mulga wire

In the meantime, I had been receiving worrying reports about Nancy by mulga wire but could not find out for sure what was wrong.

There is a really good sketch of Micky, the lonely boundary rider, whose wonderful stock of news comes by “the mulga wires,” who is full of scandal about the squatter′s rams […] .

“How did he receive word about the sick lubra?”

“I don′t know. Mulga wire, I suppose.”