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About a week or ten days ago, intelligence reached town that the blacks were spearing cattle on the run of Mrs. GRIFFIN, at Whitesides, on the Pine River. As is usual in such cases, the depredators were not contented with slaughtering a beast for their own use. They had constructed a system of barricades in the dry bed of a creek, into which they drove the cattle, spearing them, and leaving the remainder of the carcases to rot, after they had helped themselves to what meat they wanted. In order to check this wanton destruction of property, the officer of the Native Police proceeded at once to the spot, with his small detachment; but, not having succeeded in making any captures, he returned to Brisbane, to await a more favourable occasion.