THE LAWYER'S POEM:.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 603, 1 April 1876, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE LAWYER'S POEM:.

dear Tillage I hare looted upon, thy face, . And I hare wen the beauty which ia there I know that penoeotn find a dwelling place , With tneell know thouhutno room for ear*, ilcnow tbou,h*"»t not rerj much of graoe, And ret I feel around me ererywhere, The influence of Beauty yet 'tis not All owing unto the* ob apob

I listen to the river mit roars, . Confined between itt daap green Watt* I I«h The curious shells, upon itt half seen «hor*t, And they will whimper of the far off s**, Down from above a little streamlet pours, Its flood into the river, constantly. \ Plow river ! Oh, life's emblem I to the sell, Which is the emblem of '•ternity. The blue gum gives thee Shelter from the /wind. And shade from the summer heat, but Oh! the duit Do^h play a.nart most ooVrardly and nnkind, And fills me always with a deep disgust. Fran, now, while writing, I am almost blind, The Board wi'l put it down, 'I hope and trust, Ai'soon as possible 1 But what a board It is ! All warped, bespattered, and all scored. You hare a brewery and as Yendy's says, The odour* tint come from it are., most sw#efc, But then I hare not seen for two whole days Exclusive sobernesi upon thy r stre.et ! Tbis is most sad, and on my conscience weighs For I should find a remedy to meet Such desperate case os this, or let 'lt run Until the Templdr* do it, or be done! " There's a Society where none intrudes" , — A Literary one, — withjn thy town ! A silen.ce " deep as death" upon ijt trods And dost flikes on it* books are drooping down. —There was a bridge, they say, befow the floods "But that" they add, " is like the rest," doo« Browne." { , , I've filled my space. I've lost mVknack df'thymt, You'll hear the rest, dear friend*, another timt. V ." .; •!

Tkn Angobi Goat. — ' Old Colonial" rsuMthe question again as to the adrisability of tht bidding of these animals and sayl : — "Darin; the lait ten years a yearly increasing attention bat bean given to tbe rearing of the Angora goat in the ßritiih Colonies possessed of aolimate suitable to that animal's constitution. The first attempts at acclimatiiing this useful animal did not promile 10 well at at one time it wa* expeoted they would ; but tbe results of later yean htfve gone far "to ihow that the Angora goati can not onl j be successfully acclimatized in various countroa, bat th4t they are very likely to prors Tory use* ful and profitable animals They are hardy, can iubiiit upon hard faro, and produoe a very superior hair, whioh commands a v«ry high prioe ia the European markets. During thelas,t two or three yean much attention .has beta given to the Subject in California, and at the present time large flocks ire, being grassd on ranohes where sheep were formerly kept. In a late American paper I noticed that on* , of th« owners of a flock of Angora goats, obtained from 75 cents to one dollar 25 cents par lb in New York for tbe clips of his goats. A price of from 3a to 6s per lb for clips of from 61b to 81b eaok goat is a large yield, and may well tempt others to prore the profitableness of keeping this kind of live stock. In ths latt annual, rtport of the biological and Acclimatisation Society of Viatoria, the following paragraph ooonrs :— " The Society's Buck of Angora goats is now at Mount Bute, the property of Sir SamueJ Wilson, and under ike careful supervision of that gentltman is becoming more valuable ever) year. The last dip brought a considerably higher prise in the London markets than mohair from Angora, a most sigmficapt faot, whioh shows t what can be done in this fin* climate by careful , selection. 4'here are mw a number of young male goati for sale at £5 5s each." A few years ago Mr fl Maclean, if 1 remambor correctly, purchased a few Angora goats which the old Acclimatisation Society owned. How haye they progressed with him? and what does thit eiperionoed stpok* breeder think of them ? If he would not oonsider me impertinent, 1 would suggest that he snould,prepare a piper on tbje subject, to be, read at an early meeting of the Cambridge Farmer's Club, of which he is the president. Tto •\s*'\' •noe of several ytars should enable him, to ,-fprm some opinioa as to their suitableness or other* wise to this part of New Zealand.