TOPICAL RHYMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 954, 29 July 1903, Page 3

TOPICAL RHYMES.

TO SUIT THE TIMES. Mr Editor,—l beg to send you a few good thoughts done into very bad verse * OUR MAYOR. Mr Townley’s a useful man Doing all the good he can But please tell me why, Sir ? Ho let’s Whinray and Lysnar . Continually use the word—dam. THE WATER SUPPLY. It’s coming from the Heavens It’s falling from the sky But Heavens 1 Don't it strike you That water tulk is dry ? FARMERS’ CLUB. Little birds in their Dest agree, But ’tia a woeful sight, To see Farmers of one Union Sit down and fetters write, To tell their brother farmers That in these latter days A splendid crop of fibbers Is what they mostly raise. REFORM LEAGUE. , It started to remedy errors, It might have beon put on the shelf, But now it's got plenty to do ' Undertaking reform of itself. RAILWAY LEAGUE. Railways fight and tramways airy: . Tease to day their busy brains ? Next the league will start the query Motor cars or Motu trains ?

THE CHIMES. Wifi the Mayor be startled from his slumbers As ho hears their sweet refrain ? And say, “ can’t you keep those children quiet, Their noise has waked me up again.” THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The best exhibition it makes, Is the patience its members display, In rescinding to-morrow the motion It voted upon but to day 1 THE. TUI.