(7): To stop the carnage
Gudyarra (war) and the Bicentennial of Martial Law 2024 ( 7): To stop the carnage. October . The Wiradjuri continue to fight to halt further expansion of the invading squatters and their overseers, convict workers and stock. 14 October. Assistant Surveyor Henry Dangar and the surveying party are attacked by ‘a large body’ (possibly 150) of ‘Bathurst natives’ at Mount Macarthur north of Mudgee. A three-hour battle ensues during which one of Dangar’s party is speared in the head, a horse is killed and the warriors escape with a packhorse and provisions. The Gazette publishes an editorial on the different situation at Wellington when compared to Bathurst – ‘while Bathurst, with its surrounding vicinity, is engaged in an exterminating war, peace reigns around the smiling and ever verdant valley of Wellington’. Quoting a reliable ‘authority’ the writer continues that at Bathurst ‘those men who went out on horseback to hunt them down, ind...