HONOURB EASY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 7 (Supplement)

HONOURB EASY.

by the Author of the bam BALLADS. . At the South African Prqduct/S Exh 1 - j bition m London last month His Majesty the- King conferred the honor of knighthood on the chairman, Captain Pieter van Blomestein .Bam. -A few days before tho British; Gqyernmjent had recqgnised Prlncie^ Rarijjtsinftji's clainfi to 'be the Jam of Nawanagar. In the relam that is never bereft of the sun, There is always a patriot's name to oe „.■'.'■ won, " :'--..'.-; J -_.-• " ,-:■ ; --,-; A.nd to prove that the Empire" is" Jar ;. _{ from-asham. /.;; Was the lifework of Pieter van Bio ns--steiri Barn. So, the day came at last, by the favor '-.-. of fate,; • "--"" -''-- 7-'r7- : -'-. . When his great Exhibition ' was opened .;''■■•'' instate, ''•-•'/■'''" '':'•'•. -: ; .'' : . And the pundit selected his Sovereign ■'■ '-to cram' •' ' :.--'^- v/as the talented chairman, van Blomestein. Bam. • Through the rooms he conducted the Monarch himself, • ' And m person explained every separate shelf; His statistics were pat to the tenth of a gramme, . As befitted the King and van Blomesem Bam. The exhibits were most of them bottled or canned, Ih a way y.iat the Monarch; could well .. 7 - understand. : '. Said the King, "You've provided my --.. -people with jam, ■-■■-. What can we give m turn to Pur wellbeloved Bam?" He replied; "With your Majesty's usual tact, ' You suggest 4 reward that is founded oi fact; - The Jam. of South Africa's just what - Tain.' -':'. .. - . ' -■'' ; - ; '• .-.-'■ ,; And the title would go very neatly with Bam." But Sir Garter; objected that, sweet' as they are, Two equivalent pots would be likely to ■;- jar:' ."•".•; -;' ■'-.. '""''. '■*"■ "For this season," ho said, "we nav-j just made our jam; We must do something else with Van • What's-his-hame Bam." The confusion that followed can hardly be told, For C.-B. was m bed with a fever'sh cold, And tho rest of the Cabinet cared not a . dram How the Empire rewarded a. party called Bam. Even Elgin had nothing consoling to sa'V Though his Winston had left hint m charge for the day ; It appeared that the door had been .hiit with, a slam On the earnest endeavours of patriot Bam. But the problems of State, though inscrutable things, Are as simple as daylight to competent Kincs; "On the knee .'" said King Edward : Piet dropped like a lamb. And arose up Sir Pieter van Blomestein Bam.