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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 157, 9 February 1871, Page 7

For the information of intending emigrants in England, Ireland, and Scotland, more especially that part of it called Aberdeen. " Home papers please copy." Otago is a ponderous place, Such fiddling and such fun ; Champagne is drunk in bucketfuls, And porter by the tun. It really is a glorious place, "Tis> quite a raree show ; John Barleycorn he is the king, And fun is all the go. Our working men keep carnages, To please their lady loves ; Our ploughmen never go to work 'Till they put on kid gloves. They snioke ciga:^ and sip their wine The best nai { of thoir time ; And ladies, when thiee score aud ten, Arc only in their piime. Red rosey wine from luscious grapes, Grown in the open air. Is sold as cheap as treacle ale, Or small beer at a fair. There's not a creek but flows with milk, The honey is knee deep ; They gravel walks with cherry stones, The cheiries are so cheap. The sun ne'er sets in summer time, The tre33 arc- etfer green — As thick as haws upon a hedge, The pomegranates are seen. Pine npple tiees are split for posts, Beet roots are split for rails, Gooseberry bushes furnish wood lor barrows, teams, aud flails. Both coined and uncoined gold is found AYhere ere you choose to dig ; ThciVs not a rogue in all the place, For no man needs to piig. Although you should not work at all You never can be poor ; Just turn your hand to politics, Your foitune then is sure. .Fqt- lawyeis we have only one, cannot make his salt, |^PPffe lives a sort of honest life, But that is not his fault. There's neither jails nor gibbets here, There's neither rats nor mice, So come in thousands if j r ou can, And never think on't twice. P.S.- Cocoa nuts are sown broal cast, They ripen in a day, "We feed our horse 3 with the husks, ! Tis better far than hay. The salmon are so plentiful, There really is no sale, Some are so large that one would think Them \eiy like a whale. Craigielea, Jan. 18, 1871.