-up Moses ... • • • Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged Castlemaine 26tir Feb., x866 Geelong ... Geelong Gaol ... Billy, alias McLean Murder ... ... ••• •• • • • • •• • Admitted from Warrnambool r7th January, 1866; discharged Geelong Circuit Court 17th February, 1866. Geelong . North Geelong Harry ... Drunkenness Discharged Watchhouse Geelong ... rat April, z866 Gippsland... Bairnsdale Charles Desailly Illegally on premises .• • Twelve hours' imprisonment Bairnsdale zznd Nov., 1865 3/ 77 Dolly •• • 7/ P7 9/ Toby ... Drtlk anddisorderly pp ••• Discharged ••• ••• z3rd Dec., 1865 Sale George ... 71 PP ••• •.. ••• Sale " Andrew 1st Jan., x866 •• • Pined 40s., or forty-eight hours' 11th May, •• • Jack Warren pp x866 Kilmore •• • Seven days' imprisonment ••• ••• ••• Kyneton ••• ••• Maryborough w• •

showing the Number of Aborigines Confined in Her Majesty's Gaols and Lock-ups for the Year ending 31st July, 866—continued. RETURN Date. Remarks. Offence. Sentence. Where Sentenced. District. where Confined. Name. Echuca 3oth Aug., 1865 Was undergoing a sentence of Escaping from legal custody Discharged five days' imprisonment for McIvor ... Echuca Edward drunkenness. 1 ... znd Nov., 1865 ••• Bumbo Larceny from the person )9 18th Oct., 1865 ••• Drunk and disorderly Three days' in lock-up ••• • •• ••• )7 Twenty-four hours' in lock-up 7th Dec., x865 ••• Tommy Drunkenness • •• •• ■ 8th Dec., 1865 Drunk and disorderly ,, • Bob x ith Dec., x865 Exposing his person Two days' in lock-up ••• ... ••• Carr Twenty-four hours' in lock-up ••• Drunkenness ••• ... t9 Jcdinny Nelson Two days' in lock-up ••• Discharged ••• 6th Jan., x866 Johnny Roan Drunl and disorderly 6th Feb., x866 77 .. . ... Charley ... f f ••• .. . 77 Johnny ... Drunkenness ,, ... 5th July, x866 ..• Two months' imprisonment... Tallyho ... Violent assault Sandhurst Gaol ... ... ... ... ••• ••• Melbourne Melbourne Gaol Discharged ... ... City Police Court ... loth Aug., 5865 Swanston-street Thomas Gee* Drunk ... 25th Oct., 1865 Lock-up Fined xos., or forty-eight hours' 7 ) Jack McClellan Common assault tzth Jan., 1866 ,, f ••• ... Peter McCaffrey Drunk ... Discharged ••• ••• 71 Mary McCaffrey 99 3oth April, 1866 tt )7 )1 William Mooney ,, ) 19 4th June, 1866 Thomas Gee 77 ••• ft 29th June, x866 71 77 ••• 9) » Fitzroy Police Cour t x5th Mar„ x866 71 •••• Fitzroy Lock-up ... Elizabeth Johnson 73 St. Kilda Police Court zznd Jan., x866 ft )9 ••• St. Kilda Lock-up ... King, Man 71. ••• ••• ••• Ovens ••• ••• x9th Oct., x865 EommyKnuckledown Murder of an Aboriginal Death ... Portland Portland Gaol Three months' hard labor ••• 13th Nov., x865 Coppin Larceny ... ••• ft ••• ist Feb., 1866 Tim ... Stealing fruit Says' imprisonment •.. x5th March, 1866 Billy Wilson Drunkenness Three xoth April, 1866 79 Receiving a stolen cheque Six months' hard labor ••• Dick Magill ••• Coleraine... rith Nov., 1865 Fine paid. jemmy Gray Drunkenness Fined 5s.... Coleraine... ••• ••• 97 72 JP Tommy Gipsey 71 ••• 21 Jemmy Gundie 13th N ov., x865 9) Three months' imprisonment )7 Coppin... Larceny from a dwelling 7) ••• 7) 77 Old Peter Murder Discharged 24th Mar., 1866 P7 Seven days' in lockup 71 Jemmy Gundie Drunk and disorderly zoth April, x866 Discharged ••• 97 >f ••• ) ,, ••• ••• ••• 7, Thimoty ft Balmoral ... 3rd Aug., x865 Drunkenness Forty-eight hours' in lock-up Balmoral ... Billy Robertson •••••• Discharged, caution ••. ••• zist Oct., 1865 Bobby Leord ••• Twenty-four hours' in lock-up ••• z4th Oct., 1865 Joe Cavendish ••• Discharged, caution ••• ••• Edenhope 13th Aug., 1866 ••• Simple larceny, under 405.... Fine paid. Edenhope Bill Stockkeeper Fined Jos., or twenty-four hours' impri- Portland ... 3rd Jan., 1866 Portland ... Jemmy Johnstone ... Having no name, &c., on dray sonment 15th Mar., x866 Sent to prison. Three days' imprisonment ... ••• 17 Billy Wilson Drunk and disorderly 9th July, 1866 Assault ... Two months' imprisonment, with hard Sandhurst... Sandhurst Gaol Tallyho ... labor ••• Municipal Court ... 15th Dec., 1865 Bobby Cameron Drunkenness ••• Discharged 5) Sandhurst Lock-up..

