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701:. At Constantine Point at the mouth of the Mulgrave River, Johnstone found a large gunyah and stole the mummified remains of an Aboriginal woman from it. Dalrymple's description was "The head of this mummy is small – the animal organs being developed to distortion, the mental being next to nil; in fact, it is of the very lowest type of human formation." Johnstone left two blankets and a tomahawk for "the bereaved relatives, who would doubtless rightly appreciate the exchange". The preserved corpse was given to the
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159:, and had several children with her, one of whom was Robert Johnstone's father. After the death of his wife, Samuel Need returned with his children to Britain and remarried. Due to their Indian heritage, his sons were disinherited by Need. One of the sons, Johnston Need, changed his name to John Johnstone, married Annie Easton, and moved to Tasmania in 1835 where Robert was born. It is notable that a number of other
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to clear them from the area. The brutal operations of the Native Police were well known throughout the colony and beyond, where troopers would usually "make a night attack on the slumbering tribe and generally slay a large number". A large group of
Aboriginal men, women and children were pursued by a Native Police force led by Sub-Inspector Johnstone, in April 1867. The group was camping on
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768:. For three days, Johnstone and his troopers searched all the native camps they could find in the mountains around the immediate region. At one of the camps they came across three Aboriginal women, one of who was gnawing on the dismembered feet of Mr. Conn. Another group "got their just deserts" when they were killed trying to flee to
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who speared livestock on this property which was once their land were punished in most cases by general massacre. However, he does point out that on one occasion he only shot dead the dogs of the
Aboriginals when it was discovered the main target, a man named Tallboy, had previously saved the life of
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Aboriginals as part of their duties. Johnstone describes one incident early in his stay where "the blacks" used their wooden shields as a movable barricade and the cover of smoke from deliberately lit fires in a counter-attack
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since 1837 and consisted of white officers in command of mounted and armed
Aboriginal troopers. The duty of the Native Police was to conduct punitive raids on Aboriginal communities that interfered in colonial expansion. Johnstone became a cadet in this force and was appointed Acting sub-Inspector to
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Queensland before retiring from government service in 1891. In his years of duty for the Native Police, Johnstone led many punitive expeditions and "dispersals" consistent with government policy,
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as a clerk of petty sessions in 1882. After a brief period back in Ingham as police magistrate and inspector of
Pacific Islanders, he was transferred to Bundaberg as police magistrate there until 1887. From 1887 til 1891 he was police magistrate for the Maryborough region. In 1891, Johnstone retired
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where the land was quickly deemed unsuitable for agriculture. Whilst at anchor during midday, a local
Aboriginal man was spotted taking a survey flag that was set up on a sandbank in the river. For this action, Johnstone, his troopers and others aboard the ship opened fire on this man who managed to
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Cardwell north to Cooper Point, searching every Aboriginal camp they came across. A member of this party later wrote that Johnstone "spoke of killing whole camps, not merely men but girls and piccaninnies"
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Cardwell at this time and led a mission to recover the boat, which they found and were preparing to re-float. As the men were preparing a meal about 120 Aboriginal men rushed towards the boat. In response, the group open fire, killing 8 native people. Brinsley Sheridan, who wanted
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near Fort Cooper at North Creek. Johnstone and his troopers mustered two local family groups of
Aboriginals living in the area and coerced confessions from a number of them by holding family members hostage and tying others to the stirrup irons of their horses and forcing them to run along with the
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in April 1867, where he encountered several Aboriginal camps, one of which contained more than 200 people. These camps "were dealt with in the usual and only effectual mode for restraining their savage propensities", which meant indiscriminate shooting of the occupants by Johnstone and his troopers
