The selectors in Gippsland especially are crippled; they find it impossible to get their land cleared.
You see, selectors were allowed to take up land on runs, or pastoral leases.
The land was much better than on our old selection, and there was good soil along the creek on both sides: I expected a rush of selectors out here soon.
A meeting of selectors had been held; war declared against the marsupial; and a hunt on a grand scale arranged for this particular Sabbath.
The sun went down, and the cool, dark evening reigned outside, but within the Rest the gathering was growing uproarious as the selectors gave free vent to spirits held in check for many weeks by the depressing weight of the unending drought.
They fought selectors in many various ways, and, in some cases, annoyed and persecuted them with devilish ingenuity.
Free selectorswe shall be When our journey's end we see.
When the immediate advent of selectors to a run became probable, the lessees endeavoured to circumvent them by dummying all the positions which offered the best means of blocking the selectors from getting to water.
The good selectors got most of the land, The dummies being afraid to stand.
A public meeting of non-resident selectors has been held at Rushworth.
The selectors give the squatters a great deal of trouble, and many of us think that the colonial governments have treated us very badly.
A certain animosity subsists between the squatters or pastoral lessees and the selectors who purchase on credit from Government blocks of land, which were formerly let to squatters.
The rain, which will be remembered as one of the greatest downpours ever experienced in the colony, did indeed save the forest selectors from annihilation.
Her husband, like too many other selectors in the wild and inhospitable Heytesbury forest--inhospitable until by laborious toil it has been reclaimed--was away at other work when the fire happened.
Never before have the selectors been driven half-blinded from their houses, which they had vainly sought to save, to find refuge only for their lives in their small green patches of cultivation.
I can't understand why free-selectors and mosquitoes should have been introduced into the arrangements of the world.
Free-selectors have their own troubles too, Kate," said he.
Nellie was telling me that at one land sale on the Darling Downs in Queensland the selectorsabout arranged matters among themselves beforehand.
Don't you recollect when they closed the road across Arranvale one drought 'cause the selectors were cutting it up a bit, drawing water from the reserve, and how everybody had to go seven miles further round for every drop of water?
Some selectors clean up a part of the ground of roots and logs, leaving all the big ringed timber standing, and plough it up.
Though these early selectors were driven into almost inaccessible scrub, they were at least within the region of heavy rainfall, and, even where some distance from permanent streams, suffered little from drought.
The State is a generous landlord, and every allowance is made for the difficulties of selectors in the earlier stages of their occupancy.
But these sinister predictions did not deter selectors from testing the question.
Twenty-two Acts were passed in 1865, among them one for the Prevention of the Careless Use of Fire, a Selectors Relief Act, the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act, and eight measures amending the Criminal law.
The immediate effect of the exclusive policy adopted by the pastoralists, however, was to force many selectors to take up land in dense scrubs on steep mountain slopes and in river pockets which were useless to stockowners.
The pack is presented to the two other selectors of cards, and, when the three have all been placed in it, the performer apparently pushes them home with the right hand.
The people in town are just the publicans and the storekeeper, and all the selectors around us are a very wild lot.
As they drove off Hugh was silent, wondering what effect the sight of the selectors might have had on Miss Grant.
The squatter leased it on easy terms, and bought it only when it had sufficient value to be desired by agriculturists or by selectors who posed as agriculturists.
There are at the present time three types of selectors in general use, and the mileage operated by means of these is probably considerably over 95 per cent of the total mileage so operated in the country.
He does this by means of semaphores operated by telephone selectors over the telephone line.
The keys employed at the dispatcher's office for operating selectors are shown in Fig.
If these coils were not employed, it is clear that the selectors nearer the dispatcher would get most of the current and those further away very little.
The other ends of these trunks will terminate in the wipers and also in the controlling magnets of second selectors serving this thousand.
In other words, by the line switch, the number of first selectors is determined by the traffic rather than by the number of lines.
In addition to the selectorsand connectors there are line switches, which are comparatively simple, one individual to each line.
Any selector may thus be adjusted for any station, and the selectors are thus interchangeable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selectors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
