masherdom

— Life is still primitive enough on the "backblocks" to dispense with anything approaching "masherdom." White linen suits and freshly-starched collars may be seen on the Palmerston esplanade, but at the diggings and on the cattle stations, the ordinary bushman toilette is the one most in vogue - a flannel shirt or blouse, broad leather belt, knee-breeches and boots, with a brigand-like sombrero of smaller dimensions than those affected by our latest celebrity, "Buffalo Bill," and his companion cow-boys at the Wild West Show.