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James Venture Mulligan, who was on the Etheridge Goldfield, when the news of Hann's discovery of gold arrived, collected a party of five men to prospect the new locality on the Palmer. Travelling via Mount Surprise, the Rocky Tate, the Tate, the Walsh and the Mitchell Rivers the party reached the Palmer on June 29, 1873.
The party had barely settled down, when the natives entered their formal protest against the trespass. An attempt to burn the camp out having been foiled, was followed by the discharge of stones from an adjacent hill and shouts of defiance and the brandishing of spears. A modus vivendi was afterwards arranged.