NOT COMPLIMENTARY.
The Fiji Times publishes some valedictory verses on the departure of Sir Arthur Gordon for New Zealand. They are by no means complimentary and the first few stanzae give a fair idea of the whole:—
Not a eigh was heard, not a farewell cheer.
As his fix gavo the signal for starting; Not a toady could squeeze out a crocodile toai
While they went through the humbug of parting. No concourse of citizens flocked to the strand ;
No public address was presented ; Not a kerchief was waved by a lily white liaiul, And there wasn't a soul that lamented. They solemnly bore him away from the shorn, And the eyes of the people went after, But the only expression each countenance .wore Was a broad grin approaching to laughter. It was grief no doubt, to a cheerful mien Its sorrowful transports subduing, While the moral young persons from prim Aberdeen, Did the whole of the formal 800-liooing.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 461, 21 December 1880, Page 3
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159NOT COMPLIMENTARY. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 461, 21 December 1880, Page 3
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