An Appeal Poem.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 86, 30 April 1895, Page 4

An Appeal Poem.

The following w«u to* £2OO prize ntly off« red by a h- ndicate* o Aaencan editors for i.ho h« sfc a, p-.-i to newspaper subscribers to pay np their arrears. The lucky and talented author is the editor of the Hocky Mountain Colt. Lives of great men off remind us, Honest men won’t stand a chance ; The more we work there grows behind us Bigger patches on our pants. On our pants once new and glossy, Now are stripes of different hue ; And because subscribers linger, And- won’t pay us what is due. Then let us be up ant doing, Send your mite however small, Or when the snow of winter strikes us, We shall have no pants at all. The population of New Zealand increased in 1894 by 2-06 per cent, New South Wales increased 2-80, Queensland 2*97, Western Australia 29*14 ; Victoria decreased 0*43. The population of Australasia is 4,153,768.’ The Shannon Farmer says : —On Monday a remarkable sight presented itself on the line of rails in the neighborhood of Tokomaru. Thousands of mice were seen walking along, and they made for the water when the engine approached. They were ’cute enough to return to the rails after the train had passed. One or two ferrets were seen, also scores of pheasants on the dryland and on the fence posts. Another peculiar sight was that of millions of spiders crowded on the fences or floating in the current. During the severe weather in London in January a Royal party enjoyed some skating on the lake in Buckingham Palace grounds. The ice, by the Queen’s command, was kept swept until it was like polished steel. The lake runs along Grosvenor place, and the people on the omnibuses running from Victoria to the Marble Arch had a good view of the Princess of Wales when figure-skating. Before she became the Princess of Wales she and her sister, Dowager Czarina, were two of the most perfect skaters in Denmark.