EXETER HALL AND ITS MAORI PETS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 1, Issue 43, 5 December 1868, Page 6

EXETER HALL AND ITS MAORI PETS.

(From the Melbourne Punch.) We have been catching what Yankees would term "particular Pandemonium" in New Zealand. The gentle natives have "presented us with convulsions" alias "given us fits." The sweet creatures have most obstinately and wickedly refused to "come out and be killed." On the other hand the "darned cusses"have "lain low" and "kept" so "dark" that at this present moment, like the American army after Bull's Eun, we are completely demoralised. By-the-bye, perhaps some of the Exeter Hall white-chokered gentlemen might like to come out and try their hand at the "moral-suasion" line of business. As they have got us into, the mess, it is but right tljey should get us out. "We ■WQ.ul^re^jjmend that none but gentleme#tngoo3s condition be sent on this, iWr -»n, as tho Maories hato a lean -pie,' and the process of being fattened for horae consumption is long and apt to become tedious. With what gusto that reverend body will receive the news of the slaughter their fellow-countrymen have undergone at the hands of the noble savages! With what gusto they will revel in the details, and see fresh cause to take courage. It would, however, be more satisfactory, if they would transport themselves to Wanganui and "gush there," instead of in the Strand; all the ruined settlers are so fond of them; in fact, they divide their affections equally between Exeter Hall and its Maori protegee

Two young ladies, Miss Eyre and Miss- Whyte, have been disowned in the river of the Mitchelstown demesne, County Cork. They wore batlung, and got out of their depth.. Miss Eyre, haying first rescued ncr sister, was lost whue endeavouring to roach Miss Whyte. Tongariro is said to benowinjactiyo oruption.