1910 Bunbury Herald (WA) 5 Nov. 4/3: The merits of the programme submitted was summed up by the genial Canon in a very few words. It was, he said, at least ‘bonsa,’ if not ‘bontosta,’ possibly ‘bontosterino’.at bontoshter, adj.
1910 Bunbury Herald (WA) 5 Noov. 4/3: The merits of the programme submitted was summed up by the genial Canon in a very few words. It was, he said, at least ‘bonsa,’ if not ‘bontosta,’ possibly ‘bontosterino’.at bonzer, adj.
1910 Bunbury Herald (Bunbury, WA) 9 Apr. 3/6: He used to sing out, ‘Sampler snatched the Stakes;’ ‘Muddler Mucked the Mile;’ ‘Uckleberry ’umped it ’ome in the ’Urdles,’ and generally wind up by saying, ‘Real rotten; didn’t draw a drube’.at droob, n.1
1910 Bunbury Herald (WA) 3 May 2/7: On Wednesday last, while engaged in his usual avocation of swamping for a whim driver, at Argyle, a young man named Frederick Maxwell met with his death.at swamp, v.2
1913 Bunbury Herald (WA) 3 June 8/2: To advocate the reading of bad books [...] is like saying it is better to sleep in a stuffy room full of disease germs, and risk illness, than to have a roof at all when the whole range of the ‘Star Hotel’ with its health giving atmosphere is available .at star hotel (n.) under star, n.1
1924 Bunbury Herald (Aus.) 25 July 7/6: A burl along the roadway indicated its capability of attaining 25 miles per hour on a level stretch.at go for a burl (v.) under burl, n.