Qsa Index Term Hits Spring Creek Kamerunga Cairns

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The letter sets out his ideas for a reserve for the Aboriginals, which he suggests should be located at Pinnacle Pocket on the Barron River to Cairns road. He also offers his services as manager of the proposed reserve. Attached are copies of his references. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 559 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 94/2853, Letter number 89/9303 Telegram from Arthur Longden sent from Cairns advising that he has some Aboriginals in his camp at the Mulgrave goldfields and asking if he can be supplied with rations for them. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 563 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 94/2853, Letter number 89/11398 Telegram from Arthur Longden sent from Cairns advising that the Aboriginals are waiting at the top camp of the Mulgrave goldfields for rations. He asks when they will be supplied. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 567 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 94/2853, Letter number 93/14672 Letter from Arthur Longden sent from the Mulgrave River, Cairns forwarding the new supply structure for the rations distributed to the Aboriginals at the Mulgrave River. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 576 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 94/2853, Letter number 94/2417 Letter from Arthur Longden at the Mulgrave River, Cairns forwarding the new supply structure for the rations distributed to the Aboriginals at the Mulgrave River. Also includes at telegram from Longden to the Colonial Secretary: "police magistrate here states instructed not sign vouchers Blacks rations past ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 582 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 94/2853, Letter number 94/2742 Letter from Arthur Longden advising that he was told that the Police Magistrate in Cairns has been instructed not to sign any more vouchers for rations to the Aboriginals. He asks that they be signed so that the supply of rations can continue. He states that it has not been necessary to use the Native ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 650 centres, number, requirements and condition generally than anyone else". He suggests that rations should be distributed at designated centres such as Coen, Maytown, Laura, Bloomfield, Butchers Hill, Thornborough and Atherton. And on the coast at Cooktown, Port Douglas, Cairns and Innisfail. He also asks why the Aboriginals did not get their blankets this winter, "surely the government did not stoop to false economy". He suggests that a country which exports 8 million pounds worth of goods per ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 783 moved that the government be asked to increase the ration allowance to the blacks at Atherton by 20 pounds a month, and that the male aboriginals be employed under the supervision of Mr Kelly to clear the Cairns road, also that Mr Zillman be asked to support the application". Queensland State Archives ITM6820 95/823, Letter number 91/14879 ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1089 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 95/6927, Letter number 90/606 Letter from the Cairns Divisional Board advising that they assist in the dispensing of food to the Aboriginals of the district. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1186 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 95/10689 Brief letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns in relation to the supply of rations to the Aboriginals. Queensland State Archives ITM6820 95/14071 ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1199 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 95/14290 (top number) Letter from the Bench in Cairns suggesting that tenders be called for the supply of beef to the Aboriginals at Myola. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1576 Nuts: Pygeum Turnerianum: joon-da (called abill by the Cairns Aboriginals). Match Box Bean: baboor Morton Bay Chestnut: marchay Candlenut: belere Almond: berka Zamia: ma-ra ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1622 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 Report from Walter E Roth dated May 27, 1898 from Cooktown to the Commissioner of Police. Roth expresses his surprise that a deputation of graziers who met the Premier in Cairns suggested that the "Aboriginals Protection Act" was enacted to remove Aboriginals to reserves. He states that this is "a false impression" ... "originally emanating in the imagination of mischievous whites". