The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sunday 2 September 1804 NATIVES. The Natives have during the last week been very troublesome about Lane Cove. On Tuesday and Wednesday a party visited the farm of Mr.Wilshire, where they bound the labouring servants, and seemed disposed to remain until expelled by famine. The poor mens store allowance they unbound one, and obliged him to cook; potatoes, vegetables, and such articles of poultry as had accidentally fallen in their way assisted in the fête, and the first day they devoted to mirth and jocularity. Accounts, however, reached town the next morning; and Mr. Wilshire immediately prepared to render- assistance to his servants. Accompanied by several persons armed with firelocks, he arrived at the farm in the afternoon, and was welcomed with shouts of defiance from the barbarous ranks, who formed into subdivi- sions, and anticipated triumph with the bran- dished spear. A blank discharge proved of no other efficacy than to provoke them to irony, so that any attempt to repel them by intimidation only, promised to encourage their excesses. A discharge of shot convinced them of the danger of maintaining their position, and they fled precipitately to an eminence, where they were joined by a prodigious number, unperceived before, having taken with them all the servants necessaries and bedding. The men supposed, that at various intervals during the period of their captivity, the number of the natives must have exceeded 200. Shortly after their expulsion from the farm they dispersed, and may not, it is to be hoped, return.
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