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Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 27 Feb. 4/1: The Army Captain and Lieutenant got a week each in ‘the logs’.at logs, the, n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 27 Feb. 4/1: The Army Captain and Lieutenant got a week each in ‘the logs’. Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 2 Jan. 2/4: O.K. was fortunate enough to witness a willing battle between Jack Burke and Pill Hudson [...] Both men are pretty well known In the North as grass fighters, and a game go was expected.at grass-fighter (n.) under grass, n.1
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 23 Sept. 3/3: You were not apathetic, / With all your other crimes. / For, strike me paralytic / You voted twenty times!at strike me paralytic! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 6 Oct. 3/1: If the squatters, therefore, desire to retain enough shearers to undress their sheep, they will either have to go back to the old style of superintending their own shearing.at undress, v.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 28 July 1/2: [advert] EVERYBODY go there • Where? to HENDERSON'S—for a glass of M.B. Ale.at m.b., n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 13 Dec. 11/6: The police this morning made a surprise visit to the wharf laborers’ picking up shed, where the game of ‘trey bit peter’.at Treybit Peter (n.) under trey-bit, n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 6 Jan. 7/3: A meal which consisted [...] of porridge, flybog and tea.at flybog (n.) under fly, n.3
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 17 Aug. 3/3: ‘But, starve the lizards, Bill, the truth is I’m frightened of the track; and my nerve is broken’ .at starve the lizards! (excl.) under starve the...!, excl.
Northern Miner Charters Town, Qld) 5 May 2/1: A local ‘wag,’ or to use the vernacular, an ‘alec’ saw a gentleman walking alone.at alec, n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 1 Apr. 3/3: The ‘Bagman’s Gazette,’ a journal that could be relied upon for the latest and most trustworthy In formation.at bagman’s gazette, the (n.) under bagman, n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 23 July 6/3: Doin’ their blocks, [the bullockys] reefed it off their chests in earnest. The leaves withered, the bark crumbled and fell from the trees, an' the paint peeled off me new pipe.at reef it off (in lumps) (v.) under reef, v.1
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 16 Nov. 4/4: The officials of various organisations who appeal direct to the public tell with monotonous persistence the story of the preponderance of ‘treys’ in their ‘hauls’ since the depression stalks the land.at tray, n.1
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 22 Feb. 4/3: Suddenly Paddy’s sparring partner picked up a bottle, and [...] yelled at the Irishman, ‘I’m a bottle king you Irish cow, so keep quiet’ Paddy quickly grabbed his razor from a box. ‘Yeah,’ he exclaimed. ‘If you're a bottle king I’m a Bengal Lancer’.at bengal lancers, n.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 22 Feb. 4/3: Suddenly Paddy’s sparring partner picked up a bottle, and [...] yelled at the Irishman, ‘I’m a bottle king you Irish cow, so keep quiet’ Paddy quickly grabbed his razor from a box. ‘Yeah,’ he exclaimed. ‘If you're a bottle king I’m a Bengal Lancer’.at bottle king (n.) under bottle, n.1
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 3 Feb. 4/3: I’ll wager a long sleever to a pair of ‘Prince Alberts’ that Flossie wouldn’t be wearing costly dresses.at long-sleever (n.) under long, adj.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) 3 Feb. 4/3: I’m hanged if I know what young ladies like Flossie would do if we were all on the ‘water wagon’.at on the water wagon under water wagon, n.
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