QSA861036 1861 Letter from Colonial Secretary to J. and A. Mortimer 19 March, Colonial Secretarys Office Letterbook, DR127327

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Brisbane, 19^th March, 1861. -

Sir,

The attention of the Government having been directed to an advertisement in the Moreton Bay Courier bearing your signatures, and having reference to an outrage alleged by you to have been committed by an Officer of the Native Police against the Blacks on your Station, I have the honor to request that you will inform me whether that advertisement was inserted by your direction, and whether there is any truth in the statement therein contained. -

Until further informed, the Government are unwilling to believe that circumstances so minutely detailed as ^ those in the advertisement referred to can have occurred on your Station, and to your personal knowledge without your feeling it incumbent upon you to bring them forthwith under the notice of the Government; and I have to request that you will at your earliest convenience, forward to me all information upon the matter that you may be able to furnish. -

I have &c.

(Sgd)

R. G. W. Herbert.

Mess^rs J. & A. Mortimer.