Trouble of a Squatter

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 23, 5 August 1886, Page 4

Trouble of a Squatter

A refiK&F T ol^inisf drttikei whioli^ ' though not/ahbgetk^r \iniqu6, is stiß somewhat singular in squatting expe-'. riences, « wW'm^a^ ! ih the r 2n^>lvie(ncy ; Court, jifeU#*ns l^y; (p ■ays), vs^ys&fyiA9mfs namSCW.", Lockhars Mor^n,. , whip; applied for an unodnditional certificate, and a dispensatiofe^^h^e- Statutory dividend of 7s ij^^^^v^^h^ been thduSwueX: of a station known as the Sal^wy IDowns, 4n iho' Albert^ district glj^e.w.'^outh Wales, and also of betwg^ J^eyen and eight acres of ; valuable?/: freehold j in, . Tooraki In order to improve and re-stock his ■tation, a^ £ smb-p* " t . nwr^age "i> Dye? ] both hiSj^rp^ißbes to , the , Trust and AgeiJkc,yii?tJouipany ; olx Aiiistralia for £3%»lJP:o re. ln; June,. -j 1888, :the station Was stocked with 86,000 sheep aud he W^aaa^an offer of £6*»;000; but, ajs®jH©-^j^aeriß(i; it was worth ' £84,000, Tie AMu'sle^'to close . ; with i#4 purchaser^ 'Towards tho latter end t)f * (liOojnivJ'l ■•.'.<^ .■.'...11': .. . -.-•- J,' the sain§ r 3»Bni-i£her station waii yisited by a ve^ynSQßeiie draught, more than two-thindsnofithe.<«heep perished, and he sold 9,000 of those remainiag-for<2s 9d ea^h.-v3^f^penaTng~the ; wh^le of his pbrionai pr6perW"slnd th^loans" he was-enable^ Jto obtaanT frem his, friends f^carSng^^;brithW;Bta<ioii f li; was sold*ftpsr.der «f the Oompany f or £36,^00^ 3^sWd & Towak reaKscjd. £5,700. " J l4 r^rbrua^y;'; 1883, ' A owing to proceWng« with which he was threateH%3' J Dy'.|sonS'e of the men who wero wo?Mifgbn c theßiati6n foV arrears of wages, he was compelled to sequestrat* his estate. ..Appi^cation^granteUr