Audi Alteram Partem. I.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 71

Audi Alteram Partem. I.

The tourist who travels abroad, gaily scattering the shekels so laboriously gathered together by the old man his father, speaks. The dear, kuickerbockered chappie has views on all things in the sfay above and on the earth beneath, totally guileless of the fact that he himself is the very be3t of all views when his spindleshanks aie silhouetted against the tky above, while he is atanding on tho earth beneath : It's a pleasant place, is Colic, to reside, One can -walk along the beach and watch tho tide, While the picnickers from town, On the sand, Strolling gentiy up and down, Do the grand! One can see the festive Maoris, blithe and gay, Getting down the steamer's side to sail away To the far-out, happy lands In the sea, T lth the mutton-birding bauds, Bold and free. One can view the mellow moonlight o'er the pines. Hiding scrub, and swamps, and stumps, and lawyer vines; And her beams are strang«ly bright (Not in town Does her lovely placid light Glimmer down). TT The stay-at-home grafter speaks— the man who has, to make money before- he spends it, and who must keep his hours, if he wants to keep his job and make it keep him. This " bloke " utterb a few words, and full of tiouble: All day I've listened to the sawmills' droning hum ! All night I hear the tin piancs' tum-tuni-tum' And the music C>) wild and v.eird At the hall Makes a fellow sciptcli his foeaid— Don't they bawl 1 It's a real, live Rob Roj's country. Miles away The great big stalwart p'liceuien iafely st.iy, So the half-baked lumps of boys Xiglitiy meet, Whistling piercing cut-calls. (Xo. = c Of big feet.) When the micro=cop*c sandfly Ul<e« a -p=t. To be fresh and keen next cirnms, wiin a zest The mosquito c ets to woik AVitli its sting, Sl'cddni" bio )d like any Talk — B-dstly thing l "Which authority i« right"' Pnlun-, aSir Rogr-r c!< Co\oi-'«>y hu.tfd op olio faii'ou--occasion, "" Much maj be >-aid on botli sic ! c =." — Little Jimjiv. March 29, 1302.