THE SALVATION ARMY AT OTAHUHU.
CHRISTENING THE NEW COM
MANDER!
Otahuhu is again looking up. Fresh eggs at '2s per dozen wero far too valuable to throw at tho Army, so thoy throw : Now, Mr Editor, is there a word in any dictionary stronger than rotten i If so please use it where I mado a dash : dynamite is not stronger. Hate is weak compared to it. A brutal, cold-blooded critioiue upon a poor devil of a poet is nothing near as bad. It was rotten—l mean tho egg; a compound of sin nnd devilry, seasoned with conserved pollution. It was as bad, or nearly so, as Chinese stink pots ! And as the army sang " Wash me and make mo clean," my heart went up in chorus, and I was afraid it wasn't going to settle down again in its proper place. But the army can throw big " aniens " at the devil, faster than ho can throw rotten egea at the Army! and tlie now lieutenant can console himself with the fact that tlie next shower of oggs roust bo fresher and sweeter than those which played such an unsavoury part at his christening at Otahuhu on Saturday night.—(CORRESPONDENT.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1888, Page 2
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