THE GOOD TIME COMING.
There'B a good time coming, boys, A good timo coming; Election sliouts will vend tho nit, When Bealey quits his llonor'B chair, In tho good timo coming, Assertions may appear like truth, But facta aro weapons stronger; We'll carry Moorhouse by their aid Wait a liillo longer, There's n good tirao coming, boys, A good timo coming; Progress will supersede routine, When Moorhouse guides (he State Machine In the good time coming. Clear head and energy hoMl bring To make this pronnco stronger; Ketrenchment and Reform lio'll causa; Wail n little longer. There's a good time coming, boys, A good timo coming j A man of independent mmd, Impartial, able, wo will find In tho good tirao coming. Lance will go back to growing wool, To malic our ciports stronger: And Tratcrs study botany Wait a little longer. There's a good timo com'ng, boys, A good timo com : ng j Commoree and Fanning will revive, And Honied Men in troops arrive, In the good timo coming. Our Waste Lands scheme we'll keep intact . To make our credit stronger, Pre-emptive rights we'll keenly sift:— Wait a little longer. There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming j Abuses vr;H be swept away, And each job bear the light of day, Iu the good timo coming. Our Harbour Works and Tunnel made, To make the traffic stronger. And Railways will be multiplied Wait a little longer. There's a j»ood time coming, boys, A good time comiug; The Tariff wo will get revised, And beiter Fiscal Laws devised, Iu the good time coming. Moorhouse reform will stoutly plead, Afld right, not might, grow'stronger, The Pol'ing Day wi'l soon be hore Wait a little longer. Lyttelton, 22nd May, 1866. A, H.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1697, 25 May 1866, Page 3
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293THE GOOD TIME COMING. Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1697, 25 May 1866, Page 3
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