GOD'S OWN COUNTRY.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 25, 4 June 1892, Page 6

GOD'S OWN COUNTRY.

ANOTHEB POINT OF VIEW.)

} WithwpologiesU* Mr TJwsJßmoien, Give me, give me,' God's own country, ;(from aHspielef'Sipoint of view) Where the scripper and the sharper conjugate the«verb "to dpi!' Where the wild cat thrives and pros-

fers, ?like unto the green bay treej Where tbe biz. is managed chiefly

the'Of&cial Assignee. Glorious Auckland! Happy Queen^St., land of backsheesh and cornish, Where the Sharp-toothed legal shark assimilates the-smaller ifis Land of legal managers who scoop the pool (before the burst, (She survival of the fittest=±the sur-

vival of the worst.) Down to Wellington we travel, M.H.R. and;M.LC, Where we blue the hard earned dollars

of our bleeding counteree. Oh, they toil not, neither spin they free from worldly care and stfife, Oh, 'tis Heaven, nay Nirvana,, iia>the Upper House for life.JJ / On we go ito Canterbury where the ■:..;■■, equattah) lordly, grand Holds the fertile plains and valleys in

, the hollow of his hand. >Where the borrowed millions linger, (very shortly coming due). vWhere the merry mortgage playeth

. , havoc with the cockatoo. •^estland, Southland, grim Ofcago where, the Southera^jalei is borny Scenery youjhave, I grant you, but its < chiefly held in pawn. Mines you ha^e, with gold and silver, ..; in the south and on the west* \ : ; All producing chunks of bullion paying up the interest. !:

Men cash are tfree and h%ppy: landing on the Northern ■.■( Seeing not the chawed <up corpses »in i the quoadam^JLiberar'jjaws. ; ; Happier is the blythe investor who a div. or balance bears, When he say» good-bye New Zealand, ,fare>ye well ye-Southern Snares. .# * }' -.# ■ *' ■'. ;

All theitrees are .green and gorgeous, Mr.Bracken, I admit, Xankeedom can't lick the gorges, there is not a doubt of it, But while every prospect pleases in each sunlit seagirt isle, (Thank you, Bishop Heber) nearly every other man'is vile. \ Life is not a little picnic—chioken,! ham and scenery, >Life> is not comprised in viewing gorge and' bush and .greenery. 'Never mind the gorges, Bracken, as you wield your graceful pen, 'Tell us just eloquently your opinion; of the mm.

■Tell* us of the politician, past and present, blue and buff, Plague o' both your houses, say we, of the lot we've had enough. Gf-od's own 1 Country ismot mad© by sea and sky and^peaksof sdow, Heaven itself would 'be >makutued by some fellows that I know. God's own Country, Mr'Bracken-*m>ay 1 be so, as you affirm, ißut it's been leased to Nicodemusfora pretty lengthy term, ; Andit seems to me, between us, the latter's little game la to make negotiations for the {freehold of the same.

God's own Country! did you say, -sir? don't tell Mr Ballance that, j Heis rough on anybody owning «uch a large estate, ; Why|if -such a |thicg were .mooted, iKeeves, MdKenzie, IDick and he Would pass an act to tax the owners* i a hopeless absentee. , t