1889 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 11 July 1/6: ‘Let us go to the brewery, my friends.’ ‘All right,’ chimed in an old soaker [...] ‘I’m with you’.at soaker, n.1
1890 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 11 July 1/6: Slang, my dear? Is ‘where did you get that hat?’ slang?at where did you get that hat? under hat, n.
1896 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 22 June 2/5: [healine] A Celestial Disturbance. There are two factions amongst the Chinamen of Parawai [...] The hill tribe, we understand, are jealous of the Celestials of the plains.at celestial, adj.2
1897 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 23 Aug. 2/4: He was stopped by a rough looking stranger, who, after informing him that he was ‘flyblown’ [...[ preferred a request for the gift of half-a-crown.at fly-blown, adj.
1897 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 23 Aug. 2/4: We glean that ‘sticking up’ is not an infrequent occurrence [...] Citizens will be acting prudently if they carry, good, stout walking sticks.at stick up, v.1
1898 N.Z. Thames Star 23 July 4/3: They [i.e. bullets] are warranted to make the dervish ‘hombre’ sing dumb-dumb.at hombre, n.
1898 N.Z. Thames Star 23 July 4/3: The general here is a pure Napoleon [...] ‘always on the hop’ .at on the hop under hop, n.4
1898 N.Z. Thames Star 23 July 4/3: The general here is a pure Napoleon [...] he is a regular ‘snitcher’. at snitcher, n.4
1917 Thames Star 13 Oct. 5/1: Cme, get your Sunday-go-to-meeting things on.at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
1918 Thames Star (NZ) 12 Aug. 1/3: No one has ever explained satisfactorily why they are called ‘gobbies’.at gobby, n.1
1920 Thames Star (Waikato, NZ) 6 Jan. 4/4: The defeat at the polls of M. Longuet, leader of the french ‘Reds’, and grandson of Karl Marx.at red, n.