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As some reflections were cast upon the Native Police by the report as to the murder of the man Stone, published in this journal on the 9th, we have been furnished by a correspondent with what are stated to be the real facts of the case. They are as follows:-- On Friday, the 21st ultimo, Mr. McMaster called at the barracks, and said that the blacks were on his run, and on the following Sunday information was again sent to the barracks as to the robbing of one of the huts—the Twelve-mile, on Miclare Creek. Sub-inspector Armstrong was then away, and Mr. Dunne the Acting-Sub-Inspector, being in charge of the barracks could not leave, but on the morning after Mr. Armstrong's return (Wednesday) Mr. Dunne started for Blair Athol, and arrived there on Thursday. Immediately on reaching the station he was told that the man Stone had been missing for some time, and the same evening he (Mr. Dunne) found the body about 400 yards from the Twelvemile hut, to which he was running when killed. From the state of the body and the tracks around it there is not the slightest doubt (our informant states) that the murder took place on or before (and not after) the day Mr. McMaster visited the barracks, as there was heavy rain on that day. Mr. Dunne tracked the blacks, and in their camp on the Dividing Range between Cotherstone and Leichhardt Downs, found several articles of clothing belonging to the murdered man.