THE WAIKATO.
PROPHETiC QUOTATION FROM 'SEVEN SEAS.' Rudyard Kipling, in ' McAndrew's Hymn,' has the following lines which would appear prophetic of the experience of the ' Waikato.' The ' old Scotch engineer ' is made to say : — ' Mine at the last— when all is done, it all comes back to me, The fault that leaves six thousand ton a log upon the sea. We'll tak' one stretch — three weeks an odd, by any road ye steer, From Capetown east to Wellingtonyu need an engineer. Fail there— ye've time to weld your shaft— ay, eat it ere you're spoke, Or make Kergueleo under sail — three jiggers burned wi' s-moke.' This is, the Spectator remarks, the Tery ' stretch ' on which the Waikato has broken down. She baa more than ' three jiggers burnen wi' smoke ' in the way of sail, but not enough to do any good with. Let us hope she bas plenty to eat besides her abaft. On the whole, the quotation is moat remarkably apposite at the present time. Only ' the fault that leaves six thousand tons a log upon the sea ' is not the fault of the engineer in this case, but probably of the constructor of the Shalt.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XII, Issue 1756, 5 October 1899, Page 4
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