... ••• RaywoodMuni.Court x4th Mar., 1866 > 7 Raywood Locle-up Billy Booby 9) ••• Wilful damage ... Six hours' confinement ... 9) 39 ... Swan Hill ... Swan 1.0.1 McTop... Murder of an Aboriginal at Remanded to Balranald, N.S.W. xoth Feb. x866 Discharged at Balranald. Balranald, N.S.W. Peter Drunk and disorderly ••• Three days' imprisonment ... ... Swan Hill x9th Mar., 1866 Wimmera Horsham Teddy Drunkenness •• • Fined 5s., or twenty-four hours' impri- Horsham ... x9th Oct., x865 Suffered imprisonment. sonment

Charley 71 JO ••• It ,) Fine" paid. 9) Mickey 77 7 7 7 1 • ■■ • Discharged rat Max, x866 99 ••• Paddy Assault 71 z9th Feb., x866 77 Dimboola 77 1 7

RETURN SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ABORIGINES CONFINED IN HER MAJESTY'S GAOLS AND LOCK-UPS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 3xsr JULY, 2867.

District. Where Confined. Name. Offence. Sentence. Where Sentenced. Date. Remarks.

Ararat ... ... Ararat Gaol ... Peter ... ... Assault ... ... ... 4os., or seven days' imprisonment ...... ... ... rat Dec., 1866 Imprisoned for assaulting a Chinaman whilst drunk. Discharged 7th Dec., x866. „ ... ... Moyston Lock-up ... Peter ... ... Common assault ... ... Fined 4os., or seven days' imprisonment Ararat ... ... rat Dec., 1866 ... Moyston ... ... loth April, 1867 ,, ... ... „ ... „ ... .. Drunkenness ... ... Cautioned and discharged ... ...... Walter Johnston ... Manslaughter ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ... ...... ... Escaped from the custody of ” Constable McDermott, 896, on x6th April, and not sub- . sequently arrested. Avoca ... ...... ... ...... ...... ... ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ... ...... ... Ballarat ... ... Ballarat Gaol ...... ... ...... .. ... ...... ... ... ... • ... ...... .. ... ... Carngham ... Jemmy Miller ... Drunkenness ... ... Discharged ... ... ...... ... ... 3rd Sept., i866 No other cases occurred in ,, the district during the above period. Beechworth ... Beechworth Gaol ... Tommy Rielly ... Larceny ... ... ... One month's labor... ... ...... ... ... 22nd Feb., 1867 ., ... ... x9th April, x867 ... ... ,, ... Horse-stealing ... ... Two years', roads ... ... ...... Belfast ... ... Belfast .. ... Billy Youle ... Drunk ... ... ... Discharged ... ... ... Belfast ... ... z6th Dec., x866 ...... ...... ... 28th Dec., x866 ... ... " ... ... ... 77 P7 ... ... /I /7 ...... ... ... Seven days' imprisonment ... ... 77 7th Feb., 1867 7) ••• ..• 7) ... ... George Green ... Common assault es ... ... Twelve hours' imprisonment ... 93 ... • 7 7 17 ... ... » ... ... Eliza Green ... ... 13th July, 1867 . . . . a . . . . . . . Billy Youl ... Using obscene language ... Fined 4.os., or seven days' imprison- » 77 5 7 • ment ... Penshurst ... z9th Mar., 1867 . . . . . a Sandy Hamilton ... Burglary ... ... ... Discharged ... ... 5 7 Penshurst ... “ ... ... ...... ... 97 ... ... ,, ... ... Sam Robinson ...... ... )7 Fined 5s., or twenty-four hours' im- ... ... 2,7th May, 1867 ... ... 77 .• • ... Jack Gibb ... Drunk and disorderly ... ” 11 prisonment

RETURN showing the Number of Aborigines Confined in Her Majesty's Gaols and Lock-ups for the Year ending 31st July, 1867—continued.

