Fremantle Stuff > timeline > 1833
2 October. The colony' s first horse-race held on South Beach. Hitchcock: 23.
Twenty-one vessels arrived during 1833.
In that year two brothers named Velvic were murdered by natives between Bullscreek and Bannister Lagoon. Midgegoroo, one of the leaders of the tribe, was afterwards taken and shot on the spot where the Perth Deanery now stands.
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