 One of these deputies, Edward Stone Parker, was responsible for a large area of eastern Victoria, including the Campbells Creek area, known as the Loddon Protectorate.When the Protectorate closed in 1848, some Dja Dja Wurrung remained and could still be seen in the bush and in the towns.Their numbers were small and overtaken by new settlers, the pastoral Chinese, ahead of the gold rush of the early 1850s.