STARTLING INTELLIGENCE. (WRITTEN AFTER GLANCING OVER AN OLD NUMBER OF THE LONDON "TIMES.")

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 557, 14 December 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

STARTLING INTELLIGENCE. (WRITTEN AFTER GLANCING OVER AN OLD NUMBER OF THE LONDON " TIMES.")

The Queen and Princess fiaatie Wrnt itrolling in the' park — They wore their ••al-gkin jicket3, With dretsts rathtr dirk. The Princess coughed a little — The grass was somo»b*t wet ; The Qnoeu exclaimed, with feeling, *' You've taken cold mv pet !" Un'ess the Times had said it,' I'd steadily relu-te To giro the sligh'e*t credit To inch astounding newi. The Prince of Wale* waa plaviua With little Albert VioHe pjare the boy a sixpen -", To buj some candy-stick ; Be ran to show hi* mother — Her Bojal High'nes'a *m\U 1 ; flajs she, « Oh 1 Albert EJwsrd, You'H reallj ipoil t!ie child." Unless tue Tim's had faid it, I'd stead ilj re me To give the slightest cradik To thii a^touuling ue«rs. Th» Premier ro^e at aeven, And breakfaited at eight— Bbme newspapers an-i letters Were laid beside his plate, Ht 1 read a brace of leaders, And once was heard to laugh — R** e Xg WM boiled precisely Three minutes and a h»!', ■©"nless the Timw h&d said it,' I'd steadily re 'ass To <jire the slightest credit To this astounding news. W. B.L;