Australasia in
certain pulmonary complaints, has acquired the appellation to
the Colonies of `Queensland Asthma Herb'. Nevertheless, it is
by no means endemic in Australasia, for it is a common tropical
weed."

<hw>Aua</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for a New Zealand fish,
<i>Agonostoma forsteri</i>, Bleek. Another Maori name is
<i>Makawhiti</i>; also called <i>Sea-Mullet</i> and sometimes
<i>Herring</i>; (q.v.). It is abundant also in Tasmanian
estuaries, and is one of the fishes which when dried is called
<i>Picton Herring</i> (q.v.). See also <i>Maray</i> and
<i>Mullet</i>. <i>Agonostoma</i> is a genus of the family
<i>Mugilidae</i> or <i>Grey-Mullets</i>.

<hw>Aurora australis</hw>, <i>n.</i> the Southern equivalent
for <i>Aurora borealis</i>.

1790. J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 214:

"Sept. 5, 1788. About half after six in the evening, we saw an
<i>Aurora Australis</i>, a phenomenon uncommon in the southern
hemisphere."

<hw>Austral</hw>, <i>adj</i>. "Belonging to the South,
Southern. Lat. <i>Australis</i>, from <i>auster</i>,
south-wind." (`O.E.D.') The word is rarely used in Australasia
in its primary sense, but now as equivalent to Australian or
Australasian.

1823. Wentworth's Cambridge poem on `Australasia':

"And grant that yet an Austral Milton's song,
Pactolus-like, flow deep and rich along,
An Austral Shakespeare rise, whose living page
To Nature true may charm in every age;
And that an Austral Pindar daring soar,
Where not the Theban Eagle reach'd before."

1825. Barron Field, `First Fruits of Australian Poetry,' Motto in
Geographical Memoir of New South Wales, p. 485:

"I first adventure. Follow me who list;
And be the second Austral harmonist."
<i>Adapted from Bishop Hall</i>.

1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 184:

"For this, midst Austral wilds I waken
Our British harp, feel whence I come,
Queen of the sea, too long forsaken,
Queen of the soul, my spirit's home."--Alien Song.

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 43:

"Every servant in this Austral Utopia thinks himself a
gentleman."

1868. C. Harpur, `Poems' (ed. 1883), p. 215:

"How oft, in Austral woods, the parting day
Has gone through western golden gates away."

1879. J. B. O'Hara, `Songs of the South,' p. 127:

"What though no weird and legendary lore
Invests our young, our golden Austral shore
With that romance the poet loves too well,
When Inspiration breathes her magi