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the squatters, and, as time goes on, giving rise to com- 
plications as to the ownership more and more difficult of 
final solution. 
Many will no doubt assert that times have changed, 
and that the conditions of every thing are different from 
what they were when the lands were first granted, and 
that the terms and reservations under which they were 
granted are no longer applicable ; but it would be 
advisable for those who would make such assertions 
to make themselves acquainted with the original 
conditions and reservations and their objeft. I think, 
if they do so, they will find it difficult to modify 
them in favour of the grantee, and that they are 
quite as applicable now as they were formerly, and per- 
haps more so. 
Europeans, with very few exceptions, cannot endure 
aftual outdoor labour in this colony, and no one with a 
small capital will be inclined to risk it in trying any new 
industry inland where the supply of labour is a certain 
uncertainty. Under the present system of Immigration 
no encouragement is given to beginners, for, unless a 
person has capital enough to commence operations on a 
very large scale and in a populated district, the require- 
ments of the Immigration Laws will prevent him from 
employing indentured immigrants, who are well known 
to be the only regular labourers to be relied upon. 
Squatting should be firmly repressed, and carefully 
guarded against There are not wanting others than the 
half-breeds, who, under the present lax manner in which 
the law is enforced, are ready to occupy the Crown 
Lands, and indeed already do so, leading lives of immoral- 
ity and idleness, and to whom the word " work" is a 
