Kowhai Blossoms.

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1904, Page 16

Kowhai Blossoms.

— "Taihape Post."

Down by the creek where the kowhai is blooming, love, Heie in its shade I am waiting for thee, Above me the tui his bright wing is pluming, love, Showering sweet golden blossoms on me. Darling Irene, blue-eyed Irene, Your lover is lonely, my Maoriland queen. Away to the westward in calm meditation, love, Sol's rim is kissing fair Egmont's white brow, Suffusing his face with a flush of carnation, love, Reenie, oh! where art thou lingering now? Laughing Irene, sparkling Irene, Pearl of the blue lake, my Maoriland queen. But night in her sables will soon be enfolding me, Here at the tryst by the old kowhai tree, And that impudent tui is mocking and scolding me, Pelting all sorts of bird nonsense at me. Darling Irene, where have you been P Child of the Bushlands, my Maoriland qne«(n.

Wellington races are to be held on October 20th and. 22nd, and the New Zealand Railway Department wall run excursion tiains as usual. Full particulars of time-table are set out elsewhere in this issue. Stated that Florence Maybrick waS the first who ever sang "The Holy City," thf» music of which was composed! by a younger brother of the husband' whom sh^ was sentenced for poisoning. "Stephen Adams" is the composer's pen. name, but his leal name is Michael Maybrick.