A NEW VERSION OF 'CLOUT THE CALDRON.'

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 72, 5 February 1859, Page 3

A NEW VERSION OF 'CLOUT THE CALDRON.'

By Fhiz.

BTa'e ye ony pots or pans, Or e'er a broken brazier ? For we are tinkers to our trade, And wish to thrive in Napier. As scant o' fitness as o' grace We're seeking for a billet, So tell the votei-s of the place We're come to clout their skillet. Napier, if ye ha'e work for us We'll dot to our contentment, And dinna care a single hair For ony man's resentment : — For, Province New, though we appear To every one as tinkers, Yet to yoursel we're bauld to tell We'll bridle you with blinkers. Here's Veritas, wha's changed his coat Tcho Alpha, not Joe Hume, ma'am ! Here's the Beardless-one o' little note And souple T- n too, ma' am ; .Here's grumphie Geordie Weathercock, - Who wants ane job so sadly ; Here's th' auld carle Jem wi' snawie.pow, And troggin pawkie Henry. — Sirs, ye appear right cunning blades, But this fine plot yell faii in ; My skillet new made mo by BaowifE Yell never drive a nail in : — So bind your budgets on your backs, Wi' me yell gain nae billet; D JMETT'S the man, and not you, quacks, And he shall clout my skillet. Napier, r Fob. 1, 1859. To the JEMtor of the Hawlcds Bay Herald. Sib., — I wish to bving to your notice that a Medical practitioner f-or the. Suburbs of Napier, is much required ; and, should any medical gentleman be disposed to consjktq Napier there is every reason to believe that he would get a fair share of employment in the Suburban District &c., as iho time of the one practitioner appears to be wholly .engrossed in the Town of Napier. ■" ; . ■ I have &c, ; ■~^'"- ' ' John Macaetut. j- Petane, : .. 1, 1859.

Per favour of the Haw&e's Hay Herald.

Sru, — Mr. Colenso states in his Tract No, 9 that he had been informed by a-; party carrying round tho Separation Petitip.n,' i th^Xj-eertain Biijalf&J^lets opposed to the movement r had -interdicted tiieir-work-people from.&igmag. We believe this stafement io be a grosß fabrication, and the bitfcec, comments fche'.Rsv. censor makes thereupon "shew how " willing he is to wound, . altho'.. airnrd,;.^©strike.' Ourselves, as a portion of'ihe minority who resisted the movement on the score of its immaturity, beg most emphatically to deny using any influence with our people, other than a simple statement of. our opinions, conceding to others the right we clatpi for ourselves, to wit, the liberty to exercise our^wh judgments on all questions. "We remain. Sir, Yours obediently, jg;;, Ch Woegan & Son-. Rua Taniwnff •' Jan. 23, 1859. To the Editor of the RawTce's Bay Herald. Sib. — Will you allow me a small space in your "open column" to offer a few remarks on the arrangements that have been made for tho ensuing rccj meeting, to bs held in March. General dissatisfap tion.is,iblt % .her.c "at -the race 00111*36 being fixed on so far from Napier, as it will prevent many persons from partaking in the approaching festivities. It is quite impossible for people having families to take them to the present course, nearly twenty miles from hero; and, uriless.it is altered, the stewards will find their subscription list much curtailed; and tho attendance at thoracs wretchedly small.

There h still tim?, although not too much, for the committee to call a meeting, to make other arrangements more in conformity with the wishes of the people generally. Yours &c, Eqttis. \