To the Editor of the Auckland Herald.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 53, 19 February 1842, Page 1 (Supplement)

To the Editor of the Auckland Herald.

February Bth, 1842. Sir —ln the absence of graver matter, perhaps you may find room in your next journal for the following scrap:— •‘GEOGRAPHICAL ALLITERATIONS.” The brewers should to Malta go, The fools to rocks of Sciliy, The Quakers to the Friendly Isles, The farmers all to Chili. The little squalling, bawling.babes, That nightly break our rest, Should be packed off to Baby-lon, To Lap-land or to Brest. Cooks from Spit-head should go to Greece, And, while the miser waits, His passage from the Guinea coast, Spendthrifts are in the straits. Spinsters should to their needles go, Wine-bibbets to Burgundy, Gourmands may lunch at Sandwich Isles, Wags poke their fun at Fundy. Musicians hasten to their sound, All mendicants to Rome, And let the race of hypocrites At Canton find their home. Lovers should to the Cape Good Hope, To round Cape Horn in pain, Debtors should go to O. I. U. (Ohio,) Our sailors to the main. « Bold bachelors to the United States, Maids to the Isle of Man ; The gardeners should to Botany go, The shoeblacks to Japan. The quarrelsome, in Ire-land, will Find a proper level; The printer, when lie’s set these lines, May post off to the devil. Yours, &c. RIGDUM FUMUDOS. For the encouragement of the Maori muse we insert (he above.—-Ed,