ATTACKED BY BLACKS.
TWO PLUCKY TEAMSTERS, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Port Darwin, June 10. Two teamsters, named Mulligan and Ligar, who were carrying rations to the Victoria Downs Station, wereattaoked by a large body of blacks. Ligar, although badly speared, assisted Mulligan to make a barricade among the waggons with flour bag 3. They stood a siege for three days and then drove off their assailants with rifles and escaped. The blacks returned and looted the camp and then made off.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9127, 11 June 1895, Page 5
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