Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) the Sydney Morning Herald.

1881		Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Apr. 3/4: Sometimes one meets with ‘jam’ instead of gospel in the S. M. Herald. Says that journal, in its report of the Austrian Band ball, ‘The most finished dress in the room was a Chinese costume worn by a lady who carried her disguise to the extent of staining her face [...] .’ But then, dear Granny, you shouldn’t rave about your friends.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Apr. 1/4: Says the S. M. Herald re the Soudanese patriots:– ‘Experience is showing that if the clansmen are crushed at all, it will have to be by British soldiers, and that even they cannot afford to take liberties.’ But of course that’s not what Granny meant. For weeks her entire energies have been concentrated upon persuading people that it is quite right that British soldiers should take liberties from the Soudanese.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 9 Dec. 4/6: The ‘S.M. Herald’ accounts for the unemployed difficulty partly ‘by the low prices got by produce’ [...] Granny still clings to the antediluvian ideas of always buying in the cheapest market.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Jun. 10/1: For many decades it has been the custom of S.M. Herald to report Governors’ speeches word-for-word, in the first person. [...] Once Granny would have regarded it as high treason and ten broken commandments to put a Governor in the humiliating, inconsequential, damp, musty, and degrading third person.
1914		H. Lawson ‘Mitchell on the “Situation”’ in Roderick (1972) 716: ‘Now,’ said Mitchell, taking up the Granny absently and folding down the Cable Column.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 233/2: granny – the Sydney Morning Herald.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxv 6/1: granny: The Sydney Morning Herald.