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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 8 May 1886, Page 3

' ODE TO FLOCKTON. (Which was neither delivered at the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition nor written by Lord Tennyson.) PRAISE great Flooktos with on# voice I _ In hia welfare wo rejoice; To hia teeming store is sent, From isle, and cape, and continent, Far across the briny flood, Wares of china, iron, and wood, Works of subtle hand and brain • Pour in upon him thick as rain: Goods from every clime and zone, Flooktos, hold your own ! Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum Never in his presence come, And the world will ever see Flockton's strength and constancy, Which has made the old ’un great In our distant island State, Where the sea-bird flying high, Rubs hia beak against the sky, Screeching in the shrillest tone, “ Flooktos, hold your own 1 ” Flooktos in the days of yore Laughed at every rival's store, Careless of their awful din, Though they almost burst their skin ! Men that in a narrower way— Feeble imitators they,— Were but pigmies at the best, Who fumed, but only fouled their nest J Yet,, unaided and alone, Flooktos held his own ! ’ Sharers of his glorious past, All the world shall say at last, “ Shall we not through good and ill Cleave to glorious Flockton still 1" Flookios’s myriad clients call, “ Come, be. welded, one and all, Into one Flocktosias whole : One with Flooktos heart and soul; One man, one flag, one store alone 1 . Flooktos,. hold your own! ” ■

KENT-TEREAOB PRESBYTERIAN- ■ CONGREGATION. THE Rev J. KENNEDY ELLIOTT, 8.A., will conduct Divine Semes at the LYCEUM, Tory-atieet, TO-MORROW, 9th Instant, Morning at 11 a.m.; evening at 6.30 p.m, ” 129