OUR POET LAUREATE.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 808, 24 January 1877, Page 3

OUR POET LAUREATE.

“All the World is a Rink.” —By G. Wilmer, P.L., Christchurch. Opinions of the Press. Mr Willmer has at last succeeded in eclipsing every rhymster of any pretension South of the Line.—“ Australian L. Jackass.” This is agem in its way—a long way ahead of Tennyson, The Darwinian theory is now clearly visible to the naked eye.—“ New Zealand Gazette. ” Very palatable. Suited to all ages and sexes if taken in homceopathio doses. “ Hawaiian Songster. ” We congratulate Mr Wilmer upon his last extraordinary effort. With the back bone drawn out of it, much good must result by a careful application of the chaotic disjecta memb r a of the fine structure he has so well designed. —“Auckland Fuel Economist.” Carefully conceived and concisely digested. A better instance of those wonderful climatic influences for which New Zealand is so justly famed could scarcely be imagined. We disagree with the gifted author, however, on the subject of the cold-water-cure remedies. —“ Stewart’s Island Sentinel.”

Very audacioiwly brought out, yet finely emasculated. The connecting link between the ridiculous and the sublime has been thoughtfully thrown aside by Mr Willmer. Very proper, and a bold and fresh innovation. —“ Ashburton Comet.” Kinkualism, as so chastely versified by Canterbury’s indefatigable songster, must goon become popular. What will the LowChurch people say to it? Wc strongly advise them to meet Mr Willmer half way. .—“Kaiapoi Plough. ” Mr Willmer still continues to illuminate the visionary orbit of his rhyming career ■with undiminished success. To quote one of those political similes of which he is so fond, we may state that he has succeeded — and that too. in a most startling lime-light manner—in setting to eternal rest those humbler constellations w r hich, like hungry satellites, have at times darkened the luminous path he has so long trodden on this sub-lunary firmament, Sun ” We hail with delight the probable accession of our Laureate to tftat world of literature where rays such as ape shed by this distinguished author ape fully appreciated ai Star-like effusions reflected from a higher heavenly distribution of light than can hr possibly found here. We shall be glad to meet Mr Willmer, and shake hands warmly. —“Christchurch Moon.”