CCL Henry Bingham enters search for Merriman and Harlequin

On the 25th of September 1840, Commissioner for Crown Lands, Henry Bingham called at Mr. E. Huon’s station and received information that the five black ringleaders who had committed the siege at Dr Mackay’s station on the Ovens River, had been seen.

The next morning CCL Bingham, Mr E. Huon, two policemen and two black trackers set off in pursuit and “For four successive days we tracked them across swamps and gullies, and over mountains and rocks for upwards of fifty miles and in places we were obliged to go on foot, as the track was impassable to horses.”

With the assistance of the two trackers, they traced them as far as the Ovens River where they lost their tracks and concluded they had gone to the head of the Goulburn.

REFERENCE:

The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 – 1842) Fri 30 Oct 1840 NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR.

 

 

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