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‘THE PALMER. The Palmer Chronicle has received a letter from Mr. C. B. Sweetland, who with a man named Blake, was lately speared by blacks. Mr. Sweetland states:-"About ten days ago myself and a man named Blake, with a black boy left Kalkah station on a prospecting tour. In due time we reached a spot between the King and Lukin Rivers, about 50 miles N. W. of Kalkah, where we camped. The blacks were very plentiful, and we sighted three different mobs the first two days out, and had every reason to believe they were dogging our tracks. However, one morning as Blake and myself were working in a gully we were saluted by a shower of spears. Blake got one through the joint of his left knee, and I got one through my left arm. We had our rifles handy, and immediately opened fire, when the miscreants took to the hills. They were led by a blackfellow in moleskins, shirt, and felt hat, though where he obtained these articles I cannot make out. The blackboy was about half a mile away, watching the horses when they came on us. It was very hilly country where we were camped, and the blacks must have been watching our movements from the hills. Blake was completely disabled, but we managed to make into Mulgrave telegraph station yesterday morning."’ (Morning Bulletin, 2 October 1888, p6; Daily Northern Argus, 3 October 1888, p2; Capricornian, 6 October 1888, p26)