Punch's Welcome to the Maori Football Team.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3075, 8 December 1888, Page 3

Punch's Welcome to the Maori Football Team.

You've corao then, brother Maoris,' At us to Lave a shy, And if we guard our glories, We'll liavo to mind cur eye. Our camp you seom flurry, And stirs.it calm content; You've flabbergasted Surrey, Arid scrumplicatcd Kent., Your kicking, brother Maoris, Has given' us' tbe kick; You're nell matched all, well "on tbe [ball" . ..-.;■ '■■ And strong and straight and Quick, By Jove, this is a rum age, When a New Zealand team Licks Bull at goal and scrummage!/! , It beats Macaulay's dream, -.* . v Wtt welcome, brother Maoris, • Here's wishing you good luck! With you there pace and power is skill, and lot's of P' llo ' l ' [Why just so! Sporting and Ofl tober Bth regarding our new Governor will be read with' interest;—" Three . stags a day, got by fair, hard stalking and straight shooting, is a record of which a • sportsman "may. well be proud. This ■ -was Lord Onslow's score the. other day at Lord Breadalbane's famous forest, Blackmouht. It .'•is evidently his lordship's motto to work when he works and play when lie plays-always, of course, supposing that at may be considered play to waik, run and crawl sometimes ietween twenty and thirty miles a A /, over the rocky ■ 'ascent and' declivities of a Scotch deer .forest, It is, hMever, known that Lord Onslow in EWSpaoity as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, devoted his best oner- - gies during many every day for months to the work of the Conference, that he was chiefly responsible for the preparation and passage .of the Allotments Bill, that ho probably spoke oftener.in the House of Lords . than any other peer during the lute session, that lie was continually writing and speaking on agricultural matters) and that as President of tho Dog's Home and in othor semi-public positions he did a good season's worlds well, It is a good thing that after such a hard time a man should have sufficient energy to go up to Scotland and shoot three stags in a day." .