CHANCERY LANE.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 81, 1 April 1882, Page 41

CHANCERY LANE.

Pandemonium haunt of rowdies, Where a very rummy crowd is, Were your secrets all laid bare, What should we discover under That strange life of your's, I wonder, Chancery Lane ! Drunkenness and destitution, Dirt, disease, and rank pollution, Souls and bodies wrecked for gain 5 Yet we boast our education, Our enlightened legislation, Chancery Lane ! Parsons begging more provision For some distant foreign mission, With some strange, outlandish name, While your tribe of heathen dwells Within the sound of their church bells — Chancery Lane ! Ye poor ignorant benighted, Are our parsons so near-sighted That they pass you in disdain ? Are they too dainty and too nice To venture in your dens of viee — Chancery Lane ? They wear fine broadcloth, cat good dinners, Talk of saving fallen sinners, Caring naught for earthly gain ; Grentle souls ! are they not yearning To pluck these brands from. out the burning — Chancery Lane ? Christ-like, lowly, self-denying, Suffering, sorrowing, sinking, sighing, Leading lives of want and pain ; Their thoughts and efforts exercised To save the outcast and despised — Chancery Lane ! Going in the harvest-field to glean Some penitent thief or Magdalene, Like their Great Master, who was slain, To save, and succour, and subdue From Satan's grasp such folk as you — • Chancery Lane ! When in the last days you shall meet Before that awful Judgment Seat, Will He arraign Those men whose hearts afar off roam, And sec no heathens nearer homeChancery Lane ? Who build fine churches every day, Where wealthy sinners come to pray In goodly train ; Who preach in purring, velvet phrase, Unsuited to your rough, rude ways — Chancery Lane ! Ah, well, the Father of us all, Who seeth c'en a sparrow fall, To Whom all hidden things are plain, May have more love for you than they Who saw you perish by the way — Chancery Lane ! ATTTOMATHEB. Auckland, March 28, 1882.

It may interest the public to know that Partington and Co.'s mill is still going round, and that while wheat is going up flour is going down. Crawford's sarsaparilla tonic haer been recommended for 'nervous diseases, rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, liver and kidney troubles, and many other ills that the flesh is heir to. Only try a bottle. It can do no harm, and is almost certain to do some good— even if you have no complaints. On Monday next, the 3rd inst., Mr W. Dowden will sell at the Exchange Mart, Queen-street, 50 valuable'building allotments situated about fifteen minutes' walk from the City, on the. New North Boad. As this part of Auckland is rapidly going ahead, a fine opportunity now offers for a man with a small capital to make a home for himself for in a few years toao near Auckland wiU fetch ettomous prices. v -