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Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 11 May 2/6: That publican says [...] that he will be somethinged before he will ever again employ a drunkard to work off a grog score, or a dead horse, as the operation is popularly known in this district. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 13 Sept. 3/1: I wonder whether he means spud digger or muck-shoveller, for, by his caricature of the field, he knows little about mining. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 17 Jan. 2/4: As our readers will see, the bad example of the Trichy address has told upon us, for we are horrified to find we have penned a sentence forty-eight lines long. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 18 Aug. 3/1: The blind man who reads the bible aloud in George-street, Sydney [...] had neglected the good advice of his book, and gone off on the ‘booze’; book, bench and blind boozican were hauled out of the gutter by two bobbies. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 27 Nov. 3/2: When a prisoner is charged with ‘langwidge’ do not fail to read it slowly out loud. It will prove a suitable dictation lesson to the inspiring larrikins. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 24 Sept. 3/5: Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 20 Aug. 2/4: The pious Bible-pounder slid out of
the office. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 24 Nov. 2/1: And cries of ‘strike me handsome’ and ‘Lord blue me’ filled the air. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 24 Nov. 2/1: And cries of ‘strike me handsome’ and ‘Lord blue me’ filled the air. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 19 Jan. 11/4: The listening ‘bobby’ drops a tear, / And refuses those big, big D’s to hear, / Lest he for ‘langwidge’ should run ’em in. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 20 Dec. 3/7: Thomas Robinson, a very little boy, 10 years of age, was charged with stealing lollies, the property of Mr. John Tiplady, of Wallsend. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 4 June 9/6: King Christian of Denmark [...] goes about the streets of Copenhagen in a plug hat and isn’t even saluted by the people he meets. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 26 Feb. 4/4: [A] crowd of people whose gin-blossomed countenances showed that they habitually took as little water as possible with their favourite beverage. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 26 Nov. 5/5: [T]he sight of the Post master-General (once the leader of the Labour party) in a silk top-hat was such a sight for the gods that the latter made several reflecting remarks upon Mr. Cook’s now headgear, which he wore for the first time publicly [...] until someone remarked, ‘You’re a nice kind of Labour member in a nail can!’ . Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 25 Feb. 1/2: Challenge / I, ALF. (‘Skungy’) CUNNINGHAM, will box Walter Trelevan for £15. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 27 Aug. 4/4: RETURNED EMPTIES. A somewhat pathetic interest attaches to the home-coming of the Spanish garrisons from Cuba. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 16 Apr. 5/1: ‘Was it a Trichy (Trichinopoli cigar, three a penny) or a Pondicherry (two a penny) you took then, sir?’. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 4 Mar. 7/3: Ike and myself were present at the first test match played in Melbourne many years ago, and he was in the responsible position of umpire, while I had a sparrow’s ticket, as the Melbourne fence was not very high in those old days. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 3 June 4/2: The cars were varied in character, some were double-deckers - profitable but inconvenient for a fast service; others were of the toast-rack type. Newcastle Herald (WA) 8 May 5/1: Flaherty, in the words of one of the local ladies, is a ‘Bonz.’ If he knew someone thought that of him he would probably consider Newcastle a fine place to spend a holiday at some future date. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 17 Feb. 3/6: As long as you are a beer-guzzler it’s all right, but don't ask for any other drink, or you are voted aristocratlc. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 14 Oct. 6/3: Those of our friends who have been on the ‘tiger’ for about three weeks or more are especially requested to come in and exhale spirituous odours for the benefit of those of our staff who have not lately been paid. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 17 June 2/3: ‘Never could stand actors,’ said the Admiral, ‘going blue-chinning about the country’. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 10 Apr. 3/6: There are plenty who can remember the sulphur-headed match [...] They were necessarily put up in large boxes and got the name of posts and rails. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 5 Apr. 3/8: The ‘sword swallower’ who negotiates his meal with his knife and the offender who ‘floats’ his spoon in his cup, seem below the contemptuous notice of the critics. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 28 Apr. 10/6: The present ‘Bull’ system [...] produces graft and corruption to say nothing of dissension between members of the federation. (con. WWI) Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 30 Mar. 17/4: What did you imagine the life of a soldier in France to be like? There are no feather beds here, and the tucker is generally as rough as a pig’s breakfast. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 14 Dec. 16/5: [headline] NEW BOOKS / ‘THE RED CENTRE’ / Life in Central Australia. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 6 Nov. 4/3: Union officials claim that under the ‘bull’ system preference Is almost always given to strongly-built wharf labourers. Mr. Healy said that the ‘bull’ system was a relic of the Jungle laws which operated on the waterfront In the early days. Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 30 Apr. 1/6: Mr. Sheahan [...] claimed he was responsible for instituting proposals for the conversion of the ‘toast-rack’ trams.