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Relief Expedition Reports Anglo Aboriginal Skirmish
A Melbourne Adelaide dispatch recounts a relief expedition with Lakeland and Burk's party details. Black trackers report two naked whites seen on a raft north of Cooper's Creek, suspected to be Burke’s expedition. M Kinlay heads toward the indicated site amid mounting tension, while police seek the captured hair of the whites to verify identity. The report also notes a separate 1861 update from Adelaide about additional white men near Port Augusta and a mining news digest with Phillips Separator and several gold rush developments in Ballarat.
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Adalaide
D. B. Willde
M.L.C
Seo
Jvat
Blanchwater
Lake Hope
Barco
New Laken
Bik
M'Kinlay
M*kinlay
Tyre
Biscke
Adelaide
John Macadam
Cooper's Creek
Camela
Burkes
Black
M'Kinkay
Minlay
de Wilkie
Crown Lands
Coopers Creek
Burke
Mkinlay
M’kinlay
John Maradam
New Zealand
Phillip
Phillipa
Bell
Lydiard
Seymour Streets
Iran
Fhullips
Phillips
Ballzarat
Tuapeke
Grant
Quarts Mining Company
Entie Company
Opowibe
Bulldog
Glamorganshire
Vandoll
Forfanata
Sonnequenor
Glengower
Burnt Creek
Mtmury
Cartais
Ted
Gome
Dunolly
Theo
Thaly
Lewp
Redbank
Moonurabel
AL Radbanke
Nema
coUtwe
Amherst
Dunbar
Mount Greenock
Penne
United Britons
Melbourne
Pleasant Creek
Linwell
Prenchiman’s
Ararst