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officer in the years after the events at Hornet Bank. Although having armed settlers partake in the punitive expeditions of the Native Police was against official orders, Johnstone allowed West Fraser to participate on the "promise of secrecy and obedience". In fact, it was relatively common for
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became the property of Johnstone when he retired from the Native Police in 1881. He called the property "Molonga" meaning "devil-devil place" in a local Indigenous language, meant to frighten the Aboriginal people. Interestingly, the term Molonga was later used by Aboriginal people in western
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and Johnstone and his troopers proceeded there in the police boat. The group obtained water from a narrow lagoon about 2 miles long that ran parallel to the shore. While approaching the lagoon, a large number of Aboriginals came out of the camps and prevented Johnstone's advance. According to
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for Johnstone to fulfil his mission. Moresby described how the Aboriginal Native Police troopers surprised one camp of Aboriginals with "unrestrained ferocity", resulting in the deaths of several Aboriginal people. A six-year-old boy was brought back from the raid and sent for education to
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pastoral lease where cattle had been speared in February 1867. They sought refuge in caves at the top of a mountain, but were forced to jump off a cliff on Mount Mandarana of several hundred feet, rather than be face the carbines of the Native Police Force. The area is still known as
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resisted the troopers' approach. Johnstone punished their "insolence" with gunfire and this leader was one of those killed in the shooting. Johnstone sailed a little further up the river towards its bifurcation, noting the dense jungles and thick soil which could be exploited for
281:, his troopers, while returning to Nebo, were shot at by panic stricken workers at the Tierawoomba station. When taking cover from this unexpected attack, Johnstone found a large Aboriginal weapon-making site in a ravine between Tierawoomba and Blue Mountain.
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instructions, Johnstone did not fire a shot. When the Aboriginal group advanced to about 30 yards and were shipping their spears into their woomeras and were poised to throw, Dalrymple reporting that the "sniders opened upon them".
442:, but the other three craft were washed up on beaches to the north of the town. Up to ten of these crew members, including the captain, were found to have been killed by Aboriginals residing in this region. Lieutenant Sabine of the
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area by the name of Richard Bird Hall wrote several letters to the Queensland Government and to various newspapers about the murderous actions of Johnstone and his troopers. In particular, a massacre of Aboriginals working on
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1024:. He died here on 16 January 1905 and is buried at Toowong cemetery. He had nine children and some of his daughters married into notable families in Queensland society. His second daughter married one of the sons of
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for trial. Ominously, Johnstone himself describes a later patrol on Dunk Island as unnecessary as he "knew there was no blacks furthermore on this island." Dungaree was acquitted in Sydney but was forced to become a
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escape despite many rounds being fired at him. The troopers "were wild to go over for the purpose of teaching the myalls better behaviour". Two men followed the tracks for about a mile but failed to reach the camp.
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Throughout his career as a Native Police officer, Johnstone had the opportunity to collect plant and animal specimens that had not been seen by Europeans before. Probably the most notable was the
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After "the blacks" had robbed a hut at Dalrymple's Gap, sub-Inspectors Johnstone and Burrowes and their troopers tracked them to the coast at Seymour River estuary where they were "dispersed".
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in his Northeast Coast Expedition funded by the colonial Queensland government. This group was heavily armed with thirteen Native Police troopers assigned to the expedition. After leaving
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Johnston Need) and Annie Elizabeth Easton. His paternal grandfather was Lieutenant-General Samuel Need. Lieutenant-General Need married an Indian woman, most likely the daughter of
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is now located. "The blacks were given a proper warm reception" when Johnstone arrived and after proceeding inland for 3 miles his troopers dispersed another group of local
394:. During this decade of service, Johnstone was involved in numerous patrols, expeditions and massacres. Descriptions of the most notable are outlined chronologically below.
