[1] Early parts were the King of Spain in Maritana, Devilshoof in Wallace's The Bohemian Girl, Sir John Falstaff in Otto Nicolai's Merry Wives and Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust.

[7] Snazelle was brought out to Australia by F. E. Hiscocks aboard the Garonne in August 1889 as a one-man entertainment at the Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne entitled Music, Song and Story, sharing the stage with Henry Hawkins.

Then followed a period of perhaps eighteen months when he was solely occupied with operatic work,[11] broken briefly over Easter 1891 for a series of concerts in Melbourne,[12] after which he took a break in Tasmania.

Among other work he received during this time was a new opera, The Scarlet Feather, adapted from Lecocq's La petite mariée and produced by Williamson and Musgrove at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

The book, a collection of anecdotes picked up in Australia, sold rather poorly, and was lampooned for its lack of originality by E. G. Murphy ("Dryblower"): Why chafe against the exile's chain, though fast our lives it's cooping ?

For here, across the mighty main, old friends to-day are trooping; Some old and bent — some deadly dull — some sharp as banderilla — Some drawn from out a misty age, but all must help to fill a page In thee — Snazelleparilla.

Oft have we met them by the fire, beneath the scented gum, Where seasoned swagmen fear inspire within the guileless chum; O'er tropic seas that curl and dance from York to far Manilla Full many a yarn has ceased to roam to find at last a peaceful home In thee — Snazelleparilla.

From Kosciusko, cold and grey, to Hell's twin-brother, Bourke, We've met the yarns that here to-day within your pages lurk; Where high the willy-willy rears its dread cyclonic pillar, We march again with dogged tramp to reach each yarn-infested camp In thee — Snazelleparilla.

So welcome, ancient comrades all, strike root secure and deep, Obedient to the Master's call, the Rubicon you leap; From bush and plain you come to cheer baronial hall and villa, Through summer's sun and winters gloom perennial shall the chestnut bloom To thee — Snazelleparilla.