"Mr. G. Paton Smith wished to ask the honourable member for Geelong West whether the six members sitting beside him (Mr. Berry) constituted the `stone wall' that had been spoken of? Did they constitute the stone wall which was to oppose all progress—to prevent the finances being dealt with and the business of the country carried on? It was like bully Bottom's stone wall. It certainly could not be a very high wall, nor a very long wall, if it only consisted of six."
1884. G. W. Rusden, `History of Australia,' vol. iii. p. 405:
"Abusing the heroic words of Stonewall Jackson, the Opposition applied to themselves the epithet made famous by the gallant Confederate General."
1894. `The Argus,' Jan. 26, p. 3, col. 5:
"The Tasmanians [sc. cricketers] do not as a rule stonewall."
<hw>Stonewood</hw>, <i>n</i>. <i>Callistemon salignus</i>, De C., <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>; called also the <i>River Tea-tree</i>.
1894. `Melbourne Museum Catalogue—Economic Woods,' No. 48:
"Stonewood."
<hw>Store</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bullock, cow, or sheep bought to be fattened for the market.
1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion of Australia,' c. xiii. p. 233: