A RANGITIKEI IDYLL

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 509, 17 April 1880, Page 3

A RANGITIKEI IDYLL

Some verses which can hardly be called poetry have been addressed to a Wellington paper. There wore five stanzas, only three of which we consider fit for publication, and they are these : I 'am the doughty William Fox, To whom Stout Ballance gave such knocks Times since at Wanganui ; He then performed the churlish feat, To let me stand without a seat, A n act which made me ‘ pouri.’ Pity the sorrows of a Knight tha f, s old, Who hates being left out in the cold. I’ve lately tried my best to please The public, and some Maori getne Their feathers had to pluck ; And though L called them with a Bell To hear the tale I had to tell, I had but wretched luck. Pity the sorrows of a Fox that’s old, Wlio fears being left out in the cold. I will not state all 1 may do, Should I be now returned by you To sit in Parliament; But this with confidence I’ll say, ITI help to soundly bully Grey, Pay Ballance what he lent. Pity the sorrows of a Knight that’s old, Who hates being left out in the cold.

At Dunedin, £l5O have been collected for some plate presented to Mr Hnllcnstein, of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, on his leaving tor Europe. He has desired that the money be applied to relieve distress in the town. A South Dunedin publican has been robbed • of £4O, which had been left in the till. A vessel conveying French exhibits to Melbourne will leave in May. Mr Stevens the mate who was injured some time ago on board the Wakatipu, is now improving. At Manchester the woollen warehouse of Hill, Mills, & Coij was burned on the 20th Loss* £50,000. The British Arctic Expedition sails in May next.