Part 243 (1/2)

”The squatters, as they are called, are men who occupy with their cattle, or their habitations, those spots on the confines of a colony or estate which have not yet become any person's private property By the natural increase of their flocks and herds,been allowed to enjoy the advantages of asany rent for it to the government, they have removed elsewhere when the spot was sold, and have not unfrequently gained enough to purchase that or some other property Thusthe squatter has been converted into a respectable settler But this is too bright a picture to fore specimen

Unfortunately, inally of depraved and lawless habits, and they have made their residence at the very outskirts of civilization aon all manner of mischief Or soh roadthere the squatters knock up what is called a `hut' In such places stolen goods are easily disposed of, spirits and tobacco are procured in return”

Ibid p 334:

”The rich proprietors have a great aversion to the class of squatters, and not unreasonably, yet they are thus, er scale”

1846 J L Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,'

vol i c ix p 260:

”This capital of Australia Felix had for a long time been known to some squatters from Tasmania”

1846 T H Braim, `History of New South Wales,'

vol i p 235:

”A set of e estate, and ere known by the name of squatters

These were ticket-of-leave holders, or freedreat public road, or on the outskirts of an estate”

1897 Australian Steaation Company, `Guide Book,'

p 29:

”Nowaday squattersthat in March, 1836, a petition was being largely signed for the prevention of `squatting, through which so ' was but another ter stolen property, and harbouring bushrangers and assigned servants The ternates--without which where would Australia now be?--was not in vogue till 1842”

(2) A pastoral tenant of the Crown, often renting froe at an almost nominal sum The ter and running stock on freehold land

Pastoralist is now the more favoured term

1840 F P Labillicre, `Early History of the Colony of Victoria' (edition 1878), vol ii p 189:

”In a memorandum of December 19th, 1840, `on the disposal of Lands in the Australian Provinces,' Sir George Gipps informs the Secretary of State on the subject, and states that,--'A very large proportion of the land which is to form the new district of Port Phillip is already in the licensed occupation of the Squatters of New South Wales, a class of persons who to confound with those who bear the saenerally persons of mean repute and of small means, who have taken unauthorized possession of patches of land A the Squatters of New South Wales are the wealthiest of the land, occupying, with the permission of the Governood faland, officers of the are, are also in no sst them'”

1844 `Port Phillip Patriot,' July 8, p 3, col 3:

”The petitioner has already consigned the whole country to the class squatter in perpetuity”

1845 R Howitt, `Australia,' p 165:

”The squatters of Australia Felix will meet on horseback, upon Bat a Mutual Protection Society From the Murray to the sea-beach, fro, let no squatter be absent”

1846 C P Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p 366:

”`Squatters' A word not to be found in `Johnson's Dictionary'; of Canadian extraction, literally to sit on the haunches: in Australia a ter obliged frequently to adopt that position”

1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition' (Introd), p 15:

”We were received with the greatest kindness by my friends the `squatters,' a class principally coentlearth, `Australia Felix,' p 168:

”The Port Phillip squatters, as occupants of the territory of New South Wales, were afterwards required to take out an annual depasturing licence in terms of a Colonial Act passed at Sydney”