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[written at top] Boards Div'n Port Douglas Requests that Native Trooper be allowed to remain

Electric Telegraph, Queensland

Wds. 140

Amt 11/10

From Pt Douglas 11 h. 40 m.

Dated 14 3 1885

Message for Hon Col Secy

Brisbane

*** arrived here last night
at selectors homestead on Mossman
only about five (5) miles &
half from town being stuck
up by blacks & the
owner a young man well
known & highly respected carried
away by the Blacks the
tracks were traced by blood
marks last night till dark
Party left here this morning
three (3) oclock no news