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Southland Times, Volume 3, Issue 102, 17 October 1863, Page 7

TnE Blacks tn tue Far North. — Chief Inspector Hamilton, writing by the last mail from the F.ir North, on the Of Ii September, states that he had reached Angipena, and expected to arrive at Lake Hope in about a week. The only outrage which he mentions he had heard the blacks had committed was an attack upon some women at an out-si&tion, who wore, however, preserved from injury by the opportune return of their husbands, one of whom caught one of the natives and gave him a sound dressing. In some places unprotected huts had been robbed, and some cattle had been speared. The natives, however, appeared to have come down with no warlike intentions as supposed ; but their mission seemed to have been to the Aroona Kanges, where they collected a kind of red clay, and then returned. — South A ustralian liegister. "No doubt," said a footman to short little gentleman w ho had insulted him, * you think yourself three times ns good as T am, for I am only a footman, while you are a three-foot man." Why is a man in a rage like a haid baked loaf?— Because he is crusty.