District. Where Confined. Name. Offence. Sentence. Where Sentenced. Date. Remarks.

Charley ... Belfast Cavendish Drunk and disorderly Discharged Cavendish ••• 27th Nov., 1866 Gellibrand ••• Camperdown Three days' imprisonment ... Camperdown ••• 25th Oct., 1866 ••• 17 Timbo Discharged ••• ... ••• 31st Oct., x866 George ... ••• 71 17 77 . • . ... • • • ••• 4th Feb., 1867 17 Hamilton Sandy Hamilton ... Simple larcny ••• One month's imprisonment ... ••• Hamilton .• . ••• 6th Sept., 1867 Sent to Portland gaol. ,, Drunkenness ••• ••■ 1) Seven days' imprisonment ... • 7) ••• 7th Feb., x867 71 11 Burglary ... On remand from Penshurst 7th March •• . ••• ••• ••• ••• • to 29th March, 1867 Jemmy ... ,, Drunk ... Discharged ••• ... ••• Hamilton ... .•. 6th April, 1867 ••• Jin It 11 ••• Two days' imprisonment ... •.. ••• ••• jet June, 1867 • • • William Coppin • . • • I) 37 •• Twenty-four hours' hard labor 4 • • ••• 3oth July, 1867 Wilmot ... Warrnambool Simple larceny ... Two days' imprisonment ... ••• Warnambool •• • 29th Oct., 1866 Johnny ... Simple larceny ... Two days' imprisonment ... ..• ••• Jemmy Allen Drunk and disorderly 71 )7 Fourteen days' imprisonment 77 ••• 24th Dec., x866 ,, Jim Cane ... Assault ... ••• One month's imprisonment ... ••• 75 77 ••• •• • 7) Wilmot ... Discharged ... ... ••• Jemmy Hyde ... ••• 77 ••• One month's imprisonment ... 77 ••• Jemmy Loukman Drunk and disorderly 17 Discharged ... ... 7) ••• 9th Jan. 1867 Jim Cain ... 77 7) ... ••• 71 ••• 3oth April, 1867 Collin Hood Threatening language 17 Fourteen days' imprisonment 7/ ••• 28th May, 1867 ,, Jemmy Brooks 77 •• • )7 Sam Robinson ,, Discharged 71 ••• ... 77 ,, )7 Jemmy Delford ••• 31 77 Old Joe ... 17 17 ,, ,, Forty-eight hours' imprisonment 5) 77 King John I) Discharged )7 ,, )7 11 ,, Dickey ... >7 71

King Jack 17 ••• Jemmy McLean ... •••' 71 )7 17 )7 17 Benalla Benalla Wellington Obscene language Fined 55., or twenty-four hours' im- Benalla Bench 19th Mar., 1867 Completed sentence in Benalla. prisonment Frank ... )7 Wangaratta Drunkenness Discharged Wangaratta 28th Sept., 1866 Neddy 17 )7 71 77 3oth July, 1867 Castlemaine •• • ••• ••• ..• ••• "• ••• •• • • • • ••• ••% Depot and Bourke ... Dandenong Billy Mooney, alias Larceny ... Discharged Dandenong 20th Oct., 1866 Langhorne

ft 77 . 6 * Using threatening language Heales"ville George Taylor O'Sul- Drunk and disorderly ... Fined zos. Healesville 7th Mar., 1867 livan

17 Johnny Webster ... Horse-stealing Dismissed 6th June, 1867

Geelong ... Geelong Gaol ••• ••• ••• •• • • . • ••• ..• 11 Watch-houses North Billy ... Drunk ••• Discharged Geelong ... 26th Nov., 1866 Geelong