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on the property's homestead. Johnstone shot at them continuously from the verandah with multiple firearms pre-loaded by his wife. He "followed up" the Aboriginals as far as
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590:. The Aboriginals, including 3 men and 2 women, resented their treatment and killed two of the whites and stole the "Goodwill". The third, Daniel Kelly, escaped to nearby
1032:. His third daughter married into the orchard owning Mullett family of Monduran, while his eldest married Edgar Young a prominent Beenleigh resident. While having the
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to secure the safety of Cardwell, ordered Johnstone with his troopers "to inflict decisive punishment". Johnstone was aided by another Royal Navy officer in Captain
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depicting a white spirit who would cause havoc and steal young girls away. Johnstone utilised Molonga for cattle grazing, but later it was sold and became a famous
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was wrecked upon Bramble Reef. The survivors escaped the sinking ship on 3 boats and 2 rafts. Two of the boats made it safely to the nearest British settlement of
366:, while he stayed on at Bellenden Plains with the farmworkers. Johnstone "had a lively time of it" on the property until it was sold in 1871 to F.J.W. Beardmore.
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from public service and in 1896 moved near to one of his married daughters in Beenleigh. In the early 1900s, Johnstone moved to the Brisbane suburb of
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people first by firing on them from a distance and then charging amongst them. Johnstone's section then sailed to the mouth of what is now called the
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men and two women were killed with most of the corpses "left exposed on the roadside till they stank". The government and the commissioner of police,
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people while re-establishing the property. He went on several punitive missions with his "own black-boy" and also with the local Native Police led by
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fisherman Philip Garland killed a number of Aboriginals there while stealing a canoe. In 1876, Johnstone with other Native Police officers in
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that on 14 March near Mt Leach "I dispersed a large mob and returned to camp...on 21 February I succeeded in dispersing three mobs on the
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and sugar planter John Raymond Trevelian. In 1869, they appointed Johnstone as property manager to continue the Bellenden Plains project.
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the Native Police in 1867. In this year he also married Maria Ann Gibson at Lansdowne near Mackay. Gibson was the daughter of a
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Johnstone and his troopers sailed to the area in their police boat and found the "Goodwill" abandoned and burnt on a beach in
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to report the killings to another beche-de-mer fisherman named Philip Garland. The incident was reported to authorities in
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and Molonga Terrace in Graceville exists today where the property once was. She also called her beachside land at
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horses. Retributions against those identified were conducted with local squatter Sylvester "West" Fraser from
1399:"Blackgin's Leap: A Window into Aboriginal-European Relations in the Pioneer Valley, Queensland in the 1860s"
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in 1871. He was posted at various locations throughout coastal
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have similar family backgrounds involving Indian grandmothers.
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paramilitary force which operated in the British colony of
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2378:The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser
1563:Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis) (2013),
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1008:newspaper giving details of his career in the
476:killed a total of 93 local Aboriginals in the
1203:"Johnston Need, later known as John Johnston"
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1111:"Cinderella-style hunt for Indian ancestors"
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891:Tam O'Shanter Point incident (November 1879)
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422:Punitive expeditions after the wreck of the
1341:Mackay Mercury And South Kennedy Advertiser
1309:Mackay Mercury And South Kennedy Advertiser
562:Green Island killings (April and July 1873)
214:, Johnstone became property manager of the
2621:– via National Library of Australia.
2589:– via National Library of Australia.
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2510:– via National Library of Australia.
2478:– via National Library of Australia.
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2071:– via National Library of Australia.
2039:– via National Library of Australia.
2007:– via National Library of Australia.
1943:– via National Library of Australia.
1911:– via National Library of Australia.
1864:– via National Library of Australia.
1813:– via National Library of Australia.
1781:– via National Library of Australia.
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1640:– via National Library of Australia.
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1519:– via National Library of Australia.
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1324:– via National Library of Australia.
1253:– via National Library of Australia.
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546:Johnstone reported to Police Commissioner
116:, including those under the leadership of
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1879:. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. p. 137.
2315:Rare Fruit Council of Australia Archives
1823:
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1923:"MURDER OF SEARCHERS FOR BEECHE-DE-MER"
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1733:"THE LAST OF THE NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION"
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418:, finding a fishing net and two boxes.
265:men had speared five head of cattle at
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1142:"Re: Fountain Dale near Blidworth"
609:where the modern-day community of
500:A travelling correspondent to the
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206:Property manager in Mackay region
198:) and with those residing on the
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2019:"A MURDEROUS OUTRAGE BY BLACKS"
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16:British colonial police officer
2147:"The Douglas Schooner Tragedy"
1891:"THE CHARGE OF KILLING BLACKS"
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37:Sub-Inspector Robert Johnstone
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163:officers, such as Lieutenant
139:Early life and family history
736:The crew of a sugar trading
644:George Elphinstone Dalrymple
118:George Elphinstone Dalrymple
7:
2083:"The Herbert River Tragedy"
1336:"Narrow Escape at Aberdeen"
1264:Richards, Jonathan (2008).
574:with 3 European crew and 5
273:at the Cardowan run on the
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2537:"LECTURE BY MR. JOHNSTONE"
2179:"LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS"
1987:"EXPLORATION IN THE NORTH"
1875:Bottoms, Timothey (2013).
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558:I dispersed a large mob."
1992:The Sydney Morning Herald
1824:Poignant, Roslyn (2004).
1028:a prominent landowner at
1000:, a government appointed
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776:Founding of Cairns (1876)
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598:and Police Commissioner
412:Philip Frederic Sellheim
2649:Explorers of Queensland
2521:Kidd, Rosalind (1997).
1054:, J.W. Johnstone-Need,
1002:Protector of Aborigines
903:Molonga cattle property
586:to collect and process
218:run 10 km west of
94:Robert Arthur Johnstone
25:Robert Arthur Johnstone
1765:"LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY"
1721:. London: John Murray.
1715:Moresby, John (1876).
831:and beche-de-mer from
662:travelling companion.
515:David Thompson Seymour
172:Norwich Grammar School
110:Indigenous Australians
2490:"MR. R. A. JOHNSTONE"
2273:Johnstone, 1984, p. V
1877:Conspiracy of Silence
1652:"Spinifex and Wattle"
877:South Barnard Islands
827:area to work loading
794:Hodgkinson goldfields
531:Walter Jervoise Scott
507:Walter Jervoise Scott
466:Premier of Queensland
2574:The Brisbane Courier
2216:The Brisbane Courier
2152:Rockhampton Bulletin
2088:The Brisbane Courier
2056:Telegraph (Brisbane)
2024:Rockhampton Bulletin
1849:The Brisbane Courier
1828:Professional Savages
1689:Rockhampton Bulletin
1440:The Brisbane Courier
1038:freshwater crocodile
962:Crocodilus johnstoni
950:freshwater crocodile
732:incident (June 1874)
470:Arthur Hunter Palmer
410:squatters including
380:Far North Queensland
295:Hornet Bank massacre
133:freshwater crocodile
114:Far North Queensland
106:punitive expeditions
2523:The Way We Civilise
1844:"CRUELTY TO BLACKS"
1201:JohnstonTrevelyan.
990:Spinifex and Wattle
897:Tam O'Shanter Point
770:Hinchinbrook Island
699:Mount Bellenden Ker
566:In April 1873, the
416:Hinchinbrook Island
360:Tam O'Shanter Point
1928:Geelong Advertiser
1832:. New Haven: Yale.
944:Amateur naturalist
703:Museum of Brisbane
592:Oyster Quay Island
570:vessel arrived at
332:John Ewen Davidson
320:John Ewen Davidson
304:special constables
232:Colonial Australia
157:Saadat Ali Khan II
2426:"GENERAL EPITOME"
2413:978-1-4214-0135-5
2373:"Natural History"
1574:978-1-74331-382-4
1270:. Brisbane: UQP.
1140:McNaughton, Ken.
1099:Johnstone, page V
1061:978-0-9590470-0-4
742:Albert and Edward
730:Albert and Edward
652:Mourilyan Harbour
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