Part 245 (1/2)

1880 A Sutherland, `Tales of Goldfields,' p 76:

”The battery was to have eight stampers”

1890 `Goldfields of Victoria,' p 11:

”This, with the old battery, brings the number of stampers up to sixty”

Ibid p 15:

”A battery of twenty-six stamp heads”

<hw>Star of Bethlehealuiven in Australia to Chamaescilla corymbosa, and in Tasmania to Burchardia umbellata, R Br, both of the Liliaceae

<hw>Star-fern</hw>, n naiven in Victoria to Gleichenia flabellata, R Br; called also Fan-fern See Fern

<hw>Starling</hw>, n English bird-na Starling, Calornisis also accli Australian has a fine contein, which he never uses where he can find any substitute He says commence or start, and he always uses commence followed by the infinitive instead of by the verbal noun, as ”The dog commenced to bark”

1896 Modern talk in the train:

”The horse started to stop, and the backers coinally the house with the necessary buildings and home-premises of a sheep-run, and still used in that sense: but now oes with it Stations are distinguished as Sheep-stations and Cattle-stations

1833 C Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol i (Introd):

”Theywill only be occupied as distant stock-stations”

1861 T McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p 120:

”Their [squatters'] huts or houses, gardens, paddocks, etc, fore of country over which their flocks and herds roam is termed a run”

1868 J Bonwick, `John Batman, Founder of Victoria,' p 35:

”The lecturer assured his audience that he ca station”

1870 A L Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p 17:

”The sturdy station-children pull the bush flowers on aroo,' p 4:

”Station--the term applied in the colonies to the homesteads of the sheep-farht,' c xviii p 171:

”Men who in their youth had been peaceful stockmen and station-labourers”

1896 A B Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p 125: