n. originally the house with thenecessary buildings and home-premises of a sheep-run, and stillused in that sense: but now more generally signifying the runand all that goes with it. Stations are distinguishedas Sheep-stations and Cattle-stations.
1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. (Introd.):
«They . . . will only be occupied as distant stock-stations.»
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 120:
«Their [squatters'] huts or houses, gardens, paddocks, etc.,form what is termed a station, while the range of country overwhich their flocks and herds roam is termed a run.»
1868. J. Bonwick, `John Batman, Founder of Victoria,' p. 35:
«The lecturer assured his audience that he came here to preventthis country being a squatting station.»
1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 17:
«The sturdy station-children pull the bush flowers on mygrave.»
1890. E. D. Cleland, `The White Kangaroo,' p. 4:
«Station – – the term applied in the colonies to the homesteads ofthe sheep-farmers or squatters.»
1890. Rolf Boldrewood,'Miner's Right,' c. xviii. p. 171:
«Men who in their youth had been peaceful stockmen andstation-labourers.»
1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 125:
«I'm travelen' down the Castlereagh and I'm a station-hand,
I'm handy with the ropin' pole, I'm handy with the brand,
And I can ride a rowdy colt, or swing the axe all day,
But there's no demand for a stationhand along the Castlereagh.»