1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 47:
"The squatters (as owners of sheepstations are called)."
1868. J. Bonwick, `John Batman, Founder of Victoria,' p. 94:
"In the language of the times, Messrs. Evans, Lancey, and subsequently J. P. Fawkner, were squatters. That term is somewhat singular as applied to the latter, who asserts that he founded the colony to prevent its getting into the hands of the squatters. The term was then applied to all who placed themselves upon public lands without licence."
1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 265:
"It is not too much to say that all the early success of Australia was due to the squatters of New South Wales, who followed the steps of Captain McArthur."
1878. `The Australian,' vol. i. p. 532:
"I have been a super, a small freeholder, and a middling-sized squatter, at different times."
1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 165:
"The Squatters are the large leaseholders and landed proprietors of the colony, whose cry has always been that the country was unfit for agricultural settlement, and only adapted for the pastoral pursuits in which they were engaged. . . . It is true the old squatter has been well-nigh exterminated."