THE LOAN BILL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 274, 19 September 1896, Page 4

THE LOAN BILL.

Good sirs ! why should our-precious time In wearisome debate thus wasted be.

Does not our noble tongue supply con-

venient terms With which the skilful plenishing of empty chests May by a deft ambiguousnessbe discreetly

veiled ? Out on the shrinking souls whose puny minds Can find no torm but loan, wherewith to

,dub The little juggle of finance, which shall A withered purse with dropsied fullness swell. 'Tis not the good red gold that frights, ye

say. But the fell term of loan. Then here's

no loan. 'Tis but an aid', a grateful lubricant, To grease the creaking wheels of Public Works. A means to ease the lotus-eating Native of his land, And settle in his stead a band of husband-

men, Whose votes ihall show how right their colour is. The pigments, by whose use the artist will, Our natural theatre's old scenery so reuo-

v«te, That a full house of globetrotters may be

ensured. Or last, the metal which shall pave the

way To those great fields of gleaming gold, "Whereto I'll lead that gentle Syndicate, Of whose great interests I the guardian

am. Enough of argument, more Scarcely need I say, Ho ! my good wMps, now give your lashes play.

"The Bohemian," in Canterbury Times