ORIGINAL POETRY.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 96, 2 October 1863, Page 2

ORIGINAL POETRY.

The following lines were brought to our office \tj a poeta Tion fit' Ween treat him to "go and sin no more" . — LAY OF A TOBACCO PIPE. Powerful I am (no doubt), I don't deny That in my bowl the oil doth gurgling sigh ; But when I foul become, please give fair play, Aud do not spurn me as you would a " clay."' But, with a little spirit, OH ! do me clean ! And with twig of millet brbom make "all serene." Then by your fireside many hours I'll pass In social union with the toddy glass ! Don't smoke me low, or else my coat you'll burn, Then iv a month a brilliant black I'll turn. My amber stem is clouded as you see, Not from the clouds which from my bowl doth flee. But when my now dark skin was white and fair, The artist deeming clouded amber rare, Fix'd it to my stem with skilful hand, Tho pressure of strong " whiffs" to stand Meeeschacu.

' HARBOR; ;*"- "^ (MOM OW OWX COREESPO^I^tXT.) s ' ' . 7Y„ * Tj»waday,£lst Oct, IBf£ f It is my unpl^saht duty to record moth* > accident to our coasting shipping fist. , Ruby broke her screw propeller, thus fa , abling her for a.few days. > She came , here to convey the immigrants from on bo»jj the Helenslee to .Invercargill. -Capt Thorns the Harbor Master," brought her up to th. Inner Harbor and beached her this (Thou. • day) morning. I expect she will gether n et • fan shipped and ready for use by to-morrov, A number of the immigrants landed thi] morning, and started onioot for Jnvercaigj^ .Eleven of the sailors- left the* ship.Heleiulet oh tne night of the 29th ult, six of whom were captured by Sergeant O'Keefe and Coa. stable Munro by eight o'clock on the f ollo». ing morning, and lodged itt /custody here. The weather still continues very" boisterous, and ao appearance of a change.