156 A HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF VICTORIA 



3s. a day ; two ordinary constables at 2s. 3d. a day ; Mr. Robert 

 Russell as surveyor, with two assistants, Messrs. F. R. D'Arcy and 

 W. Darke; Mr. R. S. Webb as collector of customs, with J. 

 Macnamara as tide waiter. 



The military staff was represented by Ensign King in charge 

 of a detachment of thirty men of the 4th Regiment. It cannot be 

 said that the scale of pay was adjusted with a very generous hand. 

 Captain Lonsdale had 300 per annum, and was allowed 100 as 

 outfit money, in consideration of the expense and difficulty of pro- 

 curing many articles required in the occupation of a new country. 

 The surveyor had 220 per annum, with 50 for outfit ; and the 

 collector of customs 200 a year. All civilians in Government 

 employ were allowed a ration of one pound of bread and one 

 pound of meat daily, in which, it is assumed, the highest officials 

 shared. 



Although the scales of salaries was approved by the Lords 

 Commissioners of the British Treasury, they ventured, in a fit of 

 severe economy, to express a hope that the system of granting 

 rations would be discontinued as soon as possible. 



Great was the excitement in the little settlement when, on the 

 29th of September, 1836, it was reported that a King's ship had cast 

 anchor in Hobson's Bay, as it was afterwards called in honour of 

 the gallant commander of the Rattlesnake, who first charted its 

 waters. The official landing took place on the 1st of October, when 

 Captain Lonsdale in uniformed state was escorted up the river in 

 the ship's long-boat, and received by the settlers with becoming 

 deference. 



The military contingent arrived four days later in the Stirling- 

 shire, and the advent of all the paraphernalia of official government 

 not only added materially to the small population, but invested the 

 place with an air of dignity and importance which the unauthorised 

 occupation had failed to confer. 



Pending the erection of the first Government House, a small 

 four-roomed cottage of the wattle and daub order of architecture on 

 part of the Western Market Reserve, Captain Lonsdale was the 

 guest of John Batman, greatly to the affected disgust of the irrit- 

 able Fawkner, who lost no opportunity of commenting unfavourably 