)7 77 Harry ... )7 ••• to • I) ••• 25th Dec., 1866 77 Jerry ... Lunacy (delirium tremens) 77 ••• 28th Jan., 1867 In lock-up from 26th to 28th. Bairn"sdale Charley Rivers ... Drunk and disorderly ,> Bairnedale x5th Oct., 1866 ••• Sale Derryman Ferris ... Drunk ... Sale ••• 9th Nov., 1866

••• )1 Andy ... Exposing his person in a pub- Six hours imprisonment 79 3oth May, 1867 lic place

William Clarke ... Drunk ... Discharged 29th April, 1867 ••• ••• Kilmore • • • •• • ••• ••• Kyneton ••• ••• .•• ••• Maryborough Maryborough Gaol:: ••• ••• ••• •• • Majorca ... Jemmy Drunk and disorderly Discharged ••• ••• ist Nov., x866 McIvor ... Echuca Albert Simple larceny ... )1 ••• ••• Echuca 14th Aug., 1866 • • • Mary ff ••• ,, .7> ••• ••• Sandhurst 11 ••• Ratty )1 Three months' imprisonment zest Aug., x866 • • • Echuca Tommy Drunk and disorderly Fined 5s. ••• ••• 11th Nov., x866 •• • Bob Drunkenness ... Twenty-four hours' in lock-up 25th Jan., 1867 ••• ft Bob Drunk and disorderly 27th Feb., 1867 ••• 7) Jack Drunkenness Forty-eight hours' in lock-up 5th Mar., 1867 ,, Tallyho Twenty-four hours' in lock-up ••• 25th Max., x867 Bumbo ,, Discharged ••• 3rd June, 1867 Melbourne Melbourne Gaol ... ••• ••• ••• Melbourne Lock-up Tommy Gee Drunkenness Melbourne Bench ... 5th Nov., x866 WM. Mooney >I f ••• xoth Nov., 1866 ••• ) .•• 19th Dec., x866 ••• t) ,, Seven days' imprisonment ... ••• 26th Dec., 1866 19 Discharged •• • 3rd Jan., 1867 ft Unlawfully on premises Twenty-four hours' imprisonment 9) •• • x8th Jan., x867 Habitual drunkenness One month's imprisonment ... ••• 23rd Jan., 1867 ••• King Billy Drunkenness Discharged •• • 18th Feb., 1867 ••• Robert Dwyer ft 70 f/ ••• 4th April, 2867 ••• Prahran Lock-up ... Jemmy Obscene language ... ••• 91 Prahran"Bench •• • 25th June, 1867 ••• Robert Elliott Drunk and disorderly • • • IP ...... ft 29th June, 1867 ••• Richmond Lock-up Bullocky )1 PP •• • Twenty-four hours' imprisonment ... Richmond Bench ... 8th Jan., 1867 ••• St. Kilda Lock-up ... Henry Jones • • • Drunkenness •• • Discharged ... ... ... St. Kilda Bench ... 7th Dec., x866 ••• Robert Dwyer • • • •• • ... ... Obscene language ... ft ... Pf 17th Dec., x866 Ovens Bright Tommy Rielly • • • Simple larceny ... • • • One month's hard labor in Beechworth Bright ... zznd Feb., 1867 gaol •• • Yackandandah Ned Wheeler ... Larceny as bailee ... Discharged ... ... ... ,, 7 Escaping from legal custody Eight days' imprisonment, hard labor Yackandandah 27th Nov., 1866 Wahgunyah Matilda McCrae Larceny from a dwelling ... Twenty-four hours' imprisonment ... Wahgunyah 4th Dec., x866 Por'lland Portland Gaol Sandy Hamilton alias Larceny ... One month's hard labor ... ... 6th Sept., 1866 Paunchy Allic Edenhope Bill Stockkeeper Stealing from the person Discharged ••• •e• ••• Edenhope... 12th Aug„ 1866 Charley Hearn ... ••• Drunk and disorderly Forty-eight hours' in lock-up ••• PP •• • 4th Mar., 1867 Bill Stockkeeper Discharged with a caution ... ••• 26th April, x867 Jemmy Johnston ... Unlawful possession of meat Fined £2, or one month in gaol. Paid 77 26th May, 5867 fine 17th Sept., x867 Balmoral ... Postman Bill ... Drunkenness Discharged with a caution ... ••• Balmoral ... • `• Billy Robertson ... Stealing from a dwelling ... Two months' hard labor, Portland 31st Oct., x867 gaol Casterton... • • • James Condi ... Drunk and disorderly • • • Seven days' imprisonment ... Casterton... 13th Jan., 1867 ••• Billy Wilby 3/ Twenty-four hours in lock-up 3/ ••• Timothy ... If 13 If es. •• • Reddy ... Discharged with a caution I/ i8th Sept., 1867 Sandhurst... Sandhurst Gaol • • • Ratty .., Was found by night in a cellar Three months' hard labor ... zznd Aug., x866 Died in gaol 25th August. without lawful excuse James Kirby ... Illegally using a horse Six months' hard labor ... ••• 25th April, 1867 Swan Kill Lock-up Duncan Campbell Common assault ... Discharged with a caution ... Swan Hill 13th Oct., 1866 Swan Hill Gaol ... Eliza ... Drunk and disorderly Three days' imprisonment ... 25th May, 1867 Wimmera ••• ••• •••