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1638 The needle used: ng-gi-ur-jur Report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898. Advises that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1640 Report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898. Advises that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his capacity as Aboriginal Protector. The visit was in response to the "wishes expressed by the Honourable TJ Byrnes the Premier that he would like to know the feelings of the Cairns district ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1642 Advises that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his capacity as Aboriginal Protector. The visit was in response to the "wishes expressed by the Honourable TJ Byrnes the Premier that he would like to know the feelings of the Cairns district with regard to the amending of the Aboriginal Act". He advises that he met with the various progress associations and "fully explained the Act at the meetings referred to" (see below for the minutes from ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1668 Queensland State Archives ITM6820 Letter from Sub-Inspector Cooper to the Chief Protector sent from Cairns and dated June 2, 1898 in relation to the "Employment of Aborigines by Chinese and other Aliens". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1795 Report on "the Barron Valley Farmers and Progress Association and its opposition to the employment of Aboriginals by coloured Aliens". In a letter to the Sub-Inspector of Police in Cairns the Association has demanded that something be done about "aliens" employing Aboriginals and that heavy fines be imposed. Roth advises that he has spent a week in Atherton investigating the situation. He describes ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1829 Queensland State Archives ITM6826 96/14640 Correspondence in relation to the supply of rations for the Kamerunga Aboriginals. The report from Archibald Meston suggests that Kamerunga is not a suitable location to distribute rations and they would go to Kuranda, where the police distribute rations, if they wanted food. Meston also comments ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1830 Queensland State Archives ITM6826 96/14640 Correspondence in relation to the supply of rations for the Kamerunga Aboriginals. The report from Archibald Meston suggests that Kamerunga is not a suitable location to distribute rations and they would go to Kuranda, where the police distribute rations, if they wanted food. Meston also comments that Kamerunga "was originally used as a burial ground and as such was visited only during the ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1832 Archibald Meston suggests that Kamerunga is not a suitable location to distribute rations and they would go to Kuranda, where the police distribute rations, if they wanted food. Meston also comments that Kamerunga "was originally used as a burial ground and as such was visited only during the performance of funeral ceremonies". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 1937 mentions the reserve on Fraser Island and that 52 Aboriginals have been removed from Maryborough to Fraser Island; also mentions Durundur and that it will be used to accommodate some of the coastal Aboriginals and those removed from the west; the reserve near Cairns extending from False Bay to the Mulgrave River will be able to accommodate all the Aboriginals in north Queensland; discusses the mission stations at Deebing Creek, Marie Yamba, Bloomfield River, ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2013 The following entries name the Aboriginal employee or employees: T Bowman of Harrisville: Beeba (a Cairns boy) JG Dickson of via Mitchell: half caste Collins. Mrs Gillies (Constable) of Dalby: Amelia Combo. Mrs JJ ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2149 Queensland State Archives ITM6826 00/7572 Contains a telegram from the Sub-Collector of Customs in Cairns: "Please inform me if agreements with female half caste under aboriginal act is binding said half caste having lived in white family before and since act was passed". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2494 aboriginal, body and soul for twelve months, is not worth the amount, and the public generally do not feel disposed to feed them gratis, therefore some steps will have to be taken to supply them with food or shift them to a reserve". The file also contains associated correspondence from Cairns in relation to complaints that shipping masters have to pay a shipping fee and a work agreement fee under the new Act to employ Aboriginal labourers in the beche-de-mer trade. Also contains ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2498 under the new Act to employ Aboriginal labourers in the beche-de-mer trade. Also contains correspondence in relation to Walter Roth preventing the 'Daultless' and 'Curlew' from sailing from Cairns to the Coral Sea outside Queensland waters with Aboriginal labourers on board, including an article from the April 28, 1898 edition of the Cairns Post. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2499 correspondence in relation to Walter Roth preventing the 'Daultless' and 'Curlew' from sailing from Cairns to the Coral Sea outside Queensland waters with Aboriginal labourers on board, including an article from the April 28, 1898 edition of the Cairns Post. Suggests that the beche-de-mer trade was nearly ruined by Roth's decision, but fortunately the ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2519 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/6934 Report from Walter E Roth dated May 27, 1898 from Cooktown to the Commissioner of Police. Roth expresses his surprise that a deputation of graziers who met the Premier in Cairns suggested that the Aboriginals Protection Act was enacted to remove Aboriginals to reserves. He states that this is "a false impression" ... "originally emanating in the imagination of mischievous whites". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2594 Aboriginals Protection Act; he is unhappy about the decision to allow shipping masters to employ Aboriginals without a work permit; advises that he gave Sub- Inspector Fergusson permission to remove two Aboriginal women from Cairns to Brisbane, when asked for the agreements Fergusson stated that he had been informed by Meston that Police officers did not require agreements, Roth suggests that the Act should be enforced the same as it is in the north. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2631 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/7160 Letter from the Cairns Police Station to the Commissioner of Police dated June 2, 1898 in relation to the employment of Aboriginals by Chinese and other aliens. The letter advises that a great many Chinese and South Sea Islanders have been employing Aboriginals and this has led to abuses of Aboriginals. There ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2640 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/7179 Report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898. Advises that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his capacity as Aboriginal Protector. The visit was in response to the "wishes expressed by the ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2641 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/7179 Report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898. Advises that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his capacity as Aboriginal Protector. The visit was in response to the "wishes expressed by the Honourable TJ Byrnes the Premier that he would like to know the feelings of the Cairns district with ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2643 travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his capacity as Aboriginal Protector. The visit was in response to the "wishes expressed by the Honourable TJ Byrnes the Premier that he would like to know the feelings of the Cairns district with regard to the amending of the Aboriginal Act". He advises that he met with the various progress associations and "fully explained the Act at the meetings referred to". He interviewed 500 Aboriginals ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2660 main resolutions of the meetings include: Asiatics, Chinese and Malays should not be able to employ Aboriginal labour, Aboriginals should not be removed because they "pine for their native country and friends and die under the confinement". Also includes related newspaper articles from the Cairns Advocate. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2760 1898. Advises that the provisions of the Act have been carried out with as little friction as possible; about 1100 permits have been issued; John Douglas on Thursday Island, Inspector Marrett in Cooktown and Inspector Cooper in Cairns report that with regard to the Act everything is working smoothly; the subsidy for Cape Bedford mission has been continued; a hospital at 8Mile Creek has been erected for sick Aboriginals; all Aboriginal women and children under puberty have been ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2777 Updated October 2024 in Cairns grossly misrepresented the Aboriginals Protection Act. The deputation of graziers suggested that the Aboriginals Protection Act was enacted to remove Aboriginals to reserves. He states that this is "a false impression" ... "originally emanating in the imagination of mischievous whites". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2785 the fishing net has arrived for Cape Bedford mission and that he intends to deliver it personally; he proposes a visit to the Aboriginals at the Daintree River, 140 of whom are sick on Mr Fisher's station. He then proposes visiting Cairns, Atherton, Ingham and Cardwell. Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/9478 ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2823 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/9567 Copy of the report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898 advising that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2824 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/9567 Copy of the report from Sub-Inspector Cooper sent from Cairns and dated June 3, 1898 advising that he travelled from Cairns to the Tate River police station visiting the Aboriginal camps on the way in his ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2856 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 No letter number Letter from Walter Roth at Bellenden Kerr Mission Station to the Commissioner of Police dated 1898. Advises that he went to see the Sub-Collector in Cairns in relation to two Aboriginal women on the 'Spitfire' for which he had blamed the Shipping Master (no other details). He learned, however, that permission had been granted by the police sergeant in Inspector Cooper's absence. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2886 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 No letter number Letter from B Marshall sent from Coffee Farm, Hambledon to Walter Roth in Cairns dated August 5, 1898. He advises that the Aboriginals from the Yarrabah mission under the charge of the Reverend Gribble have picked the whole of his coffee crop. He states that he is very happy with the work done. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2893 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 No letter number Two telegrams from Walter Roth in Cairns to the Commissioner of Police dated August 1898. The first advises that he has returned from the Bellenden Kerr mission with a collection of photographs ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2901 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 No letter number Two telegrams from Walter Roth to the Commissioner of Police dated July 1898. The first sent from Cairns advises that he is leaving for the Bellenden Kerr Mission Station. The second sent from Cooktown advises: "find that local boats at Port Douglas do not suit time table of boat from north this would mean requisition pilot boat and engaging special services an unnecessary expense leaving ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2904 Cooktown advises: "find that local boats at Port Douglas do not suit time table of boat from north this would mean requisition pilot boat and engaging special services an unnecessary expense leaving therefore direct for Cairns will visit Daintree on return journey". Queensland State Archives ITM17980 98/9665 ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2914 shelling or beche-de-mer boats. However, Roth is upset that he has received a telegram from the Government Resident on Thursday Island informing that the 'Spitfire' was in that port with two Aboriginal women on board who had been shipped from Cairns, he hopes that the government will regulate so that Protectors "have a legal say in the matter". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2998 Queensland State Archives ITM17980 No letter number Telegram from Walter Roth at Musgrave to the Commissioner of Police dated November 1898: "Please try visit Cairns Bloomfield and Cape Bedford missions on your journey north will advise you whenever possible as to my movements". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3210 customs impact on the health of the Aboriginals; comments on the removal of "half-caste" and "true- blooded" children to missions and reserves to separate them from their "aboriginal environments" and mentions Jenny from Cairns who was mentioned in the Home Secretary's speech to the Legislative Assembly in December 1900, Nellie described as a "half-caste Kananka" from the Murray River/Cardwell district and Topsy from Torrens Creek; comments on mixed marriages, whites ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3286 Queensland State Archives ITM17981 99/11344 Correspondence from Cairns and Cooktown in relation to the expenses incurred in the search for the murderers of Paul Paulsen. It is alleged that Aboriginals murdered Paulsen at the Chester River. Mentions hiring a boat and that Constable Kenny and two Native Police troopers accompanied the ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3410 Queensland State Archives ITM17981 02/7734 Large file in relation to Darkie who was jailed for the murder of George Hobson. Darkie was tried and convicted of the murder of Hobson in the Circuit Court, Cairns on February 2, 1891 and sent to St Helena. The file includes a petition dated 1894 pleading for his release. A second petition dated 1896 states that Darkie had been convicted of murdering his employer who lived at Myola, Barron River. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3426 trail and sent to the Nigger Creek Native Police camp as a recruit. Contains a fourth petition for the release of Darkie, which was also denied. A telegram advises that Darkie was released during the Jubilee celebrations and sent to Fraser Island but that he escaped and made his way to Cairns where he was arrested. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3435 is still at large. The letter from Meston advises that Darkie has been brought from Cairns and sent to Durundur. Meston states: "I sent him on to Durundur where he will be quite contented. He knows who he is dealing with now". ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3923 a son named Toby who was reared by Mr Moran the Police Magistrate in Cunnamulla -Charley was sent to work with Mr Chatterton the Stock Inspector, George and Daylight who served time in St Helena, Darkey from Cairns and Larry sent to Durundur. He also mentions three Native Police troopers sent down to him and "I learn that there are two more on the way down. The three are supposed to be concerned in some recent trouble in the north and these men were sent down by the ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3949 Queensland State Archives ITM17981 02/16865 Correspondence in relation to a boating accident on Moreton Bay involving Katie Mackay. Katie is described as a "pure aboriginal"; she worked for Mrs Mackay the butcher's wife in Cairns. Mrs Mackay brought her to Brisbane where she worked for Mr Pratton of the Railway Department. There is a recommendation that she be removed to Durundur. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 3954 Queensland State Archives ITM17981 02/17956 Letter from Walter Roth in Cairns dated October 1902 advising that he shall finish up his annual work in Bowen and Mackay and be in Brisbane for Christmas. He also advises that if there are any lepers at Townsville or Ingham for removal to Friday Island he will take them on the same terms as before. ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 4811 and Eulbertie waterhole on Coopers Creek. The blacks at both these places had only recently shifted camp"; Rosie aged 24 years and Nelly aged 15 years were removed from Tanbar station to Whitula, one of the girls will be sent to Mrs Cairns of Currawilla and the other to the Postmaster's wife at Windorah or to Mrs Oliffe at Hammond Downs; the Aboriginals are now coming in to Whitula from several locations; comments that the Aboriginals are not getting their wages. "I think that those who get any ## 1131-qsa-home-secretary-office-1896-1903-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 5317 Letter from Archibald Meston to the Under Secretary dated August 1901 suggesting that if Aboriginal prisoners are to be sent to Fraser Island after release a more effective and authoritarian management should be implemented. The file also contains a telegram from Sergeant McGuire in Cairns. Correspondence advises: "Constable Creedy leaves here tonight per Innamincka escorting incorrigible aboriginal Jackey to Frasers Island [Fraser Island]". ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 2110 Mackenzie River divisions. This report also mentions troopers Marmaduke, Billanbe, Degilbery, Carlo and Otho. The file also contains a report from Lieutenant Rudolph Morisset on an inspection tour of the detachments at Mimosa Creek and Spring Creek. This report mentions trooper Grauly. Queensland State Archives ITM846772 COL/A42 63/1556 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 5278 Queensland State Archives ITM846945 COL/A215 75/3213 Petition from Adam Grant to his Excellency William Wellington Cairns asking for a pension because all his working life he was exposed to “great danger from the blacks”. Mentions the spearing of his livestock at Surat and between the Balonne River and the Condamine River. Also mentions the ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 5643 telegram from Inspector T Clohesy relating to the dissatisfaction of some police constables with their pay but that also includes the following reference: “In consequence of hearing about blacks being shot at White Cliffs I returned with Isley who is now in Cairns”. Queensland State Archives ITM846972 COL/A242 77/3817 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 5713 Queensland State Archives ITM846978 COL/A248 77/5357 Telegram from Edmond Morey at Cairns dated November 11, 1877 advising that “three timber getters murdered by blacks on Daintree River proceed at once to Salisbury to hold enquiry”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 5968 Updated July 2025 Isley but as his district also embraces Thornborough, Cairns and other places further north, the result has been that for the last 18 months he has never been here”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6061 Letter from Atherton requesting that a detachment of Native Police is needed at the newly discovered tin mines known as Tinaroo on the Upper Barron River because the Aboriginals have been spearing cattle and horses and the new road between Tinaroo and Cairns will become untraversable. The letter also mentions that the Native Police camp is at present located at the Mitchell waterfall about a mile from the Upper Barron. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6182 Queensland State Archives ITM847009 COL/A279 79/2469 Telegram from James Pyne in Cairns: “five settlers camp cleared out by blacks yesterday near Cairns all poor men must have protection”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6542 Queensland State Archives ITM847029 COL/A298 80/4813 Telegram from the Police Magistrate in Cairns dated September 3, 1880: “Inspector Fitzgerald Johnstone River reports blacks attacked and robbed survey camp and murdered a Kanaka”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6554 Queensland State Archives ITM847029 COL/A298 80/4954 Letter from the Cairns Divisional Board advising that the attached list of signatures should have been included with the previously posted Petition, which asked for the relocation of the Native Police camp closer to Mulgrave. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6617 Queensland State Archives ITM847035 COL/A304 80/6821 Correspondence from Cairns and Burketown re the alleged abduction of three Aboriginal children from Liverpool Creek and their detention at Sweers Island. The authorities in Cairns instructed John White the Coxswain of the Pilot Boat to return the children to their home. However, he was unable to find their ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6618 Queensland State Archives ITM847035 COL/A304 80/6821 Correspondence from Cairns and Burketown re the alleged abduction of three Aboriginal children from Liverpool Creek and their detention at Sweers Island. The authorities in Cairns instructed John White the Coxswain of the Pilot Boat to return the children to their home. However, he was unable to find their “proper tribe” and returned them to Cairns where they are to be placed out into “suitable” homes. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 6620 Liverpool Creek and their detention at Sweers Island. The authorities in Cairns instructed John White the Coxswain of the Pilot Boat to return the children to their home. However, he was unable to find their “proper tribe” and returned them to Cairns where they are to be placed out into “suitable” homes. Queensland State Archives ITM847035 COL/A304 80/6841 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7082 Updated July 2025 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns reporting that he was unable to distribute any blankets to the Aboriginals because he could not get a message to them. “I would beg to suggest, as the only way I know to effect this object, that the Sub-Inspector of Native Police on his next visit to this locality, be instructed to try ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7219 Queensland State Archives ITM847044 COL/A313 81/2176 Return of the patients received into the Cairns District Hospital: entry for an Aborigine named Dicky. Queensland State Archives ITM847044 COL/A313 81/2183 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7555 Queensland State Archives ITM847053 COL/A322 81/4263 Petition from the residents of Cairns dated August 30, 1881complaining that the Aboriginals have been spearing horses and “com m itted numerous other depredations - principally in the neighbourhood of the selections on the Cairns and Herberton road between the Mulgrave and Cairns”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7557 Petition from the residents of Cairns dated August 30, 1881complaining that the Aboriginals have been spearing horses and “com m itted numerous other depredations - principally in the neighbourhood of the selections on the Cairns and Herberton road between the Mulgrave and Cairns”. They also raise concerns that Sub-Inspector Frederick Carr's patrols of the district are too infrequent and ask for a Native Police camp to be established in the vicinity of Cairns. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7559 neighbourhood of the selections on the Cairns and Herberton road between the Mulgrave and Cairns”. They also raise concerns that Sub-Inspector Frederick Carr's patrols of the district are too infrequent and ask for a Native Police camp to be established in the vicinity of Cairns. Queensland State Archives ITM847054 COL/A323 81/4342 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7562 Queensland State Archives ITM847054 COL/A323 81/4342 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns reporting that he accompanied Sub-Inspector Frederick Carr and Reverend Wood to distribute blankets, fishing hooks and rations to 18 Aboriginals at False Cape. The letter also advises that Carr brought an interpreter with him “who explained why these ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7576 Queensland State Archives ITM847055 COL/A324 81/4503 Letter dated October 17, 1881: “Referring to the letter from the Police Magistrate at Cairns dated the 31st August last, recommending that a reserve be established for Aboriginals at Cape Bedford [Hope Valley], the Under Colonial Secretary is informed that a reserve for that purpose has already been set ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7753 Queensland State Archives ITM847065 COL/A334 82/1568 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns asking for payment of the steamer fares for sending three Aboriginals from Cairns to Townsville. The three had earlier been arrested under warrant issued at Cooktown. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 7754 Queensland State Archives ITM847065 COL/A334 82/1568 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns asking for payment of the steamer fares for sending three Aboriginals from Cairns to Townsville. The three had earlier been arrested under warrant issued at Cooktown. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8115 Queensland State Archives ITM847076 COL/A345 82/4977 Two telegrams from the Police Magistrate in Cairns relating to a murder at the Mulgrave River, the first advises: “reported last night that body of Chinaman found near Fisheries Crossing of Mulgrave supposed murdered by blacks is going to hold inquiry”. The second advises that: “returned last night ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8226 Queensland State Archives ITM847085 COL/A354 83/748 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns dated February 10, 1883: “I have the honour to inform you that the Aboriginal child “Mary” who is licensed to the late Mr Thomas M Latreille from the Orphanage, leaves here by the SS Quiraing with Mrs Latreille, who will see you respecting her on ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8684 Queensland State Archives ITM847124 COL/A393 84/4487 Petition sent from Cairns by the residents of Trinity Inlet, Mulgrave River, Russell River and Barron River complaining about the “numerous depredations of the blacks roaming about the above named rivers” and asking that a Native Police camp be established in the district. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8749 Queensland State Archives ITM847126 COL/A395 84/5171 Telegram from Tom Thomas on behalf of the Herberton timber getters sent from Cairns and dated July 23, 1884: “Oblige us by suspending action regarding removal of Nichols native police camp Herberton until ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8777 Queensland State Archives ITM847127 COL/A396 84/5441 Telegram from the Police Magistrate in Cairns dated August 4, 1884: “reported last night man named Jack Regan living on MacManus selection Russell River is missing supposed killed by blacks police have been communicated with”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 8848 Queensland State Archives ITM847137 COL/A406 84/7964 The file contains a letter from R Walker at Sapphire Plantation Mulgrave River, Cairns district asking for Native Police protection because “there are a thousand blacks in this district” and, he alleges, they have been murdering selectors. The file also contains a report from Sub-Inspector Frederick Carr on the ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 9301 Queensland State Archives ITM847172 COL/A441 85/7803 Correspondence from the Pyramid Sugar Company, Cairns complaining that the Aboriginals are setting fire to their sugar cane and that they have been attacking their employees. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 9311 Updated July 2025 Letter from the Pyramid Sugar Company, Cairns acknowledging receipt of a telegram advising them that “there is a prospect of some police protection from the depredations of the blacks in this district”. [see ITM847172 – 85/7803] ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 9728 Queensland State Archives ITM847215 COL/A484 86/7912 Brief note – no details: “Benches PM Cairns re Riley stealing a blackboy. “Previous 86.7850 Police; Police. Steps to be taken to get the boy returned B/C 13.10.86”. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 11152 Queensland State Archives ITM847358 COL/A627 90/9260 Letters from John Gribble asking for land at Bellenden Kerr (Cairns district) to set up an Aboriginal Mission School. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 11247 Queensland State Archives ITM847366 COL/A635 90/11493 Correspondence from Cooktown and Cairns in relation to the abduction of Aboriginal women. Kanakas are accused of abducting five Aboriginal women from Baileys Creek and Saltwater Creek and taking them to Bloomfield. The Native Police returned them to their homes. Their tribe had threatened ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 11410 government’s treatment of the Aboriginals. Rentoul replies that while [he was] in the north there were several murders and acts of reprisal by the Native Police. He suggests that this is the “normal condition of things between Cairns and the Russell River southward, [and] away northward all through the York Peninsula. You know what the method and law of police dispersions are, with the orders to render “no report”. The file also contains a newspaper article from the Evening Observer on the subject. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 12216 Queensland State Archives ITM847438 92/10411 Admission notice to Goodna Asylum for Albert a young Aboriginal man originally from Cairns and lately of Sandgate. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 12927 Queensland State Archives ITM847489 94/234 Proclamation notice for the gazettal of a reserve at Point Parker, Cairns for an Aboriginal Mission Station. ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 12957 Queensland State Archives ITM847490 94/987 List of prisoners interviewed by the Colonial Secretary. Entries for Aboriginal prisoners Fred Dingo sentenced at Bundaberg and Darkie sentenced at Cairns. Queensland State Archives ITM847491 94/1054 ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 13199 Queensland State Archives ITM847511 94/10011 Letter from the Police Magistrate in Cairns complaining about a directive from the Colonial Storekeeper that requires a return for the distribution of blankets to Aboriginals to be completed. He suggests that the returns are “absurd and ridiculous”. There is a requirement to obtain the name, physical ## 1130-qsa-colonial-secretary-office-1859-1896-index-pdf-official.pdf lines around 13419 Correspondence from the British New Guinea Prospecting Syndicate advising that two of the Aboriginals that accompanied them on a trip to New Guinea have deserted [see also ITM847522 – 95/2909]. The two are named as Tommy and Mularia from the Russell River (Cairns) district. Queensland State Archives ITM847528 95/11775 ## 1138-find-and-connect-qld-series-4354-miscellaneous-items-and-correspondence-files.pdf lines around 144 and staff. File accompanied by a letter to Mrs 1947- Restricted, ITM716334 M.M. Fisher dated 8 Sep 1964 1964 opens 2029 https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM716334 Lockhart River Mission, Iron Range, via Cairns. ITM716350 Appendix 16 (4 copies) 1956 Open https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM716350 ## 1138-find-and-connect-qld-series-4354-miscellaneous-items-and-correspondence-files.pdf lines around 339 Rockhampton, Woorabinda, Weipa, Lockhart River, Townsville, Mt Isa, Mornington Is, 1973- ITM716547 Kowanyama, Hope Vale, Cairns, Bamaga 1974 Open https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM716547 Black Children's Group Home association (correspondence, related papers and receipt 1977-