G. G.’s RESOLUTIONS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 676, 19 August 1876, Page 3

G. G.’s RESOLUTIONS.

At last the Great Proconsul who is known as Double G, Has put forth his resolutions to the country and the House ; And the epicures in politics, whoever they may be, Have recorded their objection to political lobscouse 1

First —“ We must reconsider how our Constitution acts, And also how we best can fill and squeeze the public purse Which Julius quick assented to, as both undoubted facts, Though he thought that we might easily go further and fare worse. Next—“ We must keep the colony an undivided one, Though I thirdly shall propose to you to cut it into two “ Right for the non-division, George, but now with you I’ve done, For your gammon of three Capitals and Parliaments won’t do.!

We’ve got into debt together, and together we must pay, Not by one-half paying seven shares, the other only two : If they got it, the extremities themselves would rue the day When they cut the bands asunder that got credit for the crew ! So your third and fourth, and fifth and sixth, right overboard must go, And when those four are gone, as for your seventh, ‘ let it rip !’ As for New Zealand’s ‘liberties,’ you’ve bullyragged them so, That we can’t trust you and Mac to steer, each one half of the ship ! ‘Go home, go home,’” Sir Julius cries, “ * this is no place for thee ; Go home, nor trust in Provinces, wherever thou may’st go’: Try to be a County Chairman, or literate J.P., But no more throw thy eloquence, in Parliament away ! Thy eighth—the seat of Government at Wellington remain ? By all means : but why once again that sentiment record ? The repetition can’t avail a single vote to gain, But marks again for Wellington a Centre to be scored !”

Solemn, Fitzhebbert listened to the voices, “ aye ” or “ no ;” And quite seriously declared he thought the nocs had got the day : Though he knew full well that 'when to either lobby they should go, The majority would never vote the Government away !

Now, the business of the country cannot stop for Double G, Nor “ the Iloguy o’ Dundee" be free to scuttle our good ship ; If they still persist, Sir Julius’s alternative must be To prorogue, that, so, unqualified may Abolition rip !J