RETURN SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ABORIGINES CONFINED IN HER MAJESTY'S GAOLS AND LOCK-UPS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31sr JULY, 1868.

District. Where Confined. Name. Offence. Sentence. Where Sentenced. Date. Remarks.

Ararat ...... ... Ararat Gaol ... Jimmy ... Unlawful assault ... .. Three months' imprisonment, with hard ... ... ... 11th June, x868 This prisoner came from Horsham, labor and is the only Aboriginal confined in Ararat Gaol during the period mentioned above. He was well clothed; could speak good English; said he went to church and worked regularly on stations. Discharged Avoca ...... ...... ...... ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ...... ... by good conduct 15th August, 1868. Ballarat ...... Ballarat Gaol ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ...... ...... Ballarat West ... Jemmy Miller ... Drunkenness ...... Discharged ... ... ...... ... ... 31st Oct., 1867 .4.. ... 79 77 • • • John Black ...... ,. ... ... ...... ... ... 25th June, x868 Beechworth ... Beechworth Gaol ... Jemmy ... ... Assault ... ...... Three months' labor ... ... Benalla ... ... 2nd May, 1868 .. ... ,, 7.7 Tommy ... ... Horse-stealing ...... Two years' roads ... ... ... Beechworth ... igth July, 1867 Belfast ...... Cavendish ... Joe ... ... Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged ... ... ... Cavendish ... 15th Aug., 1867 7> ...... Peter ... ...... 7, If If If ... ... ...... zest Nov., x867 ft' ...... ... ft tf 77 • • • 7) ... ... . • . .. z7th Dec., 1867 7, ...... Hamilton...... Henry Rose ...... I, 91 )7 ... • • • ... Hamilton... ... zoth Jan., 1868 ...... ,, 77 Sandy Hamilton ... 77 77 Seven days' imprisonment, hard labor ... nth April, 1868 II ...... Penshurst ... Wm. Burton ...... ,, 77 Thirty-six hours' imprisonment ... Penshurst ... zgth Oct., 1867 11 .•. ... . • • ... Jack Gibb ... „ JP Twenty-four hours' imprisonment ...... 17th Jan., x868 „ ...... Annie Gibb ... ,, 77 .. • ,, ...... 79 77 ,> ... If ••• ••• Mary A. Burton ... It 31 ••• „ II ••• ••• It ,, II ...... Mary ... ... If ft f f 8.. ... ,, „ „ . a • ... Mortlake ...... Wm. Creek ... Drunk ... ...... Fine ss or twelve hours' imprisonment Mortlake ... ... zxst Jan., 1868 „ ...... Dick Dickson ...... ...... n 77 Three days'' imprisonment ... ... I 2 ... . . . 18th Mar., 1868 n ...... Camperdown ... George ... ... Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged ... ... ... Camperdown ... 2 I et Sept., 1867 e ...... 7/ ... Jemmy Allen ...... 77 31. Twenty-four hours' imprisonment ... If ... 2211d Feb., 1868 ...... 17 ... Jem Allen ...... 77 77 Three months' hard labor ... ... 1, ... 27th Feb., x868 ...... 27 ... Kitty ... ... „ ... ,, 1, Discharged ... ... ... ft ...... It f t . a . Jem Cameron ... 2, .. • ... ... 77 /7 ... .77 ... 4th April, x868 31 ...... 11 ... Timbo ...... ... II lf Three days' imprisonment ... ... tf ... and May, 1868 ...... ,, ... ,, ... Dick ... 77 91 Discharged ... ...... ... 77 )7 I) , ...... Lilly ... f I n /9 ... II ... . . • ... ,,, ... 77 ...... Terang ...... Timbo ... 2, )) t I • • • • • • ... Terang ... ... 4th Nov.,ii '67 ...... If 1 f Jem Allen ... ft II ...... ... ... II If • • • ... It 71 /7 ...... Warrnambool ... Nelly ... ,, ... 3, ... ... ... Warrnambool ... 14th Aug., x867 a.. 17 ••• 17 Billy ... • • • ... ... ...... 77 71 77 77 ... 4th Oct., 1867 ...... ,, 79 Wilmot ... IP 77 ...... ... ... 1, f, ... ,) 7) 77 ...... 7t Peter ... ... 77 77 . • . ... . • • • 7, • • 77 • • • 17 /7 ...... 17 7) Nelly 7) 77 • • • ... ... ...... ... 77 ... 23rd Dec., x867 ...... 97 71 • • • Jim Cain ... ... Common assault ...... Ten days''j hard labor ... ... ,, ... 14th Jan., x868 ...... Johnny ... ... Drunk and disorderly ,, ... Discharged ... ... ... 77 ... 1 1th Mar., 1868 .77 ...... Belfast ...... Billy Youl ...... f) IP Fined los., or forty-eight hours' im- 77 ... gth Aug., x867 prisonment—imprisoned 3enalla ...... Beechworth Gaol ... Tommy Smith ... Larceny from a dwelling ... Six months' imprisonment ... ... Beechworth General 17th Oct., 1867 Committed from Benalla. Sessions ...... 77 Benalla Lock-up ... Jemmy Benalla ... Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged ... ... ... Benalla ... ... 31st Dec., 1867 • ...... , „ ,, r ... One week's imprisonment ... ... e ... ... 18th April, x868 ...... Beechworth Gaol ...... e )2 Grievous assaull ...... Three months' imprisonment ... e ... ... ist May, x868 ;.'astlemaine ...... ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ... ...... Depot and Bourke ... Dandenong Billy Langhorne Larceny from the person Three months' imprisonment Cranbourne 17th Aug., 1867 William Mooney Simple larceny 0 71 Forty-eight hours' imprisonment Dandenong 3oth May, 1868 Arrested at Cranbourne by I- Sen. Constable Armstrong. 71 Hawthorn Timothy Miller Drunk and disorderly Discharged Hawthorn 18th Feb., 1868 1 This includes the Kew Sta- Anne Miller /3 ••• 18th Feb., 1868 f tion. Geelong Geelong Gaol ... • • • • • • • • • ••• ••• 33 North GeelongWatch- Billy Drunk • • • •• • Discharged Geelong ... 17a1 Feb., x868 house Gippsland... Bairnsdale Billy Clarke Drunk and disorderly • Forty-eight hours' imprisonment Bairnsdale ••• x3th Feb., i868 Long Harry )1 ••• Twenty-four hours' imprisonment •• • 17th June, 1868

77 •• • Exposing his person • •• 71 77 ••• 71 77 Sale " George ... Drunk ... Discharged •• • • • • Sale ••• •• • zoth Dec., 1867 37 Harry Valentine Drunk and disorderly 6th April, 1868 )1 I) Billy Clarke 1) 5) • • • • • • 77 ••• 31 George ... 77 • • • • • • •• • 27th Ap"ril, x868 17 7, Breach of the peace Seven days' imprisonment ... 11 ••• 13th May, i868

Kihnore • • • ••• ••• ••• ••• Kyneton • • • •• • •• • •• • •• Maryborough •• • Maryborough Gaol ••• •• • • •• • 7> • • • Inglewood Mickey McDonald... Drunkenness ••• Cautioned and discharged • • • Inglewood •• • 5th Dec., 1867 77 • • • Johnny Nelson ... 17 • • • •• • •• • rith April, 1868 • • • Talbot ... Eliza ... Six hours' imprisonment ... •• • Talbot ... • • • 6th Sept., 1868 •• • Wedderburn Edward ... Discharged • • • Wedderburn • • • 26th Dec., 1867 McIvor" • • • Echuca Bumbo Drunk and disorderly ••• Three days' in lock-up • • • Echuca •• • 24th Aug., 1867 • • • • 71 •• Wharparilla Jack ... 7) 31 ••• Twenty-four hours' in lock-up • • • 7) • •• • 5th Nov., 1867 • ,, 7/ •• Drunkenness* ••• Forty-eight hours' in lock-up 37 •• • • • • 7th Dec., x867 77 Mickey Drunk and disorderly • • • 7) ••• 27th Feb., 1868 ,, Bumbo • • • Twenty-four hours' in lock-up IP •• • 4th May, 1868 )7 )1 ••• Kitty 77 ••• 33 •• • ••• 77 •• • 7) 7) Johnny 7) 17 71 /1 77 Melbourne Melbourne Gaol Billy Mooney Larceny Three months' hard labor ... Cranbourne Police 6th Aug., 1867 Discharged under the Regula- Court tions 23rd October, 1867. )7 77 77 Drunkenness Three days' imprisonment ... Melbourne Police 26th Oct., 1867 Discharged, sentence expired Court 28th October, 1867. Swanston-street Billy MoOney • • • Drunk and disorderly Three day's' impriiiinment City Court ••••• z6th Oct., x867 • Andrew Bundy •• Breach of Town Police Act ... Discharged 77 7th Dec., 1867 • )7 Eliza ... •• Drunkenness 11 77 29th Feb., x868 77 I> Tommy Gee •• • 77 loth June, 1868 71 Timothy Miller ••• It 29th June, 1868 Hotham Bingbi •• • Drunk and disorderly 37 Hotham Police Court 3rd Jan., 1868 All these prisoners confined Richmond Mich. Man ••• 1, • 71 1) Richmond Police nth Aug., 1867 Court in police lock-ups. 7) • • • Emily ... 37 77 z6th May, x868 ••• Maria ... 23 r St. Kilda ... •• • William Mooney Drunkenness St. Kilda Police 24th Dec., 1867 Court • • ••• •• Robert Dwyer ... Wilful damage ... Fined is , and zs. 6d. damages 7) 27th July, 1868 •• • Ovens ••• ••• ••• ..• ••• • • • Portland ... ••• Portland Gaol ••• Billy Robertson ... Petty larceny Two months' hard labor •-• •• • 31st Oct., 1867 •• • Edenhope ••• Tommy Bullock ... Drunkenness Cautioned ••• Edenhope 15th Aug., 1867 • • • • • • •• • 9, 77 Charley Rose ... Drunk and disorderly 9) 7) • • • )7 Jemmy Bullockey 77 17 7 7 •• • •

RETURN showing the Number of Aborigines Confined in Her Majesty's Gaols and Lock-ups for the Year ending 31st July, i 868—continued.

District. Where Confined. Name. Offence. Sentence. Where Sentenced. Date. Remarks.

Portland ... ... Edenhope ... Jack Liman ... Drunk and disorderly ... Cautioned ... ... ... Edenhope ... 23rd Dec., 1867 ... Unlawfully on premises ... Seven days' in lock-up ... ...... zoth Jan., 1868 7.2 ... ... „ ... ... Billy Officer ,.. ... ...... 25th May, x868 ... ...... Mickey ... ... Drunk and disorderly ... Cautioned ... 2) )) ... ... ...... ...... ... Larry ... ... ,) ,, ... 1, 2/ ... ... ...... ,, ... ...... ... Dickey ... ... :, :, ... 3) ... ... ... Casterton ... igth Sept., 1867 ... ... Casterton... ... Neddy ... ... :, )3 ... 23 ... Balmoral ... ... 17th Sept., 1867 ... ... Balmoral ... ... Postman Bill ... Drunkenness ... ...... ... 2) ... 31st Oct., 1867 Two months' hard labor in ... ...... ... Billy Robertson ... Larceny from a dwelling (a Two months' hard labor ... ... /3 ... 32 silk pocket-handkerchief) Portland Gaol. Sandhurst ... Sandhurst Gaol ... James Kirby ... Stealing two felt hats ... Six months' hard labor ... ...... ... ... 24.th Oct., 1867 This prisoner is a half-caste Aboriginal only. Swan Hill ... ... Swan Hill, Lock-up Duncan Campbell ... Drunk and disorderly ... Discharged with a caution ... ... Swan Hill ... zoth Dec., 1867 Upper Goulburn ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... ... ...... ......

By Authority : Jonx FERRES, Government Printer, Melbourne.

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Author/s: Victoria. Board for the Protection of the Aborigines; Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Council; Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Council. Select Committee on Aborigines

Title: Reports of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines in Victoria 1861 - 1925

Date: 1861 - 1925

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