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A correspondent of the Herberton Advertiser writes that the blacks have been busy spearing horses in the neighbourhood of Beckley's Camp lately. A miner named Henry Rowe, engaged in searching for his mates horses, tracked them high into the ranges, where he discovered that two had been killed by the blacks, who cut up and carried away almost every portion of one, and all of the other with the exception of the head and feet. A third, belonging to the same party, came galloping to the camp with a spear through his neck. Thereupon there was a "roll up," and Mr. Beckley, with eight other miners and a black-boy, started to the scene of the butchery to "investigate" the business. The "boy" tracked the depredators to their first and second camps, in each of which they had roasted and feasted upon part of their spoil ; but the aboriginal tracker beginning to fancy he was on the scent of some of his own tribe, abandoned the cause of the white Nemesis, and took to the bush himself. The party, how-ever, continued to follow the trail for fully twenty-six miles, when, having exhausted their rations and lost their sable "guide, counsellor, and friend," they were fain to beat a retreat and make for their camp again.