THE LAY OF THE LAST MINISTRY. (COMMUNICATED.)

Evening Post, Issue 222, 24 October 1865, Page 3

THE LAY OF THE LAST MINISTRY. (COMMUNICATED.)

Says Auckland to Otago, "Now I think we've done the trick ; And in selling Nelson lo us, Mister Stafford is a brick: So that Mister Weld is out, why it matters not a pin Whether Stafford by himself, or ' any oder man' is in." Says Crosble Ward to Stafford, "You know you can't have me," Pirouetting like a ballet-girl to Christchurch o'er the sen; But intending to go back again if Moorhouae he can coax To be Attorney-General among the noble blokes. To Separatien Vogel, says Stafford with a sigh- " Go to Gillies, and explain to him in what a fix am I; Tell him he shall have a finger in the fishes and the loaves, If he'll be Attorney General among the noble coves." Says Stafford then to Featherston, '• You*ve got enough from Weld, You appear to me to shirk him justjust as though you had rebelled ; So never mind how angry your constituents may be, Come! unite with me to * let alone the aboriginee.'" Says Auckland to Otago, " We shall get him on the lay First o'er all the other Provinces to let us have the sway, And>afterwards accomplish what we dearly long to do, Scratch New Zealand from the colonies by cutting her in two." When Stafford met the House, to the combination's sorrow, He could only say he hoped for Mister Crosbie Ward to-morrow, And he hoped a Wellingtonian, who was no nonentity, But he'd gob a, brace of Colonels, and an "old identity."