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SELECT POETEY. THE PEASANT. -A GERMAN BALLAD. Bttbg- Niedeck is a mountain in Alsace, high and strong, Where once a noble castle stood-^the giants held it long ; . Its very ruins now are lost, its site ia waste and lone, And if you seek for giants there, they all are dead and gone. The giant's daughter onoe came forth the castle gate before, And played with all a child's delight beside her father's door ; Then sauntering down the precipice the girl did gladly go, To Bee, perchance, how matters went in the little world below. With few and easy steps she passed the mountain and the wood, At length near Haslach, at the place where mankind dwelt, she stood ; And many a town and village fair, and many a field so green, Before her wondering eyes appeared — a strange and curious scene. And as she gazed, in wonder lost, on all the scene around, She saw a peasant at her feet, a-tilling of the ground ; The little creature crawled about so slowly here and there, - And lighted by the morning sun, his plough shone bright and fair. 11 Oh, pretty plaything !" cried the child, " I take thee home with me :" Then with her infant hands she spread her 'kerchief on her knee, And cradling horse, and man, and plough, all gently on her arm, She bore them home with cautious steps, afraid to do them harm. She hastes with joyous steps and quick (we know what children are), And spying soon her father out, she shouted from afar : " O father, dearest father, such a plaything I have found, I never saw so fair a one on our own mountain ground." Her father sat at table then, and drank his wine so mild, And smiling with a parent's smile, he asks the happy child : " What struggling creature hast thou brought so carefully to me ? Thou leap'st for very joy, my girl ; come, open, let us see." She opes her 'ke v chief carefully, and gladly you may deem, And shows her eager sire the plough, the peasant and his team ; And when she placed before his sight the new, found pretty toy, She clapped her hands and screamed aloud, and cried for very joy. But her father looked quite seriously, and shaking slow his head, " What hast thou brought me home, my child ? — this is no toy," he said j " Go, take it quickly back again, and put it down below ; The peasant is no plaything, girl — how could'st thou think him so ? "So go, without a sigh or sob, and do my will,' he said, " For know, without the peasant, girl, we none of us had bread ; " Tis from the peasant's hardy stock the race of giants are j The peasant is no plaything, child. No : God forbid he were !" OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. (From Government Gazette, Nov. 6.) Ebbata. — IN Gazette No. 24, 2nd October, 1867, page 131. Eor — Run No. 149, read —EunNo. 159. „ NOTICE. rgiHE Co-partnership sometime sub- | JL sisting between Thomas Dennis- j ton and William Jameson, as Eunholders, Southland, under the style or firm of Denniston and Jameson, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. Thomas Denniston William Jameson Witness : L. Eodgees, Bookseller, Invercargill, 16th Oct., 1867. SUPEEME COUET. NOTICE IS HEEEBT GIVEN that an Adjourned Sitting of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal and Civil Business will be held in the Council Hall, Invercargill, on Tuesday, the sth day of November next, at ten o'clock forenoon And that the said Sitting, immediately upon the opening of the Court, will be adjourned until ten o'clock of the forenoon of Friday, the 15th day of November aforesaid, at the said Council Hall, at which time and place all persons under recognizance to appear as Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses, are hereby required to give their attendance. W. STUAET, Eegistrar. Supreme Court Office, Invercargill, 23id October, 1867. Colonial Defence Office, Wellington, 11th Sept., 1867. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned appointments, viz. : 1 # # # * In the Invercargill Mifle Volunteers. James Harvey to be Captain. Date of commission, 23rd August, 1867. Henry Geisow to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 23rd August, 1867. William Panton Grigor to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon. Date of commission, 23rd August, 1867. T. M. Hatjltain. Superintendent's office, . Southland, 4th Nov, 1867. IT is hereby notified that the Land . specified below has been temporarily reserved under Clause XVI of the " Southland Waste Land Act, 1865." Jno P. Taylob, Superintendent. CEMETERY RESERVE. At Orepuki, in the Longwood District, containing one acre, being a rectangular block of land having 3 cbains frontage to the road reserve along the top of the cliffs above high water mark, and extending back at right angles to include the required acreage. The N. W. corner of the Cemetery reserve to commence about 12 chains from the S. W. corner of the Orepuki Township reserve,