MOTTOES.
THE DOMINION. No need for Herald's college, or The learned, and-rthe rest , To mangle anciont coats of arms • , For the Dominion's crest. Hero is a motto, short am! sweet, Descriptive of her temper, Hor lively climate, and hor sons, "l'rima vontondo sompor."* (♦"Always first in 'bl.owingl'") WELLINGTON'S MOTTO. "Suprema a situ," though much overrated, Moans simply "boss city" when freely trans- • latcd; ' ' VVhilo boastFul, 'tisi useful, for plainly it shows Whence the prevailing ver-bos-(c)-ity flows. -PHACOPS.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 6
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