THE GREAT RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION HELD AT HAMILTON, DECEMBER 19, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 865, 5 January 1878, Page 2

THE GREAT RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION HELD AT HAMILTON, DECEMBER 19, 1877.

801 l up, roll up, good people all, I . .Of every rank and station ; Poor Hamilton's gone mad about, This " RaUway IMiuoMtration." There'i T. G. 5., " Surveying " all, i With spectacles on nose; v And K— n-y, with ", Bill of Sale," To see how traffio goes.' „•'.. Here's R — — d G c, our genial host, There's C- — de ; and" Jolly " H-r-r-y, There's White ; our little "Parson, too* The gayest of the gay ! Great and small ! on, on they press, Though, "Pull-backs," there are some ; Oh! what a crowd! and. still the cry Resounds, " They oome ! they oome !" Ther*\* tho whistle ! Now the train! , Gomes rushing like (slow) thunder ; Where's the champagne ? Lots drink To this, a nine days wonder ! [suoceßS, Aunxos'a Notb. — After" the intense excitement of the day, and m the,great generosity of their hearts, the Hamiltonians must have wished to acquaint their friends m the Antipodes with all the wonderful goings on, for, by twelve o'clock at night, nearly everyone was trying to stand on his head, and it mast have been a great' draw for anyone looking for cc s (heels). [The above was discovered yesterday, " vnder the pad," on the Editor s table.]