ONLY REPORTERS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 231, 4 October 1878, Page 3

ONLY REPORTERS.

(Suggested by the Christchurch Railway Banquet). (By "Frank Fudge,"—in the Saturday Advertiser.) Only Reporters! is that what you tell us ? Only Reporters!—they're nothing at all ; Only Reporters I—mere newspaper fellows, Send them upstairs, there's no room in the Hall! Newspaper scribes cannot join in our revels, They are too low for our grand civic mess; Send them upstairs, they are poor printers' devils, Tell them we have not got room for the Press. Welcome the plutocrats, bowto theirriches ; Welcome the squatocrats. bow to their land ; Some of them may have their brains in their breeches, What matters that?—they have tin at command. All who have brass m their pockets or faces, All who keep Parliament gas in recess, Here shall be welcome to-night, and have places ; Really we cannot find'room for the Press. Vogel, 'tis true, whom fhiß evening we honour, Scribbled his leader, and local, an_| Praised up our country—he dotes -till upon her— Boldest of statesmen—political star ! Though an extravagant newspaper truant, Still we are debtors to him, we confess ; He is our advocate, facile and fluent, Yet we refuse to make room for the Press. Only Reporters 1 —mere fellows on papers *, Certainly we must admission refuse ; What though they've come to report all our capers, Turning our twaddle to readable news ? True, we run after them for information, True, too, whenever we've wrongs to redress Then unto them we must make application, Yet we refuse to make room for the Press.