Blood Hole massacre

When Blood Hole massacre that about twelve kilometers away in Australia on Middle Creek, from the Glengower - cattle station, occurred between Clunes at Ballarat and Newstead in Victoria, end of 1839 or early in 1840, was an unknown number of Aboriginal people from the tribe of Dja Dja Wurrung murdered.

During the construction of the Glengower station gave the employees of the owner of the kennel, Captain Dugald McLachlan, the Aborigines flour and sugar rations and they employ it occasionally. As was a mixture of gypsum plaster distributed to Aboriginal people instead of flour, it came to a confrontation with the kitchen staff, as a result of the cooking speared by Aborigines and the camp was looted ( it took a quarter of a sheep in itself).

Then followed McLachlan and his employees, the Aborigines to the water hole at Middle Creek west of Glengower station. The Aborigines tried by diving into the water hole to hide, but as soon as one of them showed up for air, he was shot.