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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 113, 17 March 1891, Page 4

The Brace's Banquet 1 , — •*■ '-* T -led Vii Cream that wis underthe thrall Ot' a 'ii.jji«.'iijtire, and "landed in Marton Town Hall. By* the spread on long table, and. lighting so spruce, .- . I.kpetv 'twas the night for to banquet the ■ Bruce. The guests. had not come,- and the waiters not ia — There laughed at the table two boys full ::• , of sin; And over the board, hung between chand- - eliers _ i ■"■Huge spider, to yarn thafc would baffle c sheep shears ; And v/hen the .-huge sprawler did dare to "r climb higher, i * He was stopped by the boys— George and '.IV Felix. MacGuire.But what struck me as strange, with such ,'r" table, and glare, ■The walls of the room were ungarnished, and bare Of adornments — of greenery — nikau, or ' fern ;"' New ;Zealand could spare none; for such :-.-• a concern I The firsfc who came in was an Advocate, , ' bald; His head Spinning Jenny severely had mauled ; His.. brain, being so cracked* of Parnell and' his crimes', He jabbered and prayed for the truth- \ telling Times, And muttered high HeaVen could not far lead astray, Till a -woman, he hired, and she showed ' him the way; And calling great Gladstone the prince of humbugs, He went fumbling amongst the decanters and jugs. . Next came Honest John, leading horse, , '• .by a cord, , ; ; Parihak 1. _ Parihaka ! Their only record. The long-headed fellows, the white, and the black, -Are honest -afc tables — " wi naething to tak." The Fedding inhabitant inward did file* -And wearing, as usual, zeraphic smile ; -His pet lamb, "Insurance Fund." trots at his side, And he says to the lambkin — the riyers you'll stride; -But taking the chan*, to the sheep with a leer, . Cj . ..-, • Says : "I, pnce knew the time when you darednofc come near." -Hosts next from the Soufch-^-assemblies of, just, ... Who whispered and smiled, as the Bible they ki'ssedj __ ..Declaring to God : "W£ the Catholic _.. , fools , •Will en christian by thefts, and infidel fcchools " ; ; And thoy sit in their chairs like a row of ■■■•••- divines, -LAnd wink at the whiskey and ogle at wines. {At last came the Bruce, impeded by check Gf millstone, Protection., that hung round his neck ; pole o'er his shoulder, with ropes tf] nine or .ten, .-To strangie all toilers who feel themL -selves men; ." Bringing Gdbden and Bright, with Huxley, the- sa,ge, LThey two carrying stockwhips, and Hux. was his page. ' The assembly arising, shout " The Hunterville Flower," -And the Bruce 'he begins with " The Ballance of power." But unkind to explosions and gases unclean, . I broke from the nightmare and fled with the dream To worlds that are pure, through theu* people's salute ; .. And though blossomed their lands, and y. burdened with fruit 'As exigencies rise, -or -intelligence grows, ' They root up old glory, to plant a ne : ,v rose. -Aiid I saw the tall tower, erected on earth '. To tea-.-;.! us thafc virtue must aye be new L.rbh ; A And its radiance fchat dazzled so far . through the night, . -Drew the waking .and seeking to walk iv its light. LE'en infidels, wandering o'er brachen .-' and show Went ba ck firsfc, and worshipped unknowing its glow. . But alas ! the Martoniaus, and whose is the fault? "Worship Harry, the Bruce, and the " Pillar of Salt," -■ Liberal. , Home Wheat Market oi; The severity of the weather at Home, and ,the prospects of bad crops /.later on in the year, will nofc altogether be a baldL thing for the colonies. 'Our cablegrams to-day show fchafc the -Quantity of wheat afloat for the -'Continent' is higher than ever before "recorded in our messages, and at the -same time the quotation given for the '-South Australian wheat of the late harvest is higher than it has been : -Bince 1883. Ifc is only on one or two -occasions during the last seven years fchat South Australian wheat haa stood at over 40s, and to-day we have the -cereal quoted at 435. The difference -vill mean an enormous gain to Victoria and South Australia, for the two colonies named have 50,000 tons -lor export this year. Yesterday the highest quotation for wheat iv Adelaide or Melbourne was 3s 9d, while the London figure given to-day is -equal at least 9d more per bushel. 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Trust in iliis approved •article, and reiec*- all others. — Advt. Messrs; Eos -i and Sandiord, of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, respectfully intimate the approaching close of their • present Great Oltiariri}? Sale of Jobborna and Co.'s Bankruptcy Stock together with their own Surplus Stock of Summer Ooods, all of which aro no<v h:>ing disposed of afc prices that cann->t fail to meet with the he hearty approval of Cash " Purchasers. —Advt. -'TOB EBINTING m all its branches 3 - : '.l?Jk; .■■•executed on the shortest notice ( at tlie Sta? Oiiice Charges' very t i