"The lads had with them a couple of pistols, powder, shot, bullets, and a shanghai."
1875. Ibid. July 17, p. 123, col. 3:
"The shanghai, which, as a secret instrument of mischief, is only less dangerous than the air-gun."
1884. `Police Offences Act, New Zealand,' sec. 4, subsec. 23:
"Rolls any cask, beats any carpet, flies any kite, uses any bows and arrows, or catapult, or shanghai, or plays at any game to the annoyance of any person in any public place."
1893. `The Age,' Sept. 15, p. 6, col. 7:
"The magistrate who presided on the Carlton bench yesterday, has a decided objection to the use of shanghais, and in dealing with three little boys, the eldest of whom was but eleven or twelve years of age, charged with the use of these weapons in the Prince's Park, denounced their conduct in very strong terms. He said that he looked upon this crime as one of the worst that a lad could be guilty of, and if he had his own way in the matter he would order each of them to be lashed."
1895. C. French, Letter to `Argus,' Nov. 29:
"Wood swallows are somewhat sluggish and slow in their flight, and thus fall an easy prey to either the gun or the murderous and detestable `shanghai.'"
<hw> Shanghai-shot</hw>, <i>n</i>. a short distance, a stone's-throw.