PARLIAMENTARY CHAFF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 111, 21 September 1868, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY CHAFF.

The ■Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times aayn that a good deal of poetry in flying about the empire city just now. And the Times of to-day contains a couple of specimens. On luckiug over our flies oi Wellington papers we find that " poetry" fa not the only form in which the Gorernment is assailed. Nor do the poetasters confine themselves to the members of the Governraen'.. The following have appeared in the Wellington Independent : — The following complimentary stanzas wera picked up on the flour of the House, tmd had well n'gb got the finder into trouble. They escaped oblivion by getting through the rent which the reporter should have paid his landlady, but which insists upon staying constantly at his elbows. We have iho besc authority for stxting that had the Speaker discovered this breach of privilege by which the said landlady was at groat a loser, he would have commit) ed the fluder to six months under (he Greenwood tree. Dedicated to the lion, member for Co — le — dge by his most submissive and truculent Too- look dar I Muraho Jumbo, the author. When Co — le — dge mustered her elect, She did not nuke her choice select. C.8., which ra- ans Colonial Bore — Her champion on his button wore. Known in the annals of Poksikii story; A knight well combed, and crowned with gl»ry But an unmitigated Tory, Who drank the stunt at erery halt— a Thorough-bred Englinh Knight of Mntt-a ! A wondrous coarse old man of Gath, Is the Companion of the Hath ; Who'd jesting ask, what Trooper Smith, When eaten up, was "seasoned with." Gruff toned, but unread Latin spouter, Like C— lton and Wat the Doubter, Wl»oM "spare the vanquished and reduce the proud," Go tell that to the Maori— not the crowd. Metbinka r gee thee, anxious, looking out Of good Dame C — sy's flannel petticoat. Friend of lamented Indian Canning, Thou should'st have been a mate for Mra Manning. A wanner berth than good Welsh flannel Shall yet be thine— 'yont Styx'a mortal channel, Condemned to flute untuned Mazurkas To hordes of devilish little Ghoorkas. Thy martial ardor then will need bo tougher — Exquisite, musical Old Buffer 1 !