#1 Crossword Puzzle - Land Hunger: Belfast, 1851

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Across
  1. 1. What was the name of the period in the 1850s in Victoria when miners went looking for a precious ore?
  2. 2. How much were the Squatter’s Licence and Mining Licence fees?
  3. 6. Who was the Scottish squatter with a land selection of 26,000 acres?
  4. 12. What animal was central to a dispute between the Indigenous people and whalers that resulted in a massacre near Portland in 1834?
  5. 14. What was the King of Belfast’s other nickname?
  6. 15. What mining term describes small amounts of clay being dumped into a large container filled with water to dissolve the clay?
  7. 16. Who bought land in Port Fairy and established a town called Belfast?
  8. 17. Who was the Governor of New South Wales in 1851?
  9. 20. What term described an agreement to rent land?
  10. 22. What mining term describes using a wooden box with a handle on one side and a ridged bottom covered with hessian cloth to sort pieces of rock?
  11. 23. Who robbed people, banks, stagecoaches and mailmen?
  12. 24. What was the name of the special kind of currency note issued by the firm Rutledge and Co that provided credit?
Down
  1. 1. What is the name of the Indigenous people who live near Port Fairy, Portland and Warrnambool?
  2. 3. What term described an agreement to purchase land?
  3. 4. What was funded by the money raised from the special system of purchasing land for one pound an acre?
  4. 5. Who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Victoria?
  5. 7. What mining term describes the careful washing of rocky material in a shallow metal pan?
  6. 8. What was the name of the system that allowed investors to purchase land for one pound an acre?
  7. 9. Name the robber who twice held up the mailman in Belfast?
  8. 10. What punishment did the European settlers fear they would receive for committing atrocities against the Indigenous people?
  9. 11. Where was a group of Indigenous people massacred near Portland?
  10. 12. Who ran a business in Belfast, was a Magistrate and the first Member of Parliament to represent the region?
  11. 13. Who was the reigning English monarch in 1851?
  12. 18. Who was the whaler born in Launceston, later to become a farmer in Belfast?
  13. 19. What term described an illegal occupier of crown land who used it for grazing sheep beyond the prescribed limits of settlement?
  14. 21. What mining term describes the digging of a deep hole in the ground?