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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 67, 21 February 1885, Page 4

Khai-todm, ISSS. O mother" England; veil thy face | and weep For;him, thy noblest and thy latest * : \ son, Done tbhis death', where old Nilo's I blending sweep Shall sing^his requiem, as the long years rnn, O moftfer 1 England, woe is ihirie arid shame, : ; * The dark clouds gloom, around thy star of fame. ■ ! . ' ■•• O mother England : iteft albhe tp ;die . -'■•'■■' : ' ' ■■'■ ■>'■' Amid swart faces that he strove to save •••■■ : While England held aloof, with cautious eye, Measuring his peril - . 1 !;, '■. ; M ight of England roll Across the desert. Late? ; !i Ahyes,too late ! ' • He cried for aid— ye left hirii to his fate. - ! 0 mother England ,p.our jprtH now 1 .::: thy gold, .V_ ■And mass thine armies pn.theburn- ; li irig plains. ..Offer good JiveS jfor , his- a thousand* f01d;. ..;«..:; -.:,; It saves him. not ; one hour of dying pains, Nor one sad outlook, that-he, looked for aid * ! • ■ : While England^ taxied, counting cost, afraid. Ah, did he h6pe? England will save ie^n yetj ' : ' ; ' '"' • ■ .'''■"■'■ Or did he.-gird<ihis great soul,, for the ; end, 1 "vV-ai ting the ; dawn-, arid willing i 6 ■ ■'■•' jfbrget - ! ■'"■■'•■ ' .;- : ' :v/W All but thpse poor swart 'wretches, saviour,' friend; ' • : To those, who ' 'moaned m chains till .*T Gordon came., „-" . ' "One! ihan alone upholding England's name. { \ " O sweep- thine/ armies forth breasting old-Nile, .-.i •,.?;■'• And dye ■■ it red with blood 1 of slayjj_] • er's slain; ; • '"-"' '>'■'■■ '■'' " : ' Raise to his memory high fame's fu- ; neral>pile, . : „..»;•■ . . : ! n,_ . i For 'thine) the • ' bitter .loss, and his 'the gain. w?: ;. . : ;! O mother England, bow thine head ; ...,;. and weep, ! • : - Shrined m thine inmost heart his membrv keep I.'1 .' ! , ' "' .' ' tWo Busy Cities, ; An English correspondent m a .communicatibfii to a Melbourne contem pbrar.y thus contrasts London ; and . Birmingham irr-f* The. secret pf England's, ,greaitne,ss.is, I take it, m her I untiring. 1 industry. ..... Her sons always trurning shillings into pounds^ andare- never ( satisHed with any . product whatever unless they ; ihave given it abditional value by the expenditure ipf . labor. '<■-. Biit/ the' .s.trahgerydoes not see these processes m action when He arrives m iJbridbni and, even after much-, research "irT'that mighty city, heis puzzled to discover what its inhabitants live up"\pn. | The proportion of , shpp T keep^ to r the population is so large m London. that it is impossible. tp con r jecture iWjheiie; they lall find , custo-, mers, and. the^ manufactories, are so enormously! toutntimbered ;-by . tfie great mercantile houses; that it seems as though nearly everything sold m England must frdrii Everybody appears to , be; , trading, and no one seems ; to make an yithing trade with,. and the i consequence is that' the observer feels as though the vast machinery .moved with an *a|tifical impulse, which must some -day stop arid ruin ! it. But he gets 1 behind the scenes when he visits 'the great-manufacturing cities, -and liegins instead to, wondbr jy^er.q .,. 0p... 'earth aff *tlfe products of tfiefr ini^us- i; try can; be stowed away. ..Here m. .Birmingham they make everything that the world requires, excepting* ships, which ate nok conveniently , built remote from the sea; and what .. they .do~with it-all^and..wherfiJLt_ all . goes to, no human being could tell, "uiiless he ■#S&*km&lrea? witS s !n^)fe statistical power, ;than ; Mr : Hayter himself. But though the list of 4 Birmingham manufactures .inclujdes, very nearly .the. whole catalogue of human industries, , yet it is' specially distinguished by its metal work, and m this .de.nartment its,la]bpr ; actually t covers 1 1 the whole jfiel'^ taking m everything between ' spangles and steam engines, bestowing the. y nip.s.t delicate finish orithe minutest watch ' iwork m one corner, and ..ir*.. another .welding with mighy blows the ponderbus, armour, plates for ; the sides* <ot a sl|ip. ot w t ar. T^e^air is, literally chargea with industry, and a lazy. man is an anomaly. Eyerybody hals.somethiuffjto dp, ,Wd assumes, as a matter of course^ that'everyb'oqy else is m the same predicamehl;. The result of tKi^ : wbriderful ! aciiyity naturally Is' the growth and mi'- ' proyement of the city, which. Has. .'gone ahead W9nderjfully ! iri; the 1 jjist few; years.*' '"' ..' i -' \. / ' \ '.' . A. lliut to Travellers. . "While standing m the office of one of our first-class hotels the other day, relates an American editor, . ; We noticed a gentleman come m with hjs baggage, enler-his name m the bookj. and secure a room; As !s<son as he, bad written his name, the clerk looked at it with astonishment. He called all the other clerks to look, and then he called ione of the proprietors, who on seeing it began to ponder. We thought from the fuss , that was being made over the name, that thej man n)ust be some* celebrat-* ed person. XFlle idea struck tis that* it might be an English nobleman : fcut, as. his features were truly American, we concluded it must be t some great man whom we did not ,-know belonging to.'our own country.