1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 40:
"Generally these winds end in what is commonly called a `southerly buster.' This is preceded by a lull in the hot wind; then suddenly (as it has been put) it is as though a bladder of cool air were exploded, and the strong cool southerly air drives up with tremendous force. However pleasant the change of temperature may be it is no mere pastime to be caught in a `southerly buster,' but the drifting rain which always follows soon sets matters right, allays the dust, and then follows the calm fresh bracing wind which is the more delightful by contrast with the misery through which one has passed for three long dreary days and nights."
1893. `The Australasian,' Aug. 12, p. 302, col. 1:
"You should see him with Commodore Jack out in the teeth of the `hard glad weather,' when a southerly buster sweeps up the harbour."
1896. H. A.Hunt, in `Three Essays on Australian Weather' (Sydney), p. 16:
An Essay on Southerly Bursters, . . . with Four Photographs and Five Diagrams."
[Title of an essay which was awarded the prize of L 25 offered by the Hon. Ralph Abercrombie.]
<hw>Butcher</hw>, <i>n</i>. South Australian slang for a long drink of beer, so-called (it is said) because the men of a certain butchery in Adelaide used this refreshment regularly; cf. "porter" in England, after the drink of the old London porters.
<hw>Butcher-bird</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is in use elsewhere, but in Australia it is applied to the genus <i>Cracticus</i>. The varieties are—
The Butcher-bird—
<i>Cracticus torquatus</i>, Lath.; formerly
<i>C. destructor</i>, Gould.