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»- ■ The Fiji Times publishes some raledicfo verses on the departure of Sir Arthur Gordi for New Zealand. Thej are bj no mea complimentary, and the Grst few stanzas gi a fair idea of the whole . — Not a $igh was heard, not » farewell cheer, As his Er pave the fligrjM f,>r starting ; Not a toady cocld squeeze out a crocodi fear While they went through the humbug parting. No concourse of citizens flooked t,> tl strand ; No public address was presented ; Not a kerchief was waved by a lily win hand. And there wasn't a saul that lamented. They solemnly bore him aw ( »y from tl shore, And the ryes of the people \rent aftor, But the only expression each couutenan wore Was a broml grin approaching to laughter. It was gri^f no douiit, to a cWrful uii^n It? sorrowful transports subduing, While the moral young persons from pri Aberdeen, Did the whole of the formal 800-iiooing,
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 17 January 1881, Page 2
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158NOT COMPLIMENTARY. Inangahua Times, Volume II, 17 January 1881, Page 2
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