THE BED ROCK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4807, 24 August 1894, Page 3

THE BED ROCK.

The following lines composed by MrE.M. Smith, M.11.E,, and published in Hansard are good—very good—for a Liberal legislator, but bad - very bad—for a lamplighter:— 21 Ik Hon. J. G. Wan!. Your high standing in commcrco And your great ability in linnuco Have long since marked you out for ■ fame, Far, far beyond thy predecessors That can by (his House bo named. "lis well thou didst thy financial _ armour Brighten up and don it on, Or, as sure asthenic I tell, UponlließankofNcirZcalaudlhcrc'd have becn'a run, And, a thousand chances to one. It would have jolly well gone bung, You played n bold yet winning game' Backed by the Liberal crew; You secured for the State a bank— We, the people's representatives, hold _ the key With a State bank at our command,' What cannot wc achieve? We can scale tho heights And sink the deep gold-mines, And shout, " Tho glorious Ward for ever!" We can span the flowing river, The streamlets and the creeks. . We can clothcall the roads with metal. And settle all the Crown lands. Wc can do all this and more than this, We can build our bridges of New Zealand iron, And forge our ships with Tarannlci steel. Then wo can plough the mighty ocean, And annex other lands to ours. Wc can hoist thcLiberal banner, And wave it o'er (his free land, And shout" Hurrah for Ward and Seddon, liecyes, Carroll, Cadman, and bold Jock McKenzic. And Jfew Zealand's daring and progressive band 1"