 In one account, Jardine is said to have organised a substantial retribution where 32 local people were killed.In the months after this incident Jardine received an extra five Native Police troopers and also decided to sell the troubled Point Vallack cattle station to the government.In June 1869, Jardine discovered that the captain and crew of a pearl-trading cutter named the "Sperwer" had been killed and their boat burnt by the Kaurareg people living on Muralag Island in the Torres Strait.