IN MEMORIAM

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 6

IN MEMORIAM

Of H. A. Watt, late of Auckland aud Christcluu'ch, who died on the passage home to Scotland. Hark, o'er the ocean pealing The sad news is quickly spread That a good, kind-hearted Scotchman Has bowed his honoured head. Vile death, his footsteps dogging, Pursued him where billows foam, And snapped the cord that bound him To dear friends, and his native home. Leal \\ as he to auld Scotland, Hoi* glens and heathery braes : Her heroes who fought for freedom, Her poets, her deathless lays ; Her music, her tartan, her thistles, Her sons, and her daughters fair; "Kea, all that was truly Scottish He cherished with special care. Vet though he loved his own land As Scotchmen can only do, Still his friends of the Rose and Shamrock Were many, aud not a few. His deatli knell will cast a deep gloom O'er those who have grasped his hand, Here in lovely, bright Zealandia, Or in Scotia, his native land. W. J. Fergusox.

An American paragrapirisD in 1850 jocu iarly wrote :— " Society is considerably agitated over the question of whether or not the groom at a wedding should wear his trousers inside or outside his boots." The following was recently handed in as a bona fide composition of a Whangarei schoolboy :-— " The human body is made up of the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The head contains the brains when there ia any. '1 he thorax contains, the heart lungs and the diafram. The abdomen contains the bowels of which there are five, A. E. 1. 0. U. and sometimes W and Y." A young man named Kay achieved such a pitch of enthusiasm in an elocution contest at Ballarat one night that he fell in a n't and died. It is reported that Russia intends to raise the import duty on sugar 60s per hundred kilos, and on raw 40s. " Oh. stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon my breast." 4 Aha, my girl, you can't," said he, "Work off a leap year ga£ on me," Eighty-seven thousand Chinese in Singaporo mostly ready to start for Australia as British subjects. " Allee same Inglis man." It is not necessary to "go to Howick " for advanced ritualism. On Easter day the Queen presented a silver gilt cross to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, in commemoration of her Jubilee.