Across
- 2. What term described an agreement to rent land?
- 4. Who robbed people, banks, stagecoaches and mailmen?
- 5. What was the name of the robber who twice held up the mailman in Belfast?
- 6. Who was the Scottish squatter with a land selection of 26,000 acres?
- 9. What was the name of the system that allowed investors to purchase land for one pound an acre?
- 10. What was the King of Belfast’s other nickname?
- 14. What was the money raised from the special system of purchasing land for one pound an acre used to fund?
- 15. Who ran a business in Belfast, collected money from land sales and rent, was a Magistrate and the first Member of Parliament to represent the region?
- 16. What term described an illegal occupier of crown land who used it for grazing sheep beyond the prescribed limits of settlement.
- 18. pounds How much were the Squatter’s Licence and Mining Licence fees?
- 19. What term described an agreement to purchase land?
- 20. 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?
Down
- 1. What mining term describes the careful washing of rocky material in a shallow metal pan?
- 3. Who was the whaler born in Launceston, later to become a farmer in Belfast?
- 7. What mining term describes the digging of a shaft up to 50 meters deep?
- 8. Who bought land in Port Fairy and established a town called Belfast?
- 11. Who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Victoria?
- 12. Who was the Governor of New South Wales in 1851?
- 13. Who was the reigning English monarch in 1851?
- 17. What was the name of the special kind of currency note issued by the firm Rutledge and Co that provided credit?
