PARLIAMENTARY RHYMES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 686, 4 August 1870, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY RHYMES.

+ The following, says the Wellington correspondent of a Taranaki contemporary, has been going the round of the House of Representatives, and is supposed to express the sentinlents of the disappointed members of the Opposition:— And why Btands Stafford idly now, Amazement gathering on his brow, Since Yogel gains the votes the while, ••And struggles through the deep defile ? What checks the soul of bold John Hall, ,<Why sits that plucky bird so small, . In action in such need ; And sees from out his fluttering band A Fox with accents sweet and bland, His chicks, seductive lead ? What vails Fitzherbert's cunning wile, Or J. C. Richmond's words like ile ? Oh Creighton for thy lance I Oh for one hour of Reader wight, . > . Or Gillies, skilled to rule the fight. And cry. for Auokland and our r'ght I Another sight would then be seen, If beads were counted well, I ween. -The following is from one of a series of 'rhymes which have appeared in a Wellington paper. They are generally understood to be the work of a Canterbury member :—- --,Npw let us leave theae northern' lights, and ."""'" q glance at Johnny Hall, -The hardest hitter in the house, although he " ~ " is but small ; .,'. For land laws, Weld, squatters, or sheep, he's ready for a fight, And, . like a modern . Hampden, stands up boldly for his fight. '' That is his right pre-emptive, as all Canterbury knows H|B7»ron rule o'er its tvide plains, his dream of ' '• • ' progress shows ; ' But John, with. Yorkshire cutenesa, not unmindful of the. poll, Now talks of flax and farmers, ani exhibits Malvern coal. How Hall has wprk'd the oracle Provincial records teach, And as .for -dodges — once- he swore that Stafford he'd impeach.