Original Poetry.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 312, 17 May 1907, Page 2

Original Poetry.

The folloing poem (?), which ia supposed to have been picked up on the deck of tbe s.s. Kia Or\ has been handed to us : The rolling prairie or the deep Un 3 sea, A home in the forest i- the borne for ma, Baek at our section in tbe Kawhia bush There’s a home to be made, if you've got the pash. If around the harbour you wish to Ajl Take a passage with Walter in the Nanmai, But if Oparau you would like to see, Go with Jourdain in the Kararee. If in the town you wish to step, Paint it red, f- r there’s only oue “ oop."« Cold water is a good cure, say they sc, The* efore take a trip in the Harare. Onr skipper Black is, like a clock, Good old fellow Captain Lock ; Boss of the slow sai’ing Kia Ora. She’s a beauty on the Waitara bar I When the sea is rough and you’r far from land, Take some medicine of tbe Kia Ora brand ; 1”will taka you safe to Kawhia’a shore, A place to lire happy for evermore. Aud now I think to finish sins ihyi— Shout Northern Company ev< gy time ; Now we have the handsouse Rothesay here, Let Marokopa and Kawhia combine in a cheer. [Either a severe case of seasickneM or too much “ medicine ” to prevent same, as set forth in verse v.—Ed